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Jeanelise (jeanelise@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <Jym.23Nov1994.1100@naughty-peahen>, Jym Dyer
: <jym@remarque.berkeley.edu> writes:

: >Greenpeace warns Europe:  "Beware of Waste Management, Inc."

: Golly Gee Whiz!  Nice to know Greenpeace is so worried about Europe and
: poor Hispanic Communities in California.  So, why won't they bother
: responding the very same situation happening right here in the San
: Francisco Bay Area . . . . in a poor Hispanic, Portuguese, Scandanavian
: and Scottish community!

: We've got an organization called Future Tech who is dumping sludge in the
: super-sensitive Delta, and no one will pay attention because they call it
: "agricultural fertilizer."  Dust clouds that spread for miles?  That's
: okay - it's agricultural dust.  Middle of the night truckloads being
: dumped in the boonies - who cares?  Under the table payments to deliver
: untreated waste water to remote sites?  Not worth investigating.  So what
: if the operators are spreading sludge on areas that no longer are owned by
: the license holders - it's all going to be turned into a reservoir pretty
: soon, anyway.  Let the County clean up the land!

: Waste Management is NOT the only company that is endangering our
: environment in the monumental money making schemes of waste disposal.  All
: across the country, similar companies are slipping into the backwaters of
: rural communities and conspiring with large land owners to circumvent
: existing laws for enormous profit.  And local residents can get no one to
: listen, especially the large environmental organizations who seem to only
: concern themselves with cases of major newsworthiness.  Over and over, the
: government and private agencies tell us that "nothing can be done."

: I've left messages on this board about our own situation, and the great
: majority of responses I've received have been to tell me in not so polite
: terms to stop my hysterical rantings and leave room for IMPORTANT
: discussions.  But, I've heard from enough other concerned individuals to
: realize that this situation is happening all across the country, and we
: fear that in just a few years, we're all going to realize how important
: this problem has been, and it will be too late.

: So, I'll ask again, while so many of your are thinking of this Greenpeace
: alert.  Will more of you concerned and serious environmentalists PLEASE
: give more of your attention to this very insidious and growing problem of
: so-called "Biowaste management!"  Some of us are becoming all too aware
: that this is an environmental timebomb, quietly ticking away.

I think it's terrible that local businesses are trashing our environment and
getting away with it! >:(  But I don't think the large environmental groups
will help stop them, because they deal with international issues.  What we
need is a local environmental group powerful enough to stop big business.

I live in Davis, CA so I don't know of any environmental groups in San Fran.
But there is a statewide group called CalPIRG (California Public Interest
Research Group).  They have done a lot of work to help put "green" props
on the ballot, such as the Transit initiative, and done other work to help
the environment.  My sister Heather is going to grad-school in Santa Cruz,
and is the co-vice-chair of the UC Santa Cruz chapter of CalPIRG.  You can
email her at:

logan@noether.ucsc.edu

Hopefully she'll be able to help in some way by letting CalPIRG know what
Future Tech is doing to the delta.  

Good luck,

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