[TheRealThing]

So you got nothing on too large amounts getting into the water? You think this might be one of the reasons the coal fields have such a high cancer rate? Are you willing to take a chance, because of political leanings? Selenium is toxic at higher levels. Coal companies are not building these 50 million dollar treatment plants for no reason.

I think the evidence is 'doctored' by the EPA. The EPA is a stronghold of environmentalist wild-eyed zealots. Matter of fact it's a regular liberal playhouse. The same thing happened when ice cores were drilled down in the antarctic region and certain strata were found to have higher CO2 levels. The rush to judgement in that case was that high levels of CO2 leads to ice ages. There is no credible evidence this assumption is true much less that man made so-called, greenhouse gases could in any way contibute to such a vast geologic event. None the less because of such guesses, America is fighting for her life right now on the political and energy fronts. And they are nothing more than guesses, albeit educated guesses.

But, back to selenium. I know you are familiar with the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. Massive amounts of coal were burned during that era. Even more coal was burned from 1850 onward. Factories, generating stations, steel mills, all kinds of business and nearly every home in the US and around the globe, burned coal for heat during the winter months. If selenium is such a problem why, pray tell, has it only just recently reared it's head? Where were the cancer deaths of that day?

We needed to clean up emissions and other pollutants that were being released into the environment, and we in fact did clean those things up. But's that's not good enough for the environmentalist of this day. No, they have to punish man for his sins against 'mother earth' and cause the pendulum to swing back to a more pristine era. The EPA has become the Green Gestapo, and have adopted tactics which are surprisingly similar to Hitler's version. As I have mentioned before and if you're familiar with the Matrix movies, the EPA is like the Smith program, too much power and out of control.