A Halloween Tale: Costerfield Treated to Government Tricks

Costerfield Treated to Government Tricks

a halloween tale by Jane Harris

Once upon a time, on a fine autumn day in March, a government denied the presence of “spooky dust” coming from the mysterious mine crusher in Costerfield; a cocktail of antimony, cadmium, arsenic, lead and fumes was lurking and spreading about the nearby town.

The Department of Health said not to worry about this treat. It’s only a cocktail of antimony, cadmium, arsenic, lead and fumes and declared: “There’s no immediate risks”.

Everybody did their best, denied the ill-health effects and blamed Mother Nature for the high level of antimony and yet they saved their best efforts for hiding the “spooky dust” coming from the mysterious site.

Residents’ elevated urine antimony tests results arrived, heavy toxic metals in lamb autopsies, antimony levels rising in water and soil. “There’s no immediate risks,” the Department cried. “Just drink bottled water. That will do the trick!”

From March to Halloween, the government and the regulators and the mine denied the presence of the “spooky dust” and its health effects on Costerfield and nearby towns.

And now, the government want to perform lamb autopsies around Costerfield, but not anywhere else. Is this another trick?

Costerfield residents deserve a clean and pristine environment, no more “spooky dust” – this would be a fine treat!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!