And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Plant officials sentenced to prison in LCP pollution case By The Associated Press Brunswick -- A federal judge has sentenced one former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Inc. official to 18 months in prison and another to nine months for their roles in what a government agency says may be the worst case of industrial pollution ever in the Southeast [US]. D. Brent Hanson, the Brunswick plant's former environmental manager, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, fined $5,000, given one year of probation and 150 hours Anthony Alaimo following nearly three hours of testimony Monday. James Christopher Dunn, a former assistant production manager, was sentenced to nine months in prison, a year of probation and 120 hours of community service. Hanson, of St. Simons Island, pleaded guilty in December to failing to report to the National Response Center a discharge of 1,056 pounds of chlorine release from the plant in 1993. Dunn pleaded guilty last May to discharging pollutants into the environment and to harming wood storks. Former owners Allied Signal Inc., ARCO and Georgia Power Co. have spent more than $40 million in the cleanup of mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls and other contaminants on the 550-acre site. The plant closed in 1994. Before the cleanup began, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, had called the area, which is now an EPA Superfund site, one of the most polluted in the nation. Alaimo decided not to fine LCP Chemicals-Georgia Inc. after federal probation officer Phil Lyons said it would hinder debtors who are waiting for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey to disperse cash from the sale of LCP's few assets. Lyons, who conducted a pre-sentencing investigation, said company documents indicated that Hanson knew how to report such spills, in spite of testimony that he had erred in reporting the incident to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Lyons added that Hanson could have left LCP when the environmental damage occurred, but remained to maintain his income. ''I deeply regret my role at LCP,'' Hanson said. ''If I had it to do over again, I would quit immediately. I was not brave enough to quit at that time.'' In handing down Dunn's sentence, Alaimo noted that he had discharged contaminated water from a 16,000-gallon railroad tank car into the marsh. EPA special agent Paul D. Okerberg said Dunn, who currently works in Rome, was cooperative in the investigation. ''I don't think he ever lied to me. He was very open and honest about what went on with that plant,'' Okerberg said. The three company officials convicted of numerous violations in January are still awaiting sentencing. Christian A. Hansen Jr., the former chief executive officer of the Hanlin Group Inc., LCP's parent company, was found guilty of 41 violations of federal anti-pollution laws. His son, Randall W. Hansen, the former chief operating officer, was found guilty of 34 counts. Former plant manager Alfred R. Taylor of Brunswick was found guilty of 41 counts. Alaimo gave Hanson 30 days to report to prison. Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
