Re: thedailyworld/sections/news/local/westway-imperium-study-projects-growth-oil-terminals.html Gosh. The almighty dollar seems to win again. Hoodwink poor, undereducated populations with enoughtrickle-down promises, and they might follow that Pied Piper of promised prosperity anywhere, at any cost. I thought Imperium Renewables only dealt in actual renewable fuels--biodiesel, etc.. RENEWABLES--HERE! -what a coup! We were all sold on the idea of a renewable fuels company in GHC. ...Now theyre promoting petroleum/Crude Trains and shipping in GHC? Petroleum is NOT-EVER-Renewable--NEVER. The ancillary costs of petroleum are pervasive. That is a HUGE disappointment and a betrayal of everyones trust that they only were to be renewable fuels. They only estimate a maximum of 148 jobs---in a population of 71,692 ?! For estimated approx. + $100-million annual profit? With a population est. in 2012, of 71,692 in Grays Harbor County, that industry is only offering [drum-roll please...]: ==a scathingly fractional --2 thousandths of a single percent--[thats 0.00206 %] of the population-- MIGHT get jobs, plus a handful of ancillary jobs in related businesses, IF everything turns out as estimated? In light of how other large industries have talked large, yet evidenced little gains to populations affected by their industries--actually helping real people--particularly when it comes to Petroleums history or broad-scale pillaging---I find it very hard to believe GHC populations will actually truly benefit from this--only in token ways maybe.. That seems an astronomical negative Risk: benefit ratio, in context with how many trains will be polluting the entire County daily, with not only Sound, but exhaust from daily, multiple train engines on the route, polluting air and water sources for the entire County [as if polluting only part of a County were any better...!]. The costs of increased medical needs, in an already drastically health-compromised County [ref: CDCs estimation], could likely be significant; that does not count the danger of spills from derailments and the usual annual floodings compromising tracks [oh--wait! Maybe that might be some of those handful of ancillary seasonal jobs?] Other States, like CA, have learned the hard way, how bad petroleum and related chemical-polluted water tables are--theirs are deep tables; Our water tables are near the surface, imminently more susceptible to pollution from petroleum and its related chemicals. Even the million$ this gambit promises to generate, seem inadequate to address all that. Other States have never been capable of remedying the pollutions from petroleum--we all simply deal with the fallout daily, escalating in its severity each year. Theres been no true recovery, in current long lifetimes, from mega-spills, fires, explosions & pollutions that petroleum drilling, pipelines, trains, ships and refineries have wrought. WHY? WHY NOT capitalize only and fully, with actual RENEWABLES? WHO has really been effectively blocking placing numerous Wave generators and Wind generators along the shores of WA State? These are successfully used many other places--WHY NOT HERE?! THOSE would bring similar income, and more, & likely MORE jobs, AND keep things clean! Losing ones health, or whats left of it, cannot be bought or corrected by building more clinics to handle greater ills caused by all that pollution and risk, not even for those FEW jobs and all that money. What are -your- and your elders, childrens and grandchildrens health are worth? Do those corporations feel you are expendable so they can profit? How do others feel about the morality/ethics of that? Or maybe, only as long as the few in upper echelons of the involved Corporate industries profiteer enough to provide some increased level of remedial health care, then its still OK? I dont think so. Or, maybe Ive lived too long--and the kind of ethics I was raised with, are no longer relevant? C. Holmes, R.N. ================================== On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Kelle wrote: I noticed this in the Daily World on 19 October. thedailyworld/sections/news/local/westway-imperium-study-projects-growth-oil-terminals.html And by coincidence this derailment appeared on the net on 19 October! https://commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/19-1 Now my question is--is the economic benefit of shipping oil and gas to a Grays Harbor terminal, worth the possible hazards? :-) Kelle
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 23:29:58 +0000
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