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166 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />• 13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />• 24 <br />25 <br />have not been able to keep up to the scale of the <br />disasters that are now occurring as a resu.Lt of <br />those contaminations, and there are others that we <br />are now uncovering even beyond those that ]: have <br />just mentioned. <br />I'm working extensively now with <br />farmers and ranchers and low income people that live <br />next to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal where there's <br />evidence of contamination of their wells by nerve gas <br />agents, and again these are emanating from pits that <br />were lined by clay that were -- that the Army at the <br />(time in the 'SOs claimed were state of the art <br />protections. <br />And these are the same types of <br />protections that Battle Mountain Gold is proposing <br />for preventing the leakage of these materials into <br />the water table here in the San Luis Valley. <br />So, you know, I think what you're <br />looking at is the concept of risk. Is this a good <br />company? Is this a bad company? <br />What we have to look at overall is the <br />state of mining in general and how it contributes to <br />environmental poisoning and to look specifically at <br />the gold mining industry and probably to look here at <br />Colorado at the success or failure of the mining <br />