Gulf Coast Residents Angry Over Oil Dumped In Local Landfill

[G_j]

http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/oil-dumped-in-miss-landfill/

Gulf Coast Residents Angry Over Oil Dumped In Local Landfill

Waste Management, a national sanitation company that has tried to position itself as "green" through advertising, recycling initiatives, and sponsorship of the Greenopolis website, has angered Gulf Coast residents by dumping oil waste in Mississippi landfill.

As the BP oil spill spreads throughout the Gulf Coast, residents of Harrison County, Miss., have seen their beaches ruined by the floating sheen. After reports on Wednesday that Waste Management was dumping oil-coated materials from Mississippi coast beaches into the Pecan Grove landfill, their frustration turned to anger.

Double Whammy

"You're dumping your debris in our front yard - on our beaches and marshes," County Supervisor Kim Savant told the Bellingham Herald. "Then, you're going to clean it up and put it in our backyard. BP ought to go out and buy some land and build its own landfill."

Waste Management workers began collecting oily waste from the county's beaches about two weeks ago. The waste containers were transported to holding areas after they were filled while Waste Management officials waited for toxicity test results from the Department of Environmental Quality.

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[PJPhreak]

1. This...

A gent with the handle "Tinfoilhatguy" has been reporting on this for a while now.

His Blog is here...http://gcn01.com/?p=392

[G_j]

2. that picture certainly captures it

thanks

[NNN0LHI]

3. Shit, I sure hope that is a photoshop

[PJPhreak]

4. Nope,Its not. Nt

[Skidmore]

5. WTH do these people expect this corporation to do?

And I'm NOT defending BP. For generations, the Gulf Coast states actively courted big oil and elected the corrupt politicians who protected it. They are also the ones most likely to stand with teabags pasted to their foreheads screaming "Drill, baby, drill" and "gubmint is bad" and believe that regulations of the industry is the same as socialism.

When it comes to this mess, I'm sick of the rank hypocrisy of the region. How many stood up when the industry came in and asked about the potential detriments should they drill in the sea? How many kept sending the likes of Barbour, Jindal, and the Landrieus back time and time again? How many ever considered that a binary economy was perhaps not a good idea, especially when the fishing industry was dependent upon big oil being mindful of careful exploration and drilling?

The climate for mismanagement and pampering of the oil industry was set in the decisions the region made. Decisions have consequences, not all of them enriching. BP is operating in the environment it bought.

[JoeyT]

9. Well if we use that "logic" this country elected Bush twice.

So we deserve the godawful unemployment rate, fucked up tax system, ruined environment, and multiple wars. We're all to blame for human rights abuses, too. So we can never mention any of those again. Anything else would be hypocrisy.

The pampering of the oil industry was done on a national level. Not a single person in any of these states had the least bit of regulatory power over those rigs. And yes, you ARE defending BP. You're demanding the people that live in the area accept responsibility for something they had NO power over. Florida didn't have offshore drilling, yet their coasts are just as ruined as Louisiana's. A lot of people were fighting offshore drilling in other states too. Of course they don't matter: It's more important to blame the victims so it isn't apparent how shitty the response to the spill is. Otherwise people might start asking "What the hell is the government doing during all of this? Isn't the EPA supposed to stop oil from going into landfills?".

[Altoid_Cyclist]

6. I've been wondering what they were doing with the hazardous waste.

Sigh.....now I know it's exactly what I was afraid they would do.

Of course, here in PA we lead the nation in trash importation AND now we have all of the Marcellus Shale destruction going on also. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that PA will accept the hazardous waste from the Gulf and add to the damage being done already.

On more than one occasion, local landfills have been searched for murder victims from other states due to our bountiful trash policy.

Every time that I think that corporations can't sink any lower......

These are old figures, but don't worry. We are still number 1 (in trash importation). Rah Rah ??????



Waste Importation in Pennsylvania

States which Ship Waste to Pennsylvania


In 2003, Pennsylvania accepted waste from
28 states (including DC), plus Puerto Rico and Canada.
94% of these imports were from New Jersey and New York.
Since at least 1992, Pennsylvania has been the largest importer of waste. Of all the municipal solid waste that crosses state lines for disposal, 23 percent comes to Pennsylvania.

Virginia - the nation's 2nd largest importer of waste - receives 60% of the amount of out-of-state waste that Pennsylvania receives.

Despite the rhetoric about states being helpless to control waste imports due to the Interstate Commerce Clause, there ARE ways that excessive waste dumping can be halted.

Waste imports can be reduced dramatically if Pennsylvania legislators did the following:

Read more: http://www.actionpa.org/waste/

[Starry Messenger]

7. recommend

[w4rma]

8. But environmentalists are a bunch of Nazi hippies. They can't be right!

That region actually elects Nazis that are bought and paid for by BP who project the label onto the people who are actually most opposed to fascism.

[G_j]

10. in classic "Rovian" style nt