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Subject: Looks like the NIMBY'S are fightimg......


Author:
Gene
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Date Posted: 14:29:22 08/30/05 Tue

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[> Subject: Since nearly all the "plant supporters"...


Author:
Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 15:49:49 08/30/05 Tue

...were paid employees of SLC, there is no one to fight with!

When the project was abandoned, the "astroturf" (faux grassroots) HVEEC simply dissipated into the fog. That's something to be proud of.

FoH, Scenic Hudson, Friends of Olana, Riverkeeper and many other organizations from the coalition continue to work well together, despite some differences among them - as you will see in the growing opposition to the Lafarge application to modify their air-quality permit to allow them to burn whole tires.
[> [> Subject: Re: Since nearly all the "plant supporters"...


Author:
darla
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Date Posted: 19:03:46 08/30/05 Tue

Talk about nonsense. Of all the suppoters I met who were in suppoters of SLC, three were employees, Out of hundreds real time and thousands snail mail and cyber.

No matter how you skin it, that was an ignorant and WRONG statement Bud.

I won't be coming back here. Wish you had a guestbook so I could tell you what's up and that everyone is right in their revies of this site.
[> [> [> Subject: Documentation please?


Author:
Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 10:19:38 08/31/05 Wed

Dear Lo - oops, I mean "Darla"

Where are you getting those figures? I talked with many "SLC Supporters" at the public hearings, trying to understand their point of view and offer them some of the factual information I had gathered, and the overwhelming majority of them were either direct employees (many of whom were feted with free hot dogs and bussed en masse to the hearings at SLC expense) or "indirect employees" - employees of sub-contractors who worked regularly for SLC-Cementon and expected to continue to work for SLC if the Greenport Proposal had been allowed to go foreward.

There was also a contingent of members of various unions who had been promised jobs with companies that would be building the proposed plant, if it were built - in other words "prospective indirect employees."

Then, there was TomGeneTim and a few others who were willing to "work for" SLC for peanuts - or should I say hot dogs - some of whom ended up on the indirect SLC payroll when it was funding the "HVEEC."

We can go back, if you will, and examine the signatures on the "petition" circulated by SLC in support of their proposal, and you will see, as I already have, that a huge proportion of them were SLC employees or prospective employees - direct and indirect - and their families, friends and neighbors. Those are the facts.

If there is any ignorance on display here. It is yours. You make bogus claims from behind the cover of anonymity, and you expect your statements and opinions to be taken seriously?

Please feel free not to come back, with my express blessing. Anonymous trolls who post mis-information are not something we need here.
[> [> Subject: Bow wow!


Author:
Gene
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Date Posted: 19:43:10 08/30/05 Tue

Its just that the tail of the dog wants all the credit. Laughable that all.
[> [> [> Subject: Better the tail of the dog than the hind end of the Donkey, eh?


Author:
Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 10:21:48 08/31/05 Wed

[> [> [> [> Subject: Pickey picky....


Author:
Gene
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Date Posted: 09:10:12 09/01/05 Thu

Where me pickey???


[> Subject: Re: Looks like the NIMBY'S are fightimg......


Author:
grateful anyway
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Date Posted: 20:23:42 08/31/05 Wed

Oh that is just Sam being Sam. Without Sam SLC would be up and running by now, and he just doesn't want anyone to forget it was 'his' fight first. He will grow out of it, hopefully.


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