$50,000 to clean up a 2 oz mercury spill

By Larrey Anderson~American Thinker

George Orwell where are you? Here is the headline in my local newspaper today: “Mercury Removal from T.F. [Twin Falls, Idaho] Apartment complex results in $50,000 bill.” That’s right – fifty grand.

Two ounces of mercury were found in the road that leads into an apartment complex. It cost local, state, and the federal governments $50,000 to clean up the two ounce catastrophe. Read the EPA report here.

The use of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) will soon be mandatory in the United States. And CFLs contain what? What? Say it louder: MERCURY.

You can expect the cleanup crew in the picture to be coming to your house – to help you clean up a broken light bulb.

Congratulations America. And welcome to George Orwell’s worst nightmare.

Update:

The EPA report states the amount of mercury was 2 teaspoons. An ounce is 6 teaspoons.  (Who knew? I thought a teaspoon equaled an ounce. Do not eat anything I have cooked from a recipe.) So the actual amount of spilled mercury was less than one ounce.

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