09-16-2004, 07:26 AM
because of federal government insentive for corporations to move thier poluting activities out of the contry as apost to ensentives for corporations who will spend the money on finding methods of proper disposal or finding a useful product for waist or recycling waist michigan has been reluctant to pass any real laws that are enforcable.
the largest of problems are local manisupalities allow corporations to carry on with this type of activity for years paying only a fraction of the cost of properly handling of said waist in under the table buy offs and in some cases over the table miniscule fines that wont cover the cost of cleaning up the waist dumped.
our federal government needs to set the standards and pass a down river law which any town in the down flow of another town that allows these corporatons to operate above the law knowingly or not be able to hold the upper city financialy responcible for the escape of toxins. I beleive that this and charging corporations large tarrifs for moving out of the contry will change the way american corproatons handle their toxic waist.
this has been my pet peve for the last 20 years. if I try to do any thing about in my home town I become the target of ridicule... if this is ever to realy have a solid corse of action it has to come from the top down and not from the bottom up.
there was a similar incident back in the early 50 with a little known but widely used chemical called "DDT" It took nearly 25 years before the federal government took action against the use of this chemical. and all this time it was proven to cause birth deffects change wild life habbits and was the number one cause of the decline of the bald eagle in the state of michigan. the eagles egg shells were so thin that when the egles attempted to incubate them the eggs would crack and die from being moved around and turned. many of those that did live long enough to be born were born with crippling deffects and they too died. of those that were able to survive and nest on thier own had to deal with shortened life spans due to arthritic simtoms due to week bone structure at an early age.
michigan knew this for 30 years, yet when the proffesor at msu spoke out about it in the 50's he was nearly thrown out on his ear for even speaking about it. the chemical corps threatened to pull funding for the collage if they kept this proffesor on.
In fact the collage had all ententions of canning the good proffesor untill the federal government gave the collage a grant to determine with out a shadow of a doubt that DDT was in fact harming our environment.
it would seem that when it comes to what is good for us we and the rest of this planets inhabitants are placed behind what is best for corporate pocket books.
dont get me wrong I want to see corporate make lots of money so they can get me out of poverty. I just want them to do it responcibly. I beleive there is money to be made developing methods of handling the waist productively. I also beleive many waist material could be changed to other non haserdous materials in the manufacturing industry.
it is
to think that my aunt and unkle and their three girls are all dieing of cancer because my unkle worked in the paint shop of ford motor company for 30 years.
that plant was allowed to dump out behind its plant for all them years plus and it wasnt untill the late 80's when the city that the plant where my unkle worked was finned 1 million dollars per day till they stopped dumping behind the shop.
clean up well that is not going to happen. a lot of it went down a dranage ditch to the huron river on down to the detroit river and in to lake erie...
so you can see why we realy need a federal standard to handle this problem....
good artical, thanks for bringing it to attention.... and lets hope the right people get a chance to read this post, it realy is to our benifit to act sooner rather than later and pass the bill on to our kids. I mean are they realy that rotten and spoiled that they diserve to live in a slime hole and have to foot the bill? granted alot of the bill was handed down to us, the diffence is we know what we are doing they didnt back then... or did they?
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the largest of problems are local manisupalities allow corporations to carry on with this type of activity for years paying only a fraction of the cost of properly handling of said waist in under the table buy offs and in some cases over the table miniscule fines that wont cover the cost of cleaning up the waist dumped.
our federal government needs to set the standards and pass a down river law which any town in the down flow of another town that allows these corporatons to operate above the law knowingly or not be able to hold the upper city financialy responcible for the escape of toxins. I beleive that this and charging corporations large tarrifs for moving out of the contry will change the way american corproatons handle their toxic waist.
this has been my pet peve for the last 20 years. if I try to do any thing about in my home town I become the target of ridicule... if this is ever to realy have a solid corse of action it has to come from the top down and not from the bottom up.
there was a similar incident back in the early 50 with a little known but widely used chemical called "DDT" It took nearly 25 years before the federal government took action against the use of this chemical. and all this time it was proven to cause birth deffects change wild life habbits and was the number one cause of the decline of the bald eagle in the state of michigan. the eagles egg shells were so thin that when the egles attempted to incubate them the eggs would crack and die from being moved around and turned. many of those that did live long enough to be born were born with crippling deffects and they too died. of those that were able to survive and nest on thier own had to deal with shortened life spans due to arthritic simtoms due to week bone structure at an early age.
michigan knew this for 30 years, yet when the proffesor at msu spoke out about it in the 50's he was nearly thrown out on his ear for even speaking about it. the chemical corps threatened to pull funding for the collage if they kept this proffesor on.
In fact the collage had all ententions of canning the good proffesor untill the federal government gave the collage a grant to determine with out a shadow of a doubt that DDT was in fact harming our environment.
it would seem that when it comes to what is good for us we and the rest of this planets inhabitants are placed behind what is best for corporate pocket books.
dont get me wrong I want to see corporate make lots of money so they can get me out of poverty. I just want them to do it responcibly. I beleive there is money to be made developing methods of handling the waist productively. I also beleive many waist material could be changed to other non haserdous materials in the manufacturing industry.
it is
to think that my aunt and unkle and their three girls are all dieing of cancer because my unkle worked in the paint shop of ford motor company for 30 years. that plant was allowed to dump out behind its plant for all them years plus and it wasnt untill the late 80's when the city that the plant where my unkle worked was finned 1 million dollars per day till they stopped dumping behind the shop.
clean up well that is not going to happen. a lot of it went down a dranage ditch to the huron river on down to the detroit river and in to lake erie...
so you can see why we realy need a federal standard to handle this problem....
good artical, thanks for bringing it to attention.... and lets hope the right people get a chance to read this post, it realy is to our benifit to act sooner rather than later and pass the bill on to our kids. I mean are they realy that rotten and spoiled that they diserve to live in a slime hole and have to foot the bill? granted alot of the bill was handed down to us, the diffence is we know what we are doing they didnt back then... or did they?
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