Anyone that new about the risk and allowed this should get the death penalty.

They knew of the hazards in the early 1900's

I think maybe my cousin. My Grandmother maiden is Carr.

When were you born? Did you develop any asbestos related illness or cancer?

What does the EPA say now about it? Is Libby “clean”?

How old are you now and did you get any asbestos related disease?

Chris Thomas it’s supposedly been all cleaned up now.

I had been thinking of moving there. I didn't know that the whole town was so toxic. Thanks for posting the video.

There's plenty of other towns in Montana

Sell what?

If they've cleaned a lot of it up and it's not all up in the air it's fine

Smaller communities have a very strong attachment to homes and places where they were born.

@Allante715 , not entirely true. WR Grace separated the Asbestos from the vermiculite over the years and produced many asbestos products.

mady kelley I used to live in Libby

So did I. Mike Powers lives behind the house I lived in. His kids Mitch and Maria were friends of mine. My best friends dad worked at Zonolite mine. He would be covered in that dust when he came home from work. It killed him. Is beautiful in Libby and I would live there again.

Mady kelley: just because you feel fine now, doesnt mean you'll be fine in 30 years. That's how asbestos works.

+ionthegravity2 It isn't "ruby red." Democrats have won the last four governor's races in Montana, and one of their Senators is also a Democrat. Both their Senators were Democrats before 2014. So while it may be a "red" state in presidential politics, it's still competitive down ticket.

@@hotwax9376 when this cleanup was happening the Governor was Judy Martz (A Republican), who was at first very unhelpful and wouldn’t allow the federal Gov’t to make Libby an EPA superfund site because of the economic effects, but after sitting in on some meetings with the Libby community (who were all dying and living in a massively contaminated town even 9 years after the mine closed) she did the right thing and allowed the EPA to come do their thing and clean the place up. Asbestos is nasty shit, and even nastier is the company that ran the mine for 71 years (while knowing from the early days of the tremolite contamination) and wiped out every generation in that town, grandparents, moms, dads, uncles, aunts, kids, babies, teens, all of em. Most are dead or dying now. Vermiculite from that mine was put in an estimated 35 million homes, schools, and businesses across the US. When the World Trade Center went down it was full of Libby vermiculite, and most all of the emergency staff on site now have/had asbestosis, lung cancer, or mesothelioma. This situation fires me up, money over lives for 70 years. And the effects are still there. I have a 2,400 square foot house built in 1940, the whole attic is packed with it. If I hadn’t done an insane deep dive/rabbit hole into that mine then over time my wife, kiddos and I would all have gotten exposed bit by bit by me not knowing how dangerous it is to disturb it.

@@BrandonHoytOK, but my point remains: the state has elected numerous Democrats since then. Republicans just took the governor's office this year for the first time since Martz.

Go home commiefornian

Most of the people who raped Montana lived in New York or a big liberal city. 😄

@Jimmy James Worship that filthy useless rag all you want sir, but I will continue to hate and burn them. Thanks for proving the fruits of that idolatry is nothing more than wicked satanism.

@Jimmy James Best you can do huh? Cry me a river.