Urgent request for funds!
I am still trying to raise $500 for unmet November expenses
(storage, PO box, phone, deposit on new apt)
(storage, PO box, phone, deposit on new apt)
or alternately, Paypal: http://TinyURL.com/DonateToBillHuston
or USPS: Wm Huston, PO Box 22, Endicott NY, 13761
Watch the Entire Video Playlist:
.... or watch the individual videos:
1: Endicott Battery Update: What is it? Where is it?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgK2Mqjv-Xc&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR
Topics:
- What is it?
Manufacturing, or Recycling?
- Kiln or Incinerator?
- Hype Alert!
- Imperium3/C4V =>
Where is it?
- MIA bastard engineered
by bureaucrats / Taxpayer Money Pit
- Engineered not Organic
- We’ve defeated
incinerators before!
- My Name is Allegany
County (1990)
- Privitization of our
Intellectual Commons
- It’s Just the Same
Old Enclosure Scam
(Diggers, Levellers, Advertising)
- Privatization adds
costs!
- Bait and Switch
(Manufacturing vs. Crash-n-Bash)
- Write or Call the
DEC!!!
- List of Basic
Demands (see below)
2: Endicott Battery thing, Future Plans?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_-qzCfVAGo&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR
Topics:
- Recap: No-show
manufacturing. WASTE TREATMENT on the Fast Track.
- Local Electeds are ON
NOTICE!
- DEC finally got
records to Library – BH published to internet here:
TinyURL.com/EndicottBatteryIncinerator
- DEC is structurally
compromised.
- Aerial survey of site.
- Did NYSEG sign off on
the storage location?!
- SOLVENT EXTRACTION!
(the long-term plan??)
- Write and Call the
DEC!!
- Basic Demands
Listed
3: Endicott Incinerator: Let's talk about the CHEMICALS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nCbPZ6em4pM&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyRTopics:
- Roasting
& Crushing
- SOLVENT EXTRACTION!?
(the real long-term goal?)
- Recalling the SPDES
fight over the Stink Trucks (landfill leachate).
- Endicott: 467
Contaminated Acres/Cancer Cluster
- The Inevitible
Consequence of Mainframe Computers and Personal PCs.
- The Inevitible
Consequence of Mainframe Computers and Personal PCs.
- Now, Endicott’s air
must be poisoned so we can have electric cars?
- Aerial Survey
continues: Proximity to local shopping, downtown area.
- The contents of the
Toxic Smog listed (Potential to Emit)
- The EPA “Major
Source” / Title-V rabbit hole
- Black Art of Chemical
Toxicity Science
- The INCOMPLETE science
of Toxicity
- NOx is NOT a Hazadous
Air Pollutant!? (what the hell?)
- WRITE to the DEC! and
Call too!!
- Basic Demands
repeated.
4: Endicott Battery Incinerator: NEWS UPDATE!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uV9rgArxOt0&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyRTopics:
- What we asked for vs.
what we got.
- 15 days extension.
Really 27. Huh?
- NO WORD about a public
hearing.
- DEC makes it HARD TO
GET THE DOCS!
- BH makes it EASY! Grab
all of the docs here:
TinyURL.com/EndicottBatteryIncinerator
- Special message to
Donna Lupardo
- Recalling Donna’s
environmental record.
- WRITE and CALL the DEC!!!!
- Donna Lupardo: 607-723-9047 LupardoD@nyassembly.gov
5: Endicott Incinerator: DEC Reality Check Pt1
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ma0e2YFTyY&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR
Topics:
- Debunking common
misconceptions about the realities of the view of “Government as
protector of the Environment”.
- Challenges with
fighting the permit
- Fighting the
Government
- DEC almost never
listens – We have to make a BIG NOISE!
- Police Powers!
- DEC almost never
listens – We have to make a BIG NOISE!
- Little help from
local environmental groups
- Fighting the Greens
who think EVs are necessary for “Our Renewable Tomorrow”.
- Fighting the
Government
- Looking for Env.
Warriors at the Cuddle Party!
- Treating Endicott like
damaged goods.
- The history of Stink
Trucks at Endicott
- Pregnant Mare’s
Urine??
- DEC’s sadly pathetic
record. DEC is like Buttah!
- Metaphysics in
Environmental Activism
- Where are the fierce
environmental protectors?
All of the typical suspects (NGOs, electeds, regulators)
are falling over.
- As good stewards, we
must imagine the WORST CASE SCENARIO
- How DEC keeps us
ignorant, and disempowered, various schemes.
- The DANGER of
“Unpublished SEQR actions”.
- We can’t legally
challenge a secret decision! (2011 Stink-Trucks Pilot progrem /
Huron’s new Waste Importation Business)
- The THREE TYPES of NY
Air Pollution Permits
- The multiple reasons
for a public hearings
- But are the hearings a
Moot Court?
- DEC acts as a Project
Sponsor!!! NOT a neutral arbiter.
WHAT THA HELL!! They all act like it’s normal!
- Saw this previously at
the SRBC
- also Commisioner
Martens w/SGEIS.
- DEC Issues Conference
for Crestwood LPG @ Seneca Lake
- DEC staff seen passing notes with the applicant during the meeting!!!
6: Endicott Incinerator: DEC Reality Check Pt2 w/Spike Jones!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTcnKn-nIvk&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR
Topics:
- “Permitting and Regulating” vs Prohibition
- DEC is not designed to Say No.
- Permit: Turn the valve on. Regulate: Keep the valve open.
- The permit doesn’t prevent pollition. It ENABLES IT!
- Why do we prohibit Murder and Rape? (public safety requirement)
- So why do we “Permit and Regulate” toxic pollution?
- The Law is Designed Against Us!!!
- Democracy School teaser.
- Cumulative Impacts NOT STUDIED!
- Point Sources considered individually.
- Discharges are LEGAL as long as “within limits”.
- But really, this is a PSYOP.
- The amount of pollution is NOT LIMITED by law!
-
Holy
Shit!! What a GREAT CLIP of Spike Jones (Allegany
County
Nonviolent Action Group) talking about the pragmatic
necessity of direct action, vs. engaging in a RIGGED Permit Game.
7: Democracy School, Regulatory Rot, Police Powers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_F4vbb3gWU&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyRTopics:
- Get
CELDF Democracy School Training!! All people doing environmental
work should GET THIS TRAINING!
(This is a natural endorsement. I have no financial connection to CELDF) - One major lesson of Democracy School: Permit Proceeding is Rigged Game
- NY SEQR (SEQRA) flowchart, Unlisted Actions, Subjective & Arbitrary Classifications
- We want a full EIS for Endicott! (to slow down the process, not because we believe in the process. See the Tom Linzey clip in the playlist!)
- Regulatory Rot. What we see, Possible reasons postulated.
- We (concerned public) should HELP the legislators and regulators do the right thing. (what is the best possible outcome, from this point?)
- Be careful with those words! (the power of judgements/curses)
- Reggie / Cuddle Party People vs Police Powers
- DEC Police should do more Enforcement Actions against industrial polluters.
- The DEC staff don’t seem to see the rot.
- Stink Trucks video (met Reggie there)
- Reggie’s body language.
- Did you make this mess, Reggie?
- Saying S.P.D.E.S. with a straight face.
- The title of the law is a PSYOP.
- Permit doesn’t “eliminate” pollution. It permits it! (exact opposite)
- Recap: Biz development and protecting env. are mutually exclusive
- Three Branches: Environment Regulator is Executive function.
- Police Powers are Executive function.
- Chart: Police Powers (zoning, muni. cops, ECL)
- “Health, Safety, and Welfare” => Police Powers!
-
Write
to the DEC! Call them too!
8: Endicott: NOT an Environmental Justice Community?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8kIaGsBy9Gs&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOs-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyRTopics:
- Critique of
“Environmental Justice”
- “Race” is used to
DIVIDE people (esp. social movements)
- Rights are not a
function of class/race.
- Benzene toxicity is
not a function of skin color.
- EJ promotes special
classes of victims.
- EJ promotes
victimization fable of PoC and the poor.
- David Braun’s
Ambulance Service
- CELDF approach: Permit
Process is designed to funnel us into arenas where we have no
agency.
- Playing the rigged
permit game.
- Shouldn’t we use the
tools available to us?
(as long as we recognize that the game is rigged)
- SEQR: Negative
Declaration. “Will not have a significant impact”.
- YOUR LIFE DOES NOT
MATTER!
- DEC refuses Endicott
EJ protections. By what basis?
- Details of the NY
DEC’s “Commissioner Policy” on EJ.
- NO TEETH! Creates no
rights, no remedies. Insubstantial.
- Reading the Negative
Dec.
- Major vs. Minor
Projects
- More subjectivity
- CP-29 on Env. Justice
requires PERMIT INFO PUBLISHED ON INTERNET! (huh. Sounds familiar…
Who was asking for this?)
- Write to the DEC and also CALL!
CALL and/or WRITE to the DEC before Thu Dec 5!
Sample letter: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joseph M Dlugolenski
NYSDEC Region 7 Cortland Sub-Office
1285 Fisher Ave
Cortland, NY 13045
(607)753-3095
DEP.R7@dec.ny.gov
subj: Application 7-0346-00218/00001 SMCC LIB Recycling Facility
Dear Mr. Dlugolenski,
My name is ------------.
I (live, work, go to school, have family who live, etc) in Endicott.
(or) I live in (Endwell/JC/Vestal/Binghamton) downwind of the proposed facility in Endicott.
I am very concerned about the proposed SMCC battery incinerator in the center of a populated area. Several of the chemicals with a "Potential to Emit" are CANCER CAUSING, endocrine disruptors, or destroy lung tissue (e.g., sulfuric acid).
My request and demands are that DEC:
- Stop treating Endicott like a 3rd world dumping ground.
- SLOW DOWN the Fast-Track!
- Significantly
Extend the Comment Period
- Hold a Public Hearing in Endicott!
- Conduct a FULL Type-1 SEQR environmental review including an Environmental Impact Statement
- Invoke CP-29: Environmental Justice!
- DEC TRANSPARENCY: Publish the Permit Docs on the INTERNET!
- Raise the Stack
Height by at least 200’
- Baseline Ambient Air Test
- The Applicant should clearly state FUTURE PLANS, e.g., "Solvent Extraction"
- CONTINUOUS
AIR MONITORING! Multiple sites.
- You must PROVE to this community: ZERO HARMFUL EMISSIONS!
Thank you,
(your name)
(your group)
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