"By the EPA's own estimate, at that funding level the cleanup would have taken another 38 years, at a cost of $1 billion. The stimulus funds will hasten the cleanup by four or five years"
Did it take that long to pollute?
"Stimulus funds to hasten cleanup in New Bedford" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | April 16, 2009
NEW BEDFORD - Millions of dollars in federal stimulus money will be invested in a massive cleanup of polluted New Bedford Harbor, home of one of New England's oldest and largest Superfund sites, federal officials announced yesterday.
US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson came to the Whaling City to unveil the award of at least $25 million, and perhaps as much as $35 million - the single largest portion of the $600 million in stimulus money designated for Superfund cleanups nationwide. Four other New England properties, in Mans field, Lowell, Kingston, N.H., and Strafford, Vt., also received millions in funding.
"Today we are finally back on the road to get our harbor back," boomed Senator Edward M. Kennedy via telephone at a press conference that included Jackson, Governor Deval Patrick, and US Representative Barney Frank. Kennedy has been a champion of the harbor and pushed hard for the stimulus funds, designed to help jumpstart the ailing economy, to be sent to New Bedford.
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"This city has a remarkable history and we can finally say our best days are ahead," Kennedy said. Mayor Scott Lang of New Bedford said the money would extend work for locals and probably create "several dozen jobs."
Yeah, that will save us a we shed thousands every month.
Can you tell I'm tired of the fart-misting scam.
Today, the harbor remains a blight on New Bedford's fabled reputation as one of the nation's top fishing ports: The place where millions of pounds of seafood are unloaded each year is so deeply polluted that eating fish caught there is prohibited....
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Federal officials were able to get about $100 million from the companies responsible for the toxic pollution, but by 2004 that money was all but gone. Since then, the cleanup project has relied on federal funding of about $15 million a year.
So THEY MAKE the MESS and YOU CLEAN IT UP, taxpayers!!!
By the EPA's own estimate, at that funding level the cleanup would have taken another 38 years, at a cost of $1 billion. The stimulus funds will hasten the cleanup by four or five years, EPA officials said....
The New Bedford announcement also underscored a promised change under President Obama's administration: the reinstatement of a tax on polluting industries, such as chemical companies, to help pay for cleanups if the polluter goes bankrupt or disappears.
I'll believe the change when I actually see it, because he ain't changed s*** yet. He's breaking all the promises he made!
The tax expired in the mid-1990s and the money all but ran out several years later. If the tax had survived, New Bedford would probably have received money from it. Jackson said the administration wants the polluting tax to begin again in 2011, hopefully after the economy recovers. Other Superfund projects in New England that won stimulus money were...
I'm sorry; I'll grain of salt the environmental alarmism from now on.
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