Caroline Fraser

What is that?

What's in that?

I mean, that's what happened with the SARCO.

You know, once the EPA had sort of got started and the various Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed and passed.

legislation about what you could do in the workplace, because, I mean, imagine what it was like to work in these smelters.

It just basically became illegal to operate them, and the companies could no longer afford to do it, so they all pretty much went out of business in the 1980s.

But it is just an incredible sort of time in America because it was like, well, what's the tradeoff here?

You know, the profits are worth much more than people's lives.

And that place, the Coeur d'Alene, you know, there's a town city called Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, but there's also this giant park.

Lake Coeur d'Alene.

And all that pollution from Bunker Hill, from the mines, from the smelter, it all went down river and is now sitting at the bottom of Lake Coeur d'Alene.

And that's been a Superfund project for many, many years, but they...

really can't clean that up because it's the kind of thing where you try to remove the sediment that's full of all the lead and stuff, and it stirs everything up.

And so it's really, really almost impossible to clean a lot of that stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's definitely the poor communities that get the worst of all of this.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

I mean, it's murder.

And that's why I called it Murderland.