G.E. Commits to Dredging 43 Miles of Hudson River

NY Times ^ | October 7, 2005 | ANTHONY DePALMA

[neverdem]

This will probably have unintended consequences and become a fiasco. I hope I'm wrong.

[msnimje]

Drudging? Does Matt know about this?

[GladesGuru]

Vain hope.

[Brilliant]

Of course it will. The PCBs will become suspended in the water, and then the lefties will sue GE because they dredged it.

[xcamel]

The Shadow Knows..(corrected headline)

Government Extorts G.E. Into Paying for the Destruction of 43 Miles of Clean, Pristine, Hudson River.

Self encapsulating PCB's to be released in swirling muck all the way to NYC.

[sgtbono2002]

Somebody please tell me if I am wrong. The PCB's are lying on the river bottom. Probably pretty harmless because they are sediment and just laying there. Now when they start dredging, they will stir up the bottom and silt wil be washed downstream expanding the contaminated area. Making things worse. Then just what are they going to do with the tons of silt that doesnt wash downstream? Sometimes if it aint broke , dont fix it.

[Rodney King]

There are so many angles to this.

First, the government gave GE permission to dump the PCB's in the first place. What GE did was legal and permissable. After the fact, society changes and decides that it doesn't want the PCB's. Who should pay, GE, or Society?

2nd. GE has made the argument that leaving the PCB's is safer than stirring them up. I don't know if that is true or not, but the same damn environmentalist who say dredge them up won't allow dredging of New York harbor because of the environmental damage they think dredging will do

All this suggests the main motivation against GE is just a shakedown.

[dsc]

"All this suggests the main motivation against GE is just a shakedown."

We have a bingo.

This looks like a really stupid move to me.

[You Dirty Rats]

"All this suggests the main motivation against GE is just a shakedown."

A shakedown without a benefit. Typical liberal attitude -- through tons of money at a "problem whether or not it will help.

[the invisib1e hand]

it's a deep pocket grab. some unions somewhere cooked this up and some politicos went with it. sickening. ought to make for some interesting marine engineering, though.

[GladesGuru]

" "All this suggests the main motivation against GE is just a shakedown."

A shakedown without a benefit. "

There is a major benefit from the Communism Lite perspective. America wastes the total amount of money in the settlement because the premise of the action is false.

If you are trying to handicap or destroy America - and they are - then you do it one industry or one large company at a time.

[neverdem]

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[Claytonbridge]

Lest we forget...the asbestos fiasco.......another attorney welfare project!

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Bad move, GE. You are just feeding the alligator.

[headstamp]

From what I understand the PCB's are buried now after many years in river bed sediment. This dredging will stir the whole damned riverbed up again and put the PCB's back into suspension in the water.

This will take years and the PCB laden sludge will be dumped on land and numerous sites along the river. I'm sure local residents near this sludge dump will just love it.

This also doesn't take into consideration the possibility of high water during during a heavy snow melt or high rainfall just waiting to cause a disaster for any means of control over the situation.

If the enviros are worried about the PCBs now they haven't seen anything yet once the digging starts.

The blatant stupidity and waste of money involved in this project is mind boggling.

I can't wait to see the news stories on this undertaking as it progresses in the years to come. We'll have our very own "Big Dig" fiasco.

[carumba]

They ought to prospect the silt for gold dust, throw the fish back, and no mercy for the crawdads.

[dsc]

I'm interested in those subjects, but I'm not about to register on the NY Slimes site.

[GladesGuru]

Who does? Register, that is.

Try getting a password from www.bugmenot.com.

At one paper, the password: bugmenotjunk@hotmail.com worked, followed by the user: ID bugmenotjunk.

Using it means they can follow basic orders, like "BUG ME NOT!!!

:-)

[G-Man 1]

Do PCB's have a chemical life? If so ,it should be deteriorating after these years. Maybe it would be better to just let it lay and dissolve into a harmless chemical.

[HamiltonJay]

LEAVE EM ALONE!!!

PCB's end up burried by new sedement and are best left be.

Dredging is just going to put them back into the water.