W.R. Gace a Disgrace - you Decide

The US govenment has taken notorious mining company, WR Grace, to court on criminal charges of knowingly allowing asbestos and vermicultte to damage the health and enviornment associated with its operations in Montana. Recentley W.R. Grace and DeQ was Made to Pay, but don't cheer yet, the State of Montana got the Money and NOT the Victims.

The victims who suffer are in all age ranges, and they continue to suffer and there really is no end in site. the Montana State Gov. Agencies let this happen and when the people started dying and there was public outcry, they sued, they came to the aid and guess what they get paid - BIGTIME for it.

W.R. Grace & Co. and seven current and former Grace executives knew that their vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana was emitting carcinogenic asbestos into the air, endangering workers and residents, but they concealed the information, according to a criminal indictment.

The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced that in addition to W.R. Grace, Alan Stringer, Henry Eschenbach, Jack Wolter, William McCaig, Robert Bettacchi, O. Mario Favorito, and Robert Walsh, all current or former employees of the company are named in the indictment.

They are charged with conspiring to conceal information about the hazardous nature of the company's asbestos contaminated vermiculite products, obstructing the government's cleanup efforts, and wire fraud. The defendants will be arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Leif Erickson at the federal courthouse in Missoula.

And when years later, lives are lost
and victims still suffer there is a Supposed Settlement
the Victims Get NOTHING...

Check out this Topic, as thorough as you can and than come back here and comment or go to our Trial By Blog Forum at www.TrialByBlog.net

http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1660

http://libbymontananews.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2147140%3ATopic%3A23

Chronology of Event from DeQ
http://www.deq.state.mt.us/Libby/wrgracetimeline3113099.asp

Other Links, News and Resources

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/08/25/news/mtregional/news03.txt

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DB1F3CF93AA15752C0A961948260

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080401/judge-bars-njs-800m-suit-against-grace.htm

http://www.mesothel.com/wrgrace/wrgrace_again.htm

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/uncivilaction/grac19.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/uncivilaction/lib18.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/uncivilaction/zon18.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/uncivilaction/lib19.shtml

Montana Let This Happen, Montana Continues to Let this Happen....

Medical records, death certificates, doctors in five states and the miners or their survivors say at least 192 have died and at least 375 more have asbestosis or cancers from the lethal, microscopic fibers.
Most of them contracted the terminal diseases years ago, when the mine spewed more than two tons of asbestos a day into the air, six days a week, in a fine white dust that settled over the mountainside and often carried into the town of Libby.
But Libby's nightmare did not end when the W.R. Grace Co. closed the mine in 1990.
For one thing, asbestos-related diseases take a long time to develop, so cases from earlier exposure will continue to crop up for decades.
But now, as more and more cases are being diagnosed in this little northwest Montana mountain town, some townspeople are finding questions none of the government agencies has dared to seek answers for:

Are the tons of asbestos debris from the mine still killing people?
Are people being exposed today, breathing in death sentences that will be carried out halfway into the next century, after decades of agonizing illness?
Are there dangerous levels of asbestos in the air, in the ground, in the waters of the Kootenai River?

Are the children and grandchildren of the sick and dying, who never saw the mine in operation, going to die from its legacy?

'Big-time pollutants'

The mine on Zonolite Mountain is dormant, its buildings dismantled. The stacks that poured out so much dust are gone. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has already given Grace back $400,000 of its $467,242 reclamation bond. The bond, which the state called "woefully inadequate" 25 years ago, was supposed to cover the costs of restoring the property to an environmentally safe level if the company had gone belly up.

The state says Grace spread yellow sweet clover and grass seed and planted 150 pine seedlings on each acre of the mine it reclaimed. Some have taken hold along the top of the mountain. But only a scant stubble covers the pinkish waste of the tailings pile, where thousands of tons of mine waste and asbestos dust were dumped. A web of gullies has eroded the pile.

Even if you did not use Vermiculite in Your Garden, you did not work at the mines, play in the ball fields or the water, your dad (most likely) came home with the dust on his clothes unknowingly and the VERY air you breath had asbestos in it. W.R. Grace and the State of Montana Let it Happen for the Sake of Good Jobs, for Hard Working Montanans... WHAT ?

Isn't their Life Worth ANYTHING ?

Montana Continues to Let Companies Like W.R. Grace
Do as they please with our land, water, and air.

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"Quit Critisizing , Condemning, and Complaining, we are here - work with us...
it is in the above video, did you see the look on the guys face when she said it
I thought he was respectful and elegant, she was HARSH, Cruel and DisGRACEful...