Alaska’s Relationship of Convenience with EPA

The Red Devil mercury mine is a disaster — so much so that the
 governor directed his attorney general to ask the EPA to list it
 as a super-polluted superfund site.
EPA staffers are wearing neck braces from the whiplash.
The mine is on the Kuskokwim River and Red Devil Creek.
 In 1933, a 10-year-old boy discovered the deposit while berry picking.
Although once one of the largest mercury mines in the country —
it produced 2.75 million pounds of liquid mercury —
no investigation has been able to uncover its current ownership.
 The open pit mine has
 been closed since 1971, the profiteers long gone.
Yes, the profits of this public resource were privatized to corporations,
 while the contamination and cleanup was socialized to taxpayers
— to the tune of $10 million in public funds over the past 25 years
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