The environmental candidate?
Posted on 04/27/2005 2:17:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Douglas rips Sen. Clinton on endorsement of tire burn
MONTPELIER, Vt. Senator Hillary Clinton is jumping the gun in endorsing a two-week test tire burn at International Paper's Ticonderoga mill.
That's the word from Vermont Governor James Douglas in a letter to the New York Democrat today.
Douglas says Clinton's timing was off when she sent a letter earlier this month to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation urging that it approve the test tire burn.
The governor notes that International Paper has yet to file an application for a permit amendment.
He says he hopes the company will consider installing new and improved anti-pollution technology.
The environmental candidate?
The environmental candidate?
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This charlatan will be the master of being anything she needs to be, at any time. Remember how she all of the sudden became a Yankee fan, or a jew -- prior to the NY election? We might as well start calling her the woman (?) of a thousand faces. Maybe her girlfriends would object to that...notice how the MSM NEVER shows her below her shoulders...they don't want to lose advertisers!!!
Smoke those tyres!!
follow da moneeeeeeeyyyyy
As soon as she received the bribe, she thought it was a "go."
I don't know much about this so I looked it up. It appears that it's right on the NY border and any pollutants would go straight in to VT. So, she makes her NY voting base happy and to hell with the environment in VT?
Here's what I looked up:
Burning tires also releases dioxin, which was recognized by the EPA in 1985 as the most potent human-made carcinogen known. Dioxin does not break down in the environment but builds up in the food chain, concentrating in meat and dairy products.
IP's Ticonderoga mill already test-burned tire-derived fuel in 1997. They tried to keep the results from this test hidden, because they showed significant increases in emissions of heavy metals and gasses, including:
a two-fold increase in the amount of mercury found in fly ash
a five-fold increase in the amount of zinc found in fly ash
increases in sulfur dioxide emissions
increases in the overall opacity of smokestack emissions
Thanks to Vermont State Auditor Elizabeth Ready for uncovering the data from IP's 1997 TDF test burn. See Drew's letter to the editor for more information.
I.P.'s mill is located in New York,
so it gets permits from New York.
However, the mill sits on the border of Vermont,
and Vermonters suffer most from the pollution.
I don't know much about this so I looked it up. It appears that it's right on the NY border and any pollutants would go straight in to VT. So, she makes her NY voting base happy and to hell with the environment in VT?
Here's what I looked up:
Burning tires also releases dioxin, which was recognized by the EPA in 1985 as the most potent human-made carcinogen known. Dioxin does not break down in the environment but builds up in the food chain, concentrating in meat and dairy products.
IP's Ticonderoga mill already test-burned tire-derived fuel in 1997. They tried to keep the results from this test hidden, because they showed significant increases in emissions of heavy metals and gasses, including:
a two-fold increase in the amount of mercury found in fly ash
a five-fold increase in the amount of zinc found in fly ash
increases in sulfur dioxide emissions
increases in the overall opacity of smokestack emissions
Thanks to Vermont State Auditor Elizabeth Ready for uncovering the data from IP's 1997 TDF test burn. See Drew's letter to the editor for more information.
I.P.'s mill is located in New York,
so it gets permits from New York.
However, the mill sits on the border of Vermont,
and Vermonters suffer most from the pollution.
Is THAT what this article calls RIPPING? If so...hillereee will have smooth sailing.
These must be the flaming tires that Dan Rather tried to warn us about!
yeah ,...Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton , climbing a mountain of tires
I don't get it. Is the burner in Vermont or in New York? If it is in Vermont, what the heck is she doing even getting involved. If the burner is in New YOrk, she should let her State regulators do their job.
That's pretty much it. Little if any of the pollutants will end up in NY, since the paper mill sits right on the western side of Lake Champlain, which is the border between NY and VT. All of the stuff will blow from west to east right into Vermont.
It's no skin off the butts of those in NY who issue the permits, since while the process starts on NY land it won't affect the area much, just the areas downwind, which are mostly in the next state over.
LQ
I'm sure she can work something out with her buddies Dean and Jeffords.
That is why the Federal EPA should step in. The border between NY and VT is also the border between Region I and Region II of the USEPA, so that should be interesting!
Last year, Hillary! and every other Democrat in Congress was ripping the President up one side and down the other about supposedly gutting New Source Review, and now she is pushing through a proposal to introduce a new polluting power source without so much as an application to the EPA.
This is obviously some kind of mistake. The beast probably thought the proposal was to "necklace" some conservatives, so cut her some slack!
Hillary is a mean spirited centrist with no regard for the asthmatic and autistic children of Vermont.
Where does Dean stand on this outrage?
What Tyson chicken river dumping?
We are considering this where I work (a competing mill in NY).
This is delicious because Hildebeast is up for re-election in 2006. Will sell her soul to upstate NY big business for a crushing victory over whoever the lame NYS repub party runs against her.
This, of course, at the risk of alienating the tree huggers.
This should be fun!
It seems to me that the State of New York's version of the EPA would require all emissions limits to be met at the edge of the property. I assume the edge of the burner's property is fully within the State of New York. I think you're right. The Beast is trying to win points with the electorate. Regulatorily, she probably has no real say in what the State Regulators do. Using waste tires as an alternative fuel source is very smart, as long as the scrubbers work really well.
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