At Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:15:05 EST, you wrote:
>
>Unfortunately many people aren't capable of taking care of problems like these
>on their own, and if these problems were left to the individuals who are being
>affected by these sites, little to nothing would ever change (considering the
>few people in this world who actually have the motivation to make a change).
>These toxic sites were, and are still being made by companies' harmful
>chemical wastes, and while many of these companies are long gone, new
>companies are still producing. And we shouldn't have to deal with their
>messes, or foot the bill for the cleanup of them. That's why NYPIRG is
>working on passing a bill to have the companies pay a front end fee on their
>toxic raw materials that would replenish the superfund with their money, not
>ours. And right, you shouldn't have to pay for our problems, and we shouldn't
>have to deal with yours, that is also why their are separate state PIRGs,
>specific ones to deal with specific local problems. So you out in Marion
>County do not have to deal with our problems here in NY.
>
>
We in Pensacola have been having problems with the local Champion paper mill. Their
dioxin-laced wastewater, a result of the chlorine bleach process (for which they have
continuously been granted variances, i.e. special licence to pollute beyond what the
law would otherwise allow), has effectively shut down bioprocesses in Perdido Bay. As
a result of public outcry, they are now planning to pipe this wastewater into the
Escambia River system. John Kennedy Jr. has arrived here to help midwife the birth of
a local chapter of Riverkeepers to fight this move, and to force Champion to (a)
switch to oxygen bleaching, a less toxic alternative to the dioxin-producing chlorine
process, and (b) to institute a closed-loop process, with cleansing/filtering and
recycling/reuse of their wastewater.
>
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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