{"id":2495,"date":"2011-01-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/using-sludge-to-build-better-communities-matt-flumerfelt.html"},"modified":"2011-01-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:00:00","slug":"using-sludge-to-build-better-communities-matt-flumerfelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/using-sludge-to-build-better-communities-matt-flumerfelt.html","title":{"rendered":"Using sludge to build better communities –Matt Flumerfelt"},"content":{"rendered":"This LTE appeared in the VDT 18 Jan 2011. -jsq\n
\n\n<\/a>\nI was recently reading “Masterpieces of Eloquence,” which includes a\nspeech delivered by the fourth Earl of Chesterfield to the House of Lords in\nFeb., 1743. “The bill now under our consideration appears to me to deserve a\nmuch closer regard than seems to have been paid to it in the other House,\nthrough which it was hurried with the utmost precipitation, and where it\npassed almost without the formality of a debate. Nor can I think that\nearnestness with which some lords seem inclined to press it forward here\nconsistent with the importance of the consequences which may with great\nreason be expected from it.” He goes on to say, “surely it never before was\nconceived, by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs,\nto raise taxes by the destruction of the people.”\n

\nI find this quote applies exactly, mutatis mutandis, to the present\nsituation. The effects of these toxic chemicals are far more devastating to\nmy mind than the effects of gin. The science panel assembled by Michael is\nmore credible than the assurances of the industrial authority expert. In\nfact, the emissions from the plant are so close to the permit threshold that\nthey could easily exceed that threshhold on occasion. Would the IA expert\nthen continue to hold the position that there is “No health hazard to the\npublic?” I don’t think anyone who favors the proposal is aware of the\nenormity that could result if the plant goes into operation. They have left\nthe public health out of their equation. They have just enough science, they\nthink, to push the deal through over the objections of an easily deceived\npublic.\n

\nMatt Flumerfelt\n
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