Alaskan Miners Want Answers After EPA Storms Mine

Possible violation of Clean Water Act requires body armor and guns, obviously

Some miners in Alaska want the feds to start digging for answers.

A task force including members of 10 state and federal law enforcement agencies descended on a gold mine in the tiny town of Chicken (pop. 17) last month, in what locals described as a raid.

"Imagine coming up to your diggings, only to see agents swarming over it like ants, wearing full body armor, with jackets that say "POLICE" emblazoned on them, and all packing side arms," gold miner C.R. Hammond told the Alaska Dispatch. "How would you have felt? You would be wondering, 'My God, what have I done now?"

Comments

[Mock-star]

You want answers? FYTW

[ant1sthenes]

Yes, I guess you could call it a “raid” when a group of people equip armor and weapons and head into a underground structure filled with gold, looking for trouble under questionable pretenses.