Monday, December 07, 2009

7 Things You Need to Know About Superfund Sites

Posted by Mickey Z on 12/07 at 05:08 AM
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  1. Exactly. It’s time to take it outside and not be nice.

    I watched Point Break again this week too. Swayze’s character is a little misguided in that one but he’s still amazing as a philosophizing man of action.

    The list of toxic sites is unbelievable and just adds to what I was thinking a post or two back. Here’s a suggestion for the powers that be, use that list as an arrest list.

    If an individual would be picked up for dumping toxic waste under normal laws - then why aren’t all the management of all the companies at all those sites not getting booked right now.

    I smell a ‘law’ system that serves mainly to protect the class system.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  12/07  at  11:44 AM

  2. Dead on, Andy. That Superfund site list could double as an arrest warrant.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/07  at  12:19 PM

  3. Love it. And then: Fortune magazine as a regularly updated most-wanted list...?

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  12/07  at  01:36 PM

  4. A small town library I interned at is the repository for some Superfund documents. Organizing them, I saw the smoking gun report from ‘78 - someone found rusty barrels in the woods. I don’t know how effective the cleanup was, but IIRC 12 years passed before they got started. Test, report, test, study. How many other emergencies take that long?

    Very cold out here - 20F last night. That takes out distortion, so I am going to get some photos of the mountains today.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  12/07  at  01:39 PM

  5. This is superfun. Even captcha sez: justice.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/07  at  03:39 PM

  6. Superfun sites: toxic locales that captains of industry are made to wade through in their speedos, while spectators get to read them excerpts from discarded corporate environmental impact reports.

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  12/07  at  05:34 PM

  7. 7 December doesn’t mean anything to me yet, which means that I have not clicked on the link but that will be corrected shortly.  However, this site means a lot to me, as do the comments by the expendables.

    Hello, Andy, Mickey, Keir and Zen Prole - from a sunny Daylesford.  After it rained all morning, the sun has finally come out.

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  12/07  at  10:28 PM

  8. Hi Helga

    I love that idea, Keir.

    How about this combo. The CEOs of the Fortune 500 list have to complete some kind of celebrity assault course through the superfund sites.

    Then the winner gets a pardon while all the others go to jail. Like Running man or something like that.

    Or in all seriousness. The people off those lists get sentenced to community service - cleaning up the superfund sites.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  12/08  at  01:59 AM

  9. I smell a ‘law’ system that serves mainly to protect the class system.

    What, exactly, did you THINK the law system was for? Us proles?

    There are hundreds of superfund sites in LA. What is now the Cornfield park in LA (just southeast of Chinatown) was a toxic nightmare until it was planted with corn in a combination art exhibit/cleanup. The corn budded red, blue, green (anything but YELLOW) and was so toxic it had to be specially disposed of after harvesting....

    Until very recently I lived near the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/30/not_exactly_the_cistine_chapel_is_i.jpg
    “>6th St access</a> that everybody knows from any film involving a car chase down the river…

    The amazing thing is just how much life there is, and how quickly it appears, once the Engineers Corp (yeah, the military wrecking nature! shock! horror!) stops wrecking it… About 3 miles north of the barren concrete wastes of downtown is Atwater Village. At this point the water table is close to (at...) the surface, and due to the constant welling up they couldn’t concrete the bottom of the channel. Plants would grow every year, and every year the Corps of Engineers would bulldoze it back to barren. Then recently they stopped. Now, there are fish, swans, ducks, herons and other wading birds, frogs and toads, etc etc.

    I help with the LA river cleanup every year - and cannot WAIT until it breaks out of the concrete channel… This is Atwater now!

    LMAO, captcha says “green”

    Posted by subgenius from   on  12/08  at  04:09 AM

  10. Strange server weirdness lost my location and screwed my link (even though it was fine in preview…

    here it is again...hopefully working…

    <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/30/not_exactly_the_cistine_chapel_is_i.jpg“>6th St access</a>

    Posted by subgenius from hell-A  on  12/08  at  04:13 AM

  11. Well, I am baffled...both times it was fine in preview, both times failed in comment…

    here’s a tinyurl instead: http://tinyurl.com/ylde23c

    Posted by subgenius from hell-A  on  12/08  at  04:20 AM

  12. Hello Expendables. No new post today. There’s a new editor at Planet Green and suddenly, my posts are going through intense scrutiny. Not necessarily cause for alarm but I’d expect my output to slow a bit until the dust clears.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/08  at  08:24 AM

  13. That sucks

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  12/08  at  10:27 AM

  14. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/08  at  11:26 AM

  15. Mick, I very much enjoyed Self Defense for Radicals...I liked the whole concept, the information, the quotes, the techniques...I also like the download-able method of delivery of the book.  It’s a steal at $3.

    I have posted a link to it on my FaceBook page…

    Hope the new editor at Planet Green doesn’t mess with you.

    JOS

    Posted by JOS from Chicago  on  12/08  at  01:08 PM

  16. Just read the link Liberals are Useless.

    F*cking A. Great read.

    I’m just doing our band’s next song, about The Rainbow Warrior.

    Now there’s a perfect example of reality. The French government detonate nukes in the pacific off inhabited islands. Greenpeace take it into their own hands to evacuate islanders using their own ship and then plan to protest the site itself next.

    So, the French government send in agents and bomb the ship, sinking it and killing a photographer.

    These are the same people who are supposedly going to make deals to save the environment for us at big meetings. And the media are big upping it as we speak.

    So, take the historical example of the Rainbow Warrior.

    Rhetoric = we must move to save the environment.

    Reality = if someone takes action to save the environment, kill them.

    captcha sez: gone

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  12/08  at  02:34 PM

  17. Where I was today:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7DzEv-jRI4

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/08  at  08:26 PM

  18. Nice MZ, any chance that’s you in the green cap?

    I loved the Chris Hedges Liberals Are Useless article. The tone of it reminds me of this Derrick Jensen quote I just uncovered on a piece of old scrap paper:

    “There is a distinction to be made between shouting from frustration, and shouting because a house is being destroyed and no one is paying attention.”

    Anyone else digging the Democracy Now coverage of Copenhagen?

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  12/09  at  09:45 AM

  19. Yeah, that’s me in the green Yankee cap.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/09  at  10:05 AM

  20. Hey JOS: Forgot to say thanks for ordering and liking my book. I do hope you (and everyone) will spread the word.

    Btw, a new post is now up.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/09  at  10:34 AM

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