CREWS ACCIDENTALLY REMOVE PART OF NY'S OLDEST FORT (Environmentalism Destroys)

New York Post ^ | August 14, 2009

[nickcarraway]

Crews dredging PCBs from the Hudson River on Friday ripped away remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America, a mistake that incensed local officials who had feared the cleanup project would damage such relics in the area.

Neal Orsini said he was awoken around 4 a.m. by the sound of dredging along his riverside property in Fort Edward, 45 miles north of Albany. Orsini said he later discovered that the dredgers had torn out the riverbank, along with two wooden beams that had been part of the original fort's waterfront bastion. A third beam was later found still buried at the site.

[wastedyears]

Environmentalist weenies pwn’d

[FlingWingFlyer]

Congratulations to the liberal envirowackjobs!

[Kirkwood]

I can’t help but think that all that dredging stirs up the PCBs and sends them further downriver.

[allmost]

The work was halted for several days this month after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified the company that PCB levels downriver from the dredging were above federal drinking water safety standards.

That's exactly what it does. It was essentially encapsulated on the bottom.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Whoever made this mistake should be held professionally and personnaly responsible.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

You know that they are glad they destroyed it.

They look at the fort as part of that dead-white male construction that destroys the planet.

[Onerom99]

Breaking News: 235 year old fort destroyed! The planet survives! No reports injuries!

[hatfieldmccoy]

More evidence of the failure of single payer government run fort care....

[hatfieldmccoy]

More evidence of the failure of single payer government run fort care....

[hatfieldmccoy]

Oh no it’s the dreaded impatient left mouse button click DOUBLE POST!

[OneWingedShark]

Come now, old chap, it was a BRITISH fort... isn’t it high time we let go of those relics and acted like our own country? [/British-accent]

[GVnana]

300 years of history washed away by the EPA.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Come now, old chap, it was a BRITISH fort... isn’t it high time we let go of those relics and acted like our own country? [/British-accent]"

oh great

Now we get to replace it with a fort "made in China" ....

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Breaking News: 235 year old fort destroyed! The planet survives! No reports injuries!"

Surely a fish must have died somewhere as a result of the fort being destroyed.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Pull out the remaining beam, and next July 4 use it all as fuel for a bonfire!

[LittleMoe]

Blame it on Obama. He has it in for the British

[OneWingedShark]

Nah... Cuba.
The 0ne has to support his friends, right?

[GOPJ]

Union workers, right?

[Rembrandt]

“Whoever made this mistake should be held professionally and personnaly responsible.”

What did that sign on Harry Truman’s desk say? The buck stops at Joe Biden’s desk?