On this page the following entries were made in the “June, 2007” time-frame.
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Neighbors Nugget Number 2
You might want to read the previous post titled ” Googling Nancy Hone” to appreciate Neighbors ( Against The Burner ) Nugget Number 2.
From Neighbors against The Burner web site:
EPA emissions standards have seriously eroded under the Bush Administration. We cannot trust them to protect our health.
The above graphic is taken from the latest EPA report . Just click on the picture to view full size. It shows increased population, and increases in vehicle miles , factory production, and energy consumption, while aggregate emissions have been steadily declining.
If you want people to back your cause, don’t lie.
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Googling Nancy Hone
“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
— Aesop
Rock-Tenn’s steam contract with Excel Energy is soon to expire. Excel Energy was forced persuaded to shut down their coal burning High Bridge plant out of concern for the pollutants associated with that method of energy generation. Rock-Tenn underwent an exhaustive search to develop an economically feasible energy plan that will allow them to continue profitable operation of the four recycled paper machines on the St. Paul, MN site. The team determined the most economical and responsible plan would be the creation of a Biomass Plant utilizing a variety of fuels, but principally RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel), or as opponents prefer a trashburner. Now opponents will admit that the trashburner does NOT effect the atmosphere as severely as a coal burner but they still do not find the technology acceptable.
Neighbors Against The Burner hosted a discussion this past week by environmental activist Alan Muller of Green Delaware. The talk focused on damage to the environment that a burner would cause. One of the presentations more salient points was ” The safety of new incinerator installations cannot be established in advance…” By the same token neither can the harm. Muller’s talk ended with an advocacy for Zero Waste concluding Minnesotans are up to the challenge because our recycling rates are so high. Ironically one of those areas is paper, half of which is recycled at the Rock-Tenn mills in St. Paul. A calculation for the inreased environmental hit in transporting waste paper to more distant processors was not included in the presentation.
Both sides to this discussion make assumptions and projections and present their cases. The opponents refuse to acknowledge any benefits and an unwillingness to compromise, while the proponents seem to admit to some shortcomings and are eager to resolve issues to the best resolution possible within plan parameters.
Now I admit a bias. I am a Rock-Tenn employee, a union worker. If the plant closes my job goes, and it gives me pause to think about my young co-workers who would have a hard time replacing the income for their families. Neighbors against the burner claims their vision is to “find a solution that will provide affordable, clean energy to the Rock-Tenn recycling plant to keep it as a healthy, thriving business in St. Paul for generations to come”. So far they have not demonstrated that side.
They do however have the following nugget on their website:
An attempt is already being made to pit Unions and Labor – especially the 450+ workers employed by Rock-Tenn – against neighbors who oppose the garbage burner. This is an old ploy.
As I said before, I am a union worker at the Rock-Tenn St. Paul Mill. The above statement is simply untrue.
Lying is the the oldest ploy there is.
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Linkin’ Linkin’ Get U Thinkin’
- They don’t call politics a bloodsport for nothing. How about we make a potential candidate’s Match.com profile public?
- Seattle giving homeless alchoholics subsidized housing so they can keep drinking and save taxpayers money. A win-win solution.
- Environmental groups claim the music industry’s transition from physical to digital has no discernible benefit to the environment and, in the short term, is actually causing more harm than good.
- Google going greener.
- This happened a long time ago but it is an amazing pitch by Randy Johnson. In slow motion, with French narration.
- Art collectors and museums that purchased 90 tins of “Artist’s Shit” by Italian artist Piero Manzoni only to learn the artworks are not authentic excrement have been reassured by no less than the Tate Museum that the discovery does not invalidate the genius of these masterpieces.
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The Squeeky Canstruction Gets The Grease
Following photo via Militant Platypus
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Artist installs phone service to melting glacier so you can have a ” beautiful and intimate moment” with the ice block as it slowly disappears into the sea. Long distance ( international rates ) charges apply.
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Canstruction - a newly emerging art style.
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Speaking of Can Art how about beer can art?
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Speaking of beer. Make your own with Mr. Beer.
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Use your mouse to keep this tipsy fellows balance as he walks home.
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Secret celebrity Scientologists.
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Next year the Dutch plan to implement a smoking ban for restaurants and cafes, including the coffee shops where marijuana is the main attraction.
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Nothing Usual About Politics
- How about this campaign video of Jerry Springer confessing his sins during a 1980 run for Governor?
- Alabama senator takes a poke at colleague.
- Trophy wives.
- Wonkette’s take on Fred Thompson’s bride. Check out the comments too.
- Glenn Beck wonders whether Elizabeth Kucinich was under the influence of powerful drugs in order to become the congressman’s wife.
- The 2008 Presidential contestants and possible candidates here. Includes minor party candidates.
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