Waste to Energy

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

Don't forget the environmentalist pro-incinerator movement which came before
1985.   They were called "waste-to-energy" plants and environmentalists
supported them just long enough to get a few built with government money
instead of taxpayer's money.  Then they turned against them and had them all
shut down.  Except for one in Red Wing MN that burns city trash to make
steam to help tan hides for the Red Wing Shoe Company.

Don Kosloff dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St., Perry OH 44081
440 280 5371

----- Original Message -----
From: ruth_weiner <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Government won't build


> Oh no it wasn't!! The anti-incinerator movement dates back to at least
1985,
> when I reviewed an EIS for a proposed LLW incinerator at Apollo PA.  A
> member of the city council said, after I had presented my review and risk
> analysis, "I believe everything you say, but I just don't like
> incinerators."  For my pains in making a good review and presentation, I
got
> kicked off the Sierra Club Energy Committee and only survived to finish my
> term on the Sierra Club Cascade Chapter Executive Committee by one vote.
>
> The anti-incinerator movement covers much more than radwaste.  I have
> reviewed two hazwaste incinerators that were never built because of
mindless
> opposition by locals.  Another proposed for Vantage WA was opposed by
local
> enviros, including a Ph. D. physicist and a Ph. D. biochemist.  No, I
don't
> think they had a leg to stand on.  The anti-incinerator folks dispense a
lot
> of nonsense about air pollution in general, in addition to radioactive
> emissions.
>
> I'm writing from home, so this is clearly my own opinion!
>
> Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
> 7336 Lew Wallace NE
> Albuquerque, NM
> 505-856-5011
> fax 505-856-5564
> ruth_weiner@msn.com


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