Posted on 04/18/2018 5:02:31 AM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 04/18/2018 9:40:22 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet
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Send it back to NYC where it belongs.
How much does NY pay Alabama for the right to send their trash down there?
Is this true?
Surely something can be done?
A few hundred years from now, some will wonder about the extraordinary fertility of certain nitrogen rich areas in the South.
Isn’t the presence of that bio-waste a public health hazard? fine the proprietor of the rail line daily until this is resolved.
Money greases the skids, but sometimes it winds up in pockets and not public coffers.
And that, friends and brethren, is the epitome of the liberal contribution to civilization. Liberals are about as useful as a trainload of cargo nobody wants.
Just a big fat reminder that NY is an ironically blue state—and Alabama an ironically red one.
It all flows down to the fact that the Alabama has an attractive business climate and that allows industry in Alabama to steal business from Pro Union northern states.
Years ago, they tried to contract with several states in the Midwest to take their trash. Every state rejected their offers.
Hourly phone calls concerning “nuisance odor” into the State Environmental Commission would get it moved.
They’re bureaucrats and are tasked with investigating EVERY report. The whole office would be out there all day.
Nah...Maybe Arkansas would be better... it’s got to be second nature and a natural fact of life there.
After all-they DID send the most toxic human waste ever up North, didn’t they?
Where’s the EPA?
Why send it to Alabama, when New Jersey is right next door?
Surely the rail car is not the end point for this garbage. Is it supposed to be buried somewhere? Why isn’t that being done? It sounds to me like this town has a legal recourse on the company that let the rubbish sit on a train.
:)
“In South Carolina, a plan to store radioactive nuclear waste in a rural area prompted complaints that the state was being turned into a nuclear dump”.
Typical “crap” journalism, any truth in that statement goes back to the mid- to late-70’s. The Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980 dealt with this issue, back when Chuck Shumer was getting wedgies on the playground and not dictating how his side of the aisle shall vote.
The Barnwell radwaste disposal site in SC has been operating successfully since 1971 until this day, but the origination of the waste has been limited since the 1980 law was made effective (it filtered through the courts for a while). No new disposal site is being sought in SC contrary to this whackjob writer (un-deserving of the title Journalist).
BTW, that radioactive waste is in an engineered facility with a LARGE buffer zone to the public. Comparison of this situation to stinking rail cars parked indefinitely across the street from the community baseball fields is typical FAKE NEWS with a totally misleading comparison.
I don’t know which is worse. Trains full of crap or the liberal northeast invaders of the south.
True, but is that the real issue, or is it the smell of the human waste that is the issue ?
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