Posted on 08/16/2007 10:21:53 PM PDT by Libloather
IP Tire Burn Stopped! VT and NY Breathe Easier...
Published by jamiehenn, November 15th, 2006
After three years of public opposition, International Paper decided to abandon its efforts to burn tire derived fuel at its plant in Ticonderoga, New York. Huzzah! For the past two weeks, IP had been botching a test burn of the tires, hitting their maximum pollution levels burning only a fraction of the total amount of tires they wanted to. “I think that clearly the results demonstrated that there was a lot more pollution coming from the burning of tires than IP anticipated,” said Paul Burns, executive director of Vermont Public Interest Research Group. “That reality, combined with the growing public pressure, convinced company officials that they could not move forward. And that’s good news for everybody downwind.” Here at Middlebury College, we called off a demonstration planned for today and celebrated instead. Still, as we put away the champagne bottles, lingering questions remain: How did IP get away with conducting a test burn of tires in the first place? What are the longterm effects of the pollutants they already released into the air? and, How can we begin to reclaim control of our communities from multi-billion dollar corporations who threaten our health and environment?
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Victory in Washington, Tragedy at Home
Published by jamiehenn, November 10th, 2006
This week, International Paper (IP) began to burn tires in its paper mill in Ticonderoga, New York. “People are calling in tears that they can smell burn rubber at their homes and it is making them ill, causing asthma attacks in people who don’t even have asthma,” writes Barbara Ernst. At local schools, outdoor recess has been canceled because it is unsafe for children to play outside. After three years of fighting against IP, citizens here in Vermont are stunned that this could be happening, and happening here. We just elected a independent/socialist to U.S. Senate, New York state re-elected Hillary Clinton as their senator, and yet our children cannot play outside because of air pollution. And so, while we celebrate the Democrats return to our highest offices, we are reminded that building the society we want is going to take more than elections.
MONTPELIER — If New York environmental officials choose to disregard Vermont's opposition to plans by International Paper Co. to burn up to 72 tons of shredded tires at its Ticonderoga, N.Y., paper mill for a two-week test, Vermont will likely take the matter to court.
Gov. James Douglas and his administration, in cooperation with the Vermont Attorney General's Office, are prepared to exercise every legal avenue at their disposal, the governor's press secretary said last week.
"Gov. Douglas has asked the Agency of Administration to include a substantial appropriation in the fiscal year 2006 budget act for the sole purpose of pursuing our legal options in opposition to the potentially toxic tire burn," Jason Gibbs said. "The Attorney General's Office is looking into all of our options."
International Paper hopes to burn shredded tires to generate electricity for its manufacturing plant.
The potential legal action is a continuation of Vermont's two-year battle to thwart the company's plan to conduct a two-week test burn. The threat comes as New York environmental regulators anticipate hearing from hundreds of Vermonters opposed to the burn at the first public hearing on Wednesday. New York-based experts, citizens and environmental regulators will also testify.
The potential legal action is a continuation of Vermont's two-year battle to thwart the company's plan to conduct a two-week test burn.
The threat comes as New York environmental regulators anticipate hearing from hundreds of Vermonters opposed to the burn at the first public hearing on Wednesday. New York-based experts, citizens and environmental regulators will also testify.
Vermont has no official standing in the case, even though officials and residents from both sides of Lake Champlain have been weighing in on the matter since fall 2003. There's no guarantee that the 10 busloads of Vermonters who plan to converge on the gym in the Ticonderoga Armory Community Center will sway New York regulators. The officials conducting the hearing don't have to listen to Vermont's point of view even though the tire burn would take place only hundreds of yards across Lake Champlain from Addison County.
"In my mind, the biggest impact will be in the large numbers of people who will show up and miss their dinner hour to be there," said Brennan Michaels, a member of People for Less Pollution, a group that has organized a convoy of five buses to ferry people to the meeting.
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causing asthma attacks in people who don’t even have asthma,”
Stopped reading right there. Its for the children.
We just elected a independent/socialist to U.S. Senate, New York state re-elected Hillary Clinton as their senator, and yet our children cannot play outside because of air pollution.
and this:
“And so, while we celebrate the Democrats return to our highest offices, we are reminded that building the society we want is going to take more than elections.”
Now that's a revealing, chilling comment, isn't it?
The only logical conclusion to be derived from the set of facts set forth in your post is that we need to elect more Democratic members of Congress, and a new Democratic President, not fewer Democrats. Nowadays when the Democratic Congress overcomes R filibusters and other intrasigience to pass beneficial legislation they face a veto threat from Bush and delays in enforcement from the Bush-controlled EPA.
Once the bad-guy R's are dislodged our children and grandchildren will all be able to breathe easier.
Yep. Especially those that survive the drive-thru abortion clinics and universal HillaryCare. O be still, my heart....
Tort reform, Hillary. How much money do you take from the Trial Lawyer's Lobby?
Waah, waah.... we know how well socialists prevent air pollution, we saw it well demonstrated for decades in the appalling environmental blight of eastern Europe and the USSR. If only we could cover the socialist weenies of Vermont with all of the soot and particulates from the other 49 states... it’s the perfect solution — all of our nation’s air pollution gets neatly concentrated within the People’s Republic of Weeniedom, the rest of the land is free of air pollution created by our eviiilll economy, and the weenies can spend the rest of their days whining and whimpering about their plight (allowing them to feel as pompous and holier-than-thou as they have ever felt before). You could then move there, MM, creating a perfect win-win-win.
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