SHIPROCK, N.M. (AP) — Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is touring the Navajo Nation to get a firsthand look at the damage caused by 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater that spilled from a Colorado mine.
She met with Navajo President Russell Begaye on Tuesday to hear what he saw when he visited the mine in August, just days after a crew working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unleashed the waste tainted with heavy metals.
Brockovich helped investigate a major case of groundwater contamination in California in the early 1990s that inspired the Oscar-winning movie “Erin Brockovich.”
She and Begaye will be meeting with farmers throughout the Navajo Nation to discuss the effects of the spill on irrigation. Brockovich called the spill a preventable environmental disaster.
Source:: ap.org