Subject:  Re Another example of industry indifference to poor 
Date:     Wed, 13 Sep 2000 225700 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Subject: Re: Another example of industry indifference to poor (Whitehead).
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:38:12 -0400
From: Susan Clarke 
To: roy@emfguru.com

In February 1994, President Clinton signed a remarkable, groundbreaking
executive order on Environmental Justice.  It essentially said that
polluters cannot dump on the poor or on racial minorities.  Its flaws
included that it was not enforceable by law and that it did not require
environmental justice for the physically vulnerable or for those who are
already disproportionately exposed to a particular polluting agent. 

(Moreover, every Justice must be accorded All, as US schoolchildren
pledge to their flag.) 

Nevertheless, apart from the ravages of the Republican takeover of
Congress beginning in November 1994, the Executive Order has effected
powerful protections for many disadvantaged people.  A lawfirm in
Philadelphia has been investigating this angle toward stopping new RF
towers and transmitters.  Those who have ideas which might help their
efforts may email information to roxlaw@erols.com.

Susan Clarke

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:31:35 -0500 Roy Beavers  writes:
> .........Yyyepp!!!!.......guru.....
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Another example
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:20:10 -0400
> From: "whitehead" 
> To: "Roy Beavers" 
> 
> Hi Roy:
> 
> You mentioned how low income neighborhoods are taken advantage of by 
> the
> power companies - here is todays example of that very thing.  I 
> sometimes
> wonder just who local governments think they are supposed to 
> benefit.  In
> this case, the power company is out of state and the power is for 
> out of
> county residents.  This is an excerpt from the Florida Today 
> newspaper:
> 
> Sept. 13, 2000
> Residents want hearing on power plant
> By Jeff Schweers
> FLORIDA TODAY
> COCOA, Fla.  - Jan Moody and her neighbors are puzzled.
> They want to know how the Brevard County Commission could approve 
> what they
> describe as an air-polluting, water-guzzling, $200 million power 
> plant on
> wetlands near their homes without public hearings to determine if 
> the
> project is in the public's interest.
> 
> "It doesn't seem right," said Moody, who has lived a mile from the 
> proposed
> plant site in the Dalehurst neighborhood for 20 years. "I think it's 
> not
> right for a plant to come in that's going to be servicing 
> (out-of-county)
> residents. It's not even beneficial to us, and it's just going to be 
> smack
> dab in a beautiful area where there's lot of neighborhoods."
> 
> County officials signed off on the site plan two weeks ago, a year 
> after the
> commission voted 4-1 to approve a controversial settlement agreement 
> with
> Baltimore, Md.-based Constellation Power Development Corp. In the
> settlement, Constellation agreed to drop lawsuits it filed against 
> Brevard
> County Commissioners for initially voting to block the project.
> 
> "We had no choice but to approve it," said Bruce Moia, director of 
> land
> development for the county, said of the settlement.
> 
> He said the plan met the conditions of the settlement agreement and
> conformed to county code.
> 
> But homeowners who live in the LOW-INCOME neighborhoods surrounding 
> the
> 38-acre plant site on Townsend Road just north of State Road 520 are 
> not
> happy with those explanations. They feel the public hearing process 
> has been
> sidestepped and that the developer is not meeting the terms of the
> settlement agreement.
> 
> "We're going to get the pollution, we're going to get the water 
> used.
> Where's our benefit?" Dalehurst homeowner Sharon Burridge said. 
> "When I look
> at the balance, I can't believe it's going through. Why are we 
> getting
> Oleander, and why is it going in where all these children are being 
> raised?"
> 
> The gas-burning plant is expected to release up to 4.2 million 
> pounds of
> pollution annually and consume as much as 73 million gallons of 
> water a year
> to cool its turbines. The energy it produces will be sold to 
> Seminole Power
> and other companies that don't provide electricity to Brevard.
> 
> 
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