See the Bloomberg story below.
There are many ironies in all this. Not the least is that the wind project was widely supported by Delawareans in preference to a new coal burner proposed by NRG. NRG ended up with the wind project and has now cancelled it.
The ongoing nightmare of Chambers Works
Most people probably know that the DuPont Company (formally E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.), at the New Jersey end of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, at its Chambers Works site (DuPont Company Chambers Works website) , operates one of largest hazardous waste facilities in the US.
Essentially it’s made up of a hazardous waste landfill (dump) and a wastewater treatment plant discharging into the Delaware River.
Nasty industrial waste from all over the US, and sometimes from overseas, comes to South Jersey to be "treated" and then dumped, either on land or into the river. DuPont calls it "Secure Environmental Treatment." We call it a disgrace.
[Comment: Markell had been dodging and weaving on this issue for months. There's no way he would have stalled fracking in the Delaware River basin—the DRBC meeting has been cancelled as the drilling industry doesn't have the votes right now—without a lot of effective organizing. A key underlying problem is that fracking has been exempted from the Clean Water Act.
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"Fracking" Proposal Currently Lacks Sufficient Health and Safety Protections
Delaware will vote "No" at Monday meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission
WILMINGTON — The proposed regulations that would authorize drilling and hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to begin in the Delaware River Basin lack critical details on how public health and safety would be protected, Governor Jack Markell wrote today in a letter to the other voting members of the Delaware River Basin Commission.
In the letter, Markell made clear that Delaware’s representative would vote against the Natural Gas Development Regulations at the Commission’s meeting in Trenton this Monday.
"The People’s March" on Saturday, November 12th at noon in Spencer Plaza in Wilmington, DE. Let YOUR voice be heard and support free speech. The plan is to march from Spencer Plaza to Rodney Square and back to Spencer again.
We’d like to hear your thoughts. Here are some from Alan Muller:
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Perhaps the main positive development in our grim political situation is the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The Occupy Delaware branch of this can be found at:
http://www.occupyde.org/
https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyDelaware
We don’t know where this is going, but let’s hope.
Occupy Delaware selects protest site
Delaware is experiencing an ongoing "dangerous weather situation."
Monday (7/18/11): official Code Orange day
Tuesday (7/19/11) Code Yellow day (Delaware does not announce Code Yellow days)
Wednesday (7/20/11) official Code Orange day
Thursday (7/21/11) official Code Orange day
Friday (7/22/11) official Code Orange day
Bad air is likely to continue through the weekend. Keep reading »
By Naseema Noor
WASHINGTON, Jul 12, 2011 (IPS) - Senior officials under the former George W. Bush administration knowingly authorised the torture of terrorism suspects held under United States custody, a Human Right Watch (HRW) report released here Tuesday revealed
Titled "Getting Away with Torture", the 107-page report presents a plethora of evidence that HRW says warrants criminal investigations against former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet and Bush himself, among others.
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Worst air this week predicted in southern Delaware.
Official Code Orange (really Code Red) Monday and Tuesday.
Official Code Yellow Wednesday and Thursday.
Heat Advisory also in effect
“ EnviroFlash Fact Sheet”
The allergen (pollen) forecast is “Medium”
From the Delaware Department of Natural Resources (assembled from recent emails):
Code Orange Levels of Ozone Forecasted for Saturday, July 2, 2011
Code Orange Levels of Ozone Forecasted for Sunday, July 3, 2011
A Code Orange air quality forecast for ozone is a level of pollution that can be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as young children, the elderly, and those with heart and/or respiratory conditions. Such persons should limit outdoor activities, especially those that require a high level of exertion. Keep reading »
Joyce Mullins died on the 4th of July 2009. I, and many other people who appreciated Joyce, didn’t know, possibly because The News Journal apparently never ran an obit.
Joyce was a for-real reporter. She never, as far as I know, had a high-profile job or an especially wide audience for her work. That was our loss.
We depend on reporters–I include bloggers, etc–to hold up mirrors, making us, or at least giving us the opportunity, to see ourselves are we really are. Keep reading »