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Most people stop thinking about garbage when it leaves their trashcan. Where it goes is of no concern to them.
Trash should be a concern for everyone. The pollution of land, air and water has been proven many times over.
The cost of undoing the damage is much more than the cost of disposing of our garbage in a responsible way.
Trash-to-Energy is a better solution than landfills.
A recent comment on my post a year ago about a dump in High Point, NC led me to an interesting web site called theDumpSite. It is the place to learn the truth about living near the Land Fill in High Point, NC.
The comment said in part: "We've been on Kersey Valley's case since it opened 14 years ago.
Our objections were not so much the landfill per se but the deceit we found.
Like High Point using an extraterritorial jurisdiction iron fist against disenfranchised non-city dwellers to put a heavy industrial land use in the midst of their residential area.
Like making false promises about its excellence and ignoring us or denying it when we showed they were false."
Supreme Court Ruled 9 to 0 Against Duke Energy Pollution
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A victory for the environment! ! !
The United States and Environmental Defense filed suit against Duke Energy for violating Clear Air Act rules when it renovated its plants in North Carolina and South Carolina. The US Supreme Court agreed.
From The New York Times reort today:
The Supreme Court gave a boost Monday to a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing utilities to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants.
From the Environment Defense web site.
The suit against Duke Energy, the country's third-largest power company, centered on its costly renovations to 30 coal-fired electric generating units at eight power plants in North Carolina and South Carolina. Many of these facilities had been operated sporadically or not at all and were due to be retired and replaced. Instead, Duke Energy extensively rebuilt them resulting in significant increases in particulate- and smog-forming pollution, but did not obtain permits nor install pollution control equipment as required by law.
A victory for the environment! ! !
The United States and Environmental Defense filed suit against Duke Energy for violating Clear Air Act rules when it renovated its plants in North Carolina and South Carolina. The US Supreme Court agreed.
From The New York Times reort today:
The Supreme Court gave a boost Monday to a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing utilities to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants.
From the Environment Defense web site.
The suit against Duke Energy, the country's third-largest power company, centered on its costly renovations to 30 coal-fired electric generating units at eight power plants in North Carolina and South Carolina. Many of these facilities had been operated sporadically or not at all and were due to be retired and replaced. Instead, Duke Energy extensively rebuilt them resulting in significant increases in particulate- and smog-forming pollution, but did not obtain permits nor install pollution control equipment as required by law.
PAY THE MAYOR
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Greensboro government could be improved considerably.
My first suggestion would be to pay the mayor at least as much as we pay the director of the coliseum. The colliseum director could be paid a commission based on how much money the facility doesn't lose.
But that's another suggestion. Back to my first suggestion.
Part-time job, Full-time job. What's the difference? The mayor is on-call all the time.
If the mayor were paid a decent salary, Greensboro would not have to depend on the generosity of big business to support our mayor and this would also be an incentive for seeking the office. Our choice of candidates would improve drastically and people with good ideas and skills wouldn't have to sell out to special interest bankrolls.
This is not a new idea, just a good one. I have several other suggestions that would improve Greensboro. I'll get to them another time.
Greensboro government could be improved considerably.
My first suggestion would be to pay the mayor at least as much as we pay the director of the coliseum. The colliseum director could be paid a commission based on how much money the facility doesn't lose.
But that's another suggestion. Back to my first suggestion.
Part-time job, Full-time job. What's the difference? The mayor is on-call all the time.
If the mayor were paid a decent salary, Greensboro would not have to depend on the generosity of big business to support our mayor and this would also be an incentive for seeking the office. Our choice of candidates would improve drastically and people with good ideas and skills wouldn't have to sell out to special interest bankrolls.
This is not a new idea, just a good one. I have several other suggestions that would improve Greensboro. I'll get to them another time.
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