The St. Louis Post-Dispatch earlier this month, but it is, nonetheless, disturbing given the ramifications of what is at stake. Both the landfill and the mine are EPA Superfund sites. The gaffe occurred despite the EPA announcing the Fredericktown stop in an online press release. Louis County residents to discuss issues related to the radioactively-contaminated West Lake Landfill site.
After the meeting in Bridgeton, Wheeler headed south to tour the cobalt mining site in Madison County, Mo. Wheeler and Republican U. Wheeler has continued the program. The Westlake Landfill was originally on the national priorities list.
But shortly after Wheeler announced the West Lake final record of decision in September , he removed the site from the priorities list, inserting the mine near Fredericktown in its place.
Remedial action remains stalled at West Lake and is not expected to begin for years. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has fast tracked the clean up of the mine in Madison County, which is co-owned by St. Down the hatch: Mining tycoon and environmental cleaner upper Stacy Hastie. Louis environmental clean up industry by making hefty contributions to politicians, sometimes receiving de facto, no-bid contracts in return that have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
Hastie bought the defunct Madison County, Mo. Randall Waterfield, an Indiana financier. Their company — Missouri Cobalt — says on its website that it will soon begin extracting cobalt, a valuable mineral now in high demand because of its use in the manufacture of smart phones, electric car batteries, and guided missiles.
