Saturday, November 30, 2019

Endicott Battery Incinerator: New Videos!



Urgent request for funds! 
I am still trying to raise $500 for unmet November expenses
(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-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR 
     


    Topics:
    • 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.
    • 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-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR 

     

    Topics:
    • 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!
      • Little help from local environmental groups
      • Fighting the Greens who think EVs are necessary for “Our Renewable Tomorrow”.
    • 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-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR 
     
     

    Topics:
    • 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-n8hiEVseRtiAYke4YyR  



    Topics:
    • 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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