Kirstie
Pecci
Art
drawn by: Brad Goodwin
Dear
Santa Claus --
I
am sorry to bother you during such a busy time of year, but I have to ask that Ken Kimmell, Rick Sullivan and
Deval Patrick be taken off of your Nice
List. As you probably know, these men
are the Commissioner of the Massachusetts
DEP, the Secretary of the Environment
and the Governor of Massachusetts, and they want to lift the incinerator moratorium because they claim
that we don't have enough disposal
capacity.
These
men have been naughty because:
(1)
If the MassDEP strengthened and enforced its own regulations to recycle plastics, metal, paper, and cardboard
and compost organics like food and yard
waste, we would have more than enough disposal
capacity for decades to come.
Every day waste banned materials are
illegally burned or buried at waste disposal facilities and MassDEP
is turning a blind eye. Our landfills are filling up with materials
that can be recycled and MassDEP is not
holding facility operators, garbage haulers,
businesses, institutions and municipalities accountable.
Only
3 penalties have been issued in the last three years. As a man who visits millions of homes in one
night, you must agree that Commissioner
Kimmell, Secretary Sullivan and Governor Patrick's attempt to lift the moratorium after making
little effort to enforce existing
regulations is very naughty.
(2)
New incinerators emit the same pollutants as the old ones. These men are charged with protecting our
health. Ignoring that charge is very,
very naughty.
Finally,
the Patrick Administration solicited input from the scientific community, industry, citizens and
any other interested stakeholders on
this issue. They determined in 2009 that
lifting the incinerator moratorium didn't make any sense. Nothing has changed. I hate to do it, Santa, but I have to ask you
to put coal, (or more appropriately, incinerator ash?) in Commissioner Kimmell,
Secretary Sullivan and Governor Patrick's stockings.
Thank
you, as always, for the gifts you gave me and my family last year. Merry Christmas!
Your
friend,
Kirstie
Pecci
I guess we better get out of town before we can add an incinerator to our growling list of health hazards in this town.
ReplyDeletethree more health hazards you forgot Clark, Nikolla ,Clemence!
ReplyDeletetotally agree "Clean House". Clark needs to GO, asap.
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