"PCB-tainted sludge bound for West Texas" by Betsy Blaney, Associated Press | June 22, 2009
LUBBOCK, Texas - Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York’s “pay toilet.’’
They argue that burying dirt so toxic that
But SOMEONE will have gotten PAID!
But for 15 new jobs and the little bit of money it’ll bring local businesses, the folks who live near the site are willing to take the risk of tainting the area’s ground water by taking out somebody else’s trash.
So this is what Amurkns have become, huh? WILLING EATERS of SHIT!!!!!!!
I mean, you are already getting doses of it in newspapers, 'murkns. WTF?
“The city is not against it and the city is not in an uproar,’’ said Matt White, mayor of nearby Eunice, N.M. “It is a big impact on our city and definitely positive.’’
The deal has the blessing of officials in both states, and New York environmental groups say it will substantially lower the risk of PCBs - a likely carcinogen in high doses in humans - getting into the food chain. White said the process is completely safe and there’s no risk to Eunice’s 3,000 residents.
Government said?
The company that operates the disposal site, Waste Control Specialists, stands to make tens of millions of dollars, according to a company spokesman.
A guy told me that's owned by the mob.
PCBs are a family of chemicals used as coolants and lubricants in electrical transformers before they were banned in 1977. GE plants discharged waste water containing PCBs into the Hudson River over several decades.
Yeah, town west of here had the same problem!
Waste Control plans to bury the tainted soil on top of 800 feet of clay and to cover it with plastic lining and uncontaminated soil.
Why am I not feeling to good about that?
Ordinarily, the clay would prevent the PCBs from seeping into the ground water below. But critics say the clay underlying the storage site has cracks.
You stoo-pid Texans deserve to be poisoned!
Glenn Lewis, 61, a former technical writer with the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality, said geologists studying the site had recommended Waste Control not be licensed to dispose of the low-level radioactive waste after discovering problems with the clay, including holes and fissures of various widths.
But the TOWN FATHER'S IGNORED HIM, huh?
Yup, GOVERNMENT LOOKING AFTER the PEOPLE AGAIN!!!
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Btw, it ain't just Texas:
BARNWELL, S.C. - Thousands of people from some of South Carolina’s most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs that involve cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex.
Some of the 2,000 people at a job fair in Barnwell this week say they don’t mind that the job entails cleaning up nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site. They say the economy is so bad that just about any job sounds good.
That's what we HAVE ILLEGALS for, right?
Officials are looking to fill thousands of positions available as a result of $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds. Funding for the jobs runs out in 2011....
Pfft!
You know, CRAP like THIS POLLUTION are the REAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT, not non-existent fart-misting!
--more--"I am REALLY FEEELING DEJECTED about Americans right now.
They have been SO REDUCED from the PROUD and INDEPENDENT PEOPLE they once were.
Now they will ACCEPT a BOWL of POISONOUS S*** as long as it has a cherry on top.
