I’m losing track, isn’t this like the 14th time now?
Another comany coming to Texas I expect.
Rumor has it that they’re looking to move here to Texas.
Purchased 2 bottles at Wal Mart yesterday.
Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are public nuisances….why doesn’t Cali do something about them?
The change they should make is moving to another State.
Not quite as easy as moving a bank of phones and employees, but almost.
an old nasty acquaintance moved next to the Marmite plant in Burton and promptly sued the plant to stop the odor.
Second, it's not just California. Do you think the government regulates too many things? The law of odor nuisance comes from English common law. Many, if not most, states regulate odor nuisance by statute.
Here are Texas's State Odor Complaint Investigation Procedures.
The majority of the complaints came from 4 homes the article said. This small community is ready to let 4 homes full of people drive off a company that employs 200 during chile grinding season and 60 all year long? Idiots.
Come to NM, we’ll be happy to have the jobs!
The factory can be moved to Louisiana. We won’t even notice them.
Just bought 2 bottles last week. That’s a little over a 2 year supply for me.
THE key question is whether the city, and anyone else who’s complaining, reasonably could have foreseen these odors when the factory was applying for all the permits.
If not — for example, if the factory is spewing odors that are far worse than what reasonably was foreseen — then I actually agree with the city. I just find that hard to believe. Why would a modern factory, which could be located ANYwhere (hello, China), “fool” a city into allowing the permits, only to invite a lawsuit later by increasing the stank output?
SRIRACHA
NOT GUILTY!
The city of Iriwndale is not a “city” in classical terms, as the “community” consists almost entirely of businesses. To give you an idea, this “city” has a little over a thousand residents, and lots and lots of rock quarries.
Some of the individual businesses in the city have more employees on site than the city has residents.
Like many similar small, incorporated civil jurisdictions in California made up almost exclusively of corporate interests, the “city” of Irwindale is more akin to a protection racket than a community. The local politicians exist primarily to shakedown corporations in the area, and collect as much in the way of kickbacks and bribe money as they can get away with, all conveniently legitimized as “city revenue” an “pay raises”.
My impression is that this is not about a nuisance complaint about odor, but is instead about a business refusing to grease the right palms. You see, this controversy started just as soon as Huy Fong foods paid off a loan to the city that had been generating a quarter-million a year in revenue (officially) for the city of Irwindale. The city was pissed off that they lost a revenue stream, and that the company had paid the loan off early cutting the city out of additional accrued interest.
This is laughable. Nobody lives in Irwindale (population about 1,400). This is 8 square miles in the middle of LA that has more gravel pits than citizens.
Move to Texas - Houston area, specifically. Maybe it’ll overpower the smell of the ship channel - or the petrochemical plants...
/Besides, more jobs for us, less taxes paid by the owner, and oh yeah - easier access for us!
California State Sen. Ed Hernandez has said he would help Huy Fong Foods find a home elsewhere in the region if the company can’t resolve its differences with Irwindale.
It would be harder for Huy Fong Foods to pack up and move to, say, the Midwest. David Tran, the CEO of the company, is famously selective about the jalapeño peppers he uses in his sauces. The company uses a single supplier in the area and “carefully monitor the entire growing process from seed to harvest.”
