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Subject: Berkshire/Capital District HomeStyle Author: Ned Depew [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:40:19 12/19/05 Mon In reply to: Gwen 's message, "Magazine?" on 18:47:16 12/18/05 Sun Gwen - Yes - I am "Associate Publisher" (an unsalaried, honorary position) of B/CDHS. I'm curently on sort of semi-retirement leave while I work to get my new house in Stuyvesant livable as quickly as possible, writing only movie reviews for the December and January issues instead of my typical contribution of three to four features each month. The magazine is distributed free throughout Columbia, Berkshire, Albany, Southern Rensselaer, Southern Saratoga and Northern Dutchess counties, at hundreds of locations. Here in Hudson you can pick it up around the first of each month (until supplies give out) at places including the Train Station, the Carrie Haddad Gallery, TSL, the soon-to-re-open Earthfoods, The Muddy Cup, and many other busineses. You are right, there are lots of issues confronting the County. If you'll scan the archives here you'll see some of what I and others have had to say on a variety of them - from affordable housing and the anti-diversity effects of "gentrification" - which is a County-wide problem - and coherent, County-wide land-use planning (which is becoming more and more of a necessity), to the politicization of the Sherriff's Department and the painful and expensive redundancy and bureaucratic inefficiency built into the "County Government" system. I'm available to discuss any and all of these important issues. Today I'm particularly fired up by a report in the Sunday Poughkeepsie Journal that lists Sharpe's Landing in Germantown as one of the places in the State suffering from the most polluted air - thanks presumably to emissions from the Lehigh/Blue Circle and St Lawrence Cement plants just upwind in Greene County. The article includes the fact that true to Phil Lochbrunner's threat in 1999, St Lawrence is continuing to operate their Cementon plant with "1960s technology" (his words) and released more than five times as much dangerous pollution in 2003 (according to the Company's own latest figures) as they did in 2000 - an unsettling trend. You can find the whole article on their web-site at: http://poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/ Then, of course, there's the ongoing problem with LaFarge's Ravena Cement Plant, where they are working hand-in-glove with a compliant - almost fawning - DEC to gain approval for a permit that will allow them to burn 5 Million dioxin-releasing tires at their plant each year. Without effective and energetic public outcry, you and yours will be inhaling your fair share of these highly-toxic agents within a year. Yet I hear few voices raised... You wanna talk? Let's talk... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Dirty air FoH style.... Author: Gene [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:58:38 12/19/05 Mon You have to thank yourself and FoH for all the dirty air. We could have had a brand new clean, state of the art cement plant. Thanks for all the dirty air we have to breath, don't be blaming it on anything else.

[> [> [> Subject: According to Phil Lochbrunner... Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:15:09 12/19/05 Mon ..."the air in Greenport would probably be dirtier if the Greenport proposal were built." But you probably think he was lying. Only you, Gene, could be so dense as to blame FoH for the fact that SLC is taking advantage of their "grandfathered" staus in Cementon to emit pollution that subjects their neighbors some of the highest concentrations of dirty, toxic air in the state. The Greenport plant wouldn't have made things any better. In fact, it would have made them worse, and for many more people. The facts were all there - but you never paid any attention to them, and you aren't paying any attention to them now. What else is new?

[> [> [> [> Subject: The glass is half full or is it half empty??? Author: Gene [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:48:41 12/20/05 Tue Define and prove " would probably" for me which is subjective to your interpertation. The science which went into the project supports my position.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Ask Phil...he said it Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:21:09 12/20/05 Tue At any rate, Gene, he wasn't willing (at that point) to lie and tell people the air would be cleaner. But you are...aren't you?