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Gwen
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Date Posted: 09:54:34 12/22/05 Thu
Gene, that rings a bell, though I don't have any idea where. Perhaps its similar in a way to being more accustomed to the area. Like when Europeans came to this country, they wiped out so many Native AMericans with European diseases because the natives had no resistance. Not that I would WANT a resistance to pollutants, that can't be good. But there might be people out there who just don't HAVE respiratory problems because they are accustomed to their surroundings. Like the people who work at the plants...how do they react?
I worked on a ship for two months once and I never had a problem with diesel fumes when we were running on diesel. (It was primarily a steamship, so that wasn't going to do much there...) But there were some people aboard who did have trouble. Now I wasn't raised on a ship, but I was in the engine room most of the time so I may have become accustomed to what was down there. The deckies on the otherhand, they might not have been. Or perhaps it's not what is going on at the source, but what comes out the stack. Could be the same for cement plants...
All right, enough of the tangent already!
Ned, yes, most definitely in agreement that people's health should be foremost. But we are back to what to do about it. And that is, in my opinion, not to build new plants but to modernize and bring these outdated facilities up to environmental codes. In essence, ungrandfather them. SLC especially, having been ready to drop so much on the table for the Greenport project, should be able to drop something into Catskill.
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