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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Greenpeace: "The Hype?" (E. Liverpool Incinerator)
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 23:32:50 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- > True: the (East Liverpool Incinerator) will dump an inexusable
- > amount of emmissons into the air, but why not address the
- > emmissions issue? (i.e. lets build a cleaner plant)
-
- =+= Greenpeace has addressed the emissions issue. In particular,
- there was a trial burn at a cement kiln in Fairborn, Ohio, which
- Greenpeace researchers analyzed and presented a critique on.
-
- =+= You say you've been contributing $50 to them for the last
- five years, so you should have been receiving their magazine.
- Their March/April 1991 issue has an article about risk assess-
- ment that presents part of this critique. In September 1991
- they provided a press release with many details from this crit-
- ique, which I reposted in this forum.
-
- =+= And their October/November/December 1991 issue contains this
- information:
-
- _Playing_With_Fire_ $10.00
- In theory, properly designed incinerators get
- rid of toxic waste. In reality, they create
- more pollution and health problems. This 63-
- page book is a must for any activist fighting
- a hazardous waste incinerator and for any
- person living downwind from one.
-
- Order books from Greenpeace Information Services,
- 1436 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
- 202/319-2444
-
- > Before you rush out trying to stop every chemical incinerator
- > from being built, let's figure out another solution to get rid
- > of the waste first.
-
- =+= I don't think it's acceptable to transfer hazardous waste
- from dumps to the atmosphere. As a former resident of Lowell,
- Massachusetts, I am well aware of the damage that the former
- do, but that doesn't mean the latter is any better.
-
- =+= Greenpeace has devoted considerable effort to dealing with
- this toxic waste by obviating the need for it to be created in
- the first place. Amongst Greenpeace's research publications
- are compiled lists of alternatives to toxic-waste-producing
- technologies.
-
- =+= Another thing: Greenpeace is not the originator of the
- effort to stop this incinerator, nor are they its architects.
- Other national groups are also involved (e.g., Environmental
- Action and SEAC), but by and large the effort is a local,
- grassroots campaign. If you don't like how the effort is going,
- why not address that campaign, rather than bash Greenpeace?
- <_Jym_>
-