Friday, November 21, 2008

Energy Answers Big Lies

Energy Answers and Big Lies

" Die Engländer gehen nach dem Prinzip vor,
wenn du lügst, dann lüge gründlich,
und vor allem bleibe bei dem, was du gelogen hast! "

"Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik"

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DCC apparently used 19,000,000 Euro and The Big Lie method when acting for Covanta during the Poolbeg Waste-To-Toxins Oral hearings.

Escaping US Law?

The proposed Covanta operation at Poolbeg has its HQ in Luxembourg – presumably to firewall it from public liability for 100,000 premature deaths. Covanta also controls Energy Answers International, the organisation now proposing a Waste-To-Toxins incinerator in West Dublin at Rathcoole. This Energy Answers operation is firewalled in The Virgin Islands, not so far from GITMO. Enron, another "Energy" corporation also had multiple special purpose operations in the Caribbean before it managed itself into one of the largest bankruptcies in history. Why are they all afraid of US Jurisprudence?

Apparently these Waste-To-Toxins proposers are using some of the same Big Lies at Poolbeg and at Rathcoole.

Covanta and Energy Answers employ a 10-year-Ex-EPA-Ireland Director as a “consultant”.


Some informed responses to the cynical Big Lies deployed for the proposed Waste-To-Toxins factory at Rathcoole are below.

The Biodiversity Big Lie - Response

Consultant ecologist Mieke Muyllaert said the site was "of greater biodiversity significance than suggested by the environmental impact statement".

The Transportation Big Lie - Response

Transportation expert Christy O'Sullivan said there were significant dangers posed for traffic on the N7.

The Toxins Big Lie - Response

Biochemist Deborah McDermott was incredulous that the applicant had claimed the boiler ash did not qualify as hazardous waste.

The Landscape Big Lie - Response

Rónán Mac Diarmada, an agricultural scientist, said the drawings in the application were flawed. "The landscape drawing is unsatisfactory in terms of detail and accuracy. The site boundary does not correlate with other consultants' drawings. The site layout does not show levels and does not correspond to engineers' drawings."

REF: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1121/1227137525429.html

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sweden's Incinerators Forced to Import 600,000 Tonnes Waste

November 20, 2008
Sweden is an educated and advanced society without the corruption and class divisions exploited by Ireland's political class. Swedes trust "Lisbon". Guess why "Paddy" doesn't.

So its possible Sweden could run an incinerator in an honest manner. An incinerator run by Swedes is possibly not a scary thing, with just a few premature deaths a year. This
acceptable level is not unlike the people riding bicycles in Dublin, otherwise known as the kidney-donors (Sweden has real bicycle paths). In starkest contrast, an incinerator run by Dublin City Council is a very scary thing indeed. DCC's level of honesty means they can not even run their 'Ringsend' schijt factory. However it seems even Sweden has slipped into the gombeen land of Abba's money.

Cynically, for its
proposed Waste-To-Toxins incinerator at Poolbeg, the DCC team exploits Irish class divisions along with insular jackeen-culchie perspectives. In other words, the "republican party" Fianna-Fail seems to be continuing British tactics to exploit Ireland. The fat boys from New Jersey are laughing all the way to their Caribbean banks. And they are fat - their Vice President had to use the elevators to go up one floor at The Gresham.

"Never Misunderestimate The Stupidity of the People We Serve."

This is a common phrase in California.

Dublin City Council is building on its world-class legacy where it turned the beach at Sandymount-Irishtown-Ringsend into Dublin's rubbish dump.
Can Dublin City Council and Covanta now turn Ireland into Europe's garbage dump? This would displace socialist and green Sweden from the honour of being Europe's garbage dump.

Sverige - Europas soptipp

Say it in Swedish

Celtic Tiger Johnny Logan liberated Europe from the greed of Abba's Money, Money, Money.
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Sweden Reduced To Importing Garbage

Scavenging at Högdalen CHP. Photo Bjorn Larsson Ash / Scanpix

High profit in the Swedish Waste-To-Toxins incineration business has led to overcapacity, which now must be filled with the import of waste from other countries. According to the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation Sweden is in danger of becoming Europe's garbage dump.

" Swedish incineration plants are among the best in Europe,

so we can become a YOUNG CUCKOO in other countries in that

we attract the waste and create a market for incineration, "

said Svante Axelsson, Secretary General of Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.


Is there a risk that Sweden is Europe's garbage dump?

Yes, there is.

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EXTRACT
20 november 2008

Sverige tvingas importera sopor

Sedan år 2000 har antalet förbränningsanläggningar för avfall mer än fördubblats i Sverige. Och den lönsamhet som finns i förbränningsbranschen har lett till överkapacitet som nu måste fyllas ut med import av avfall från andra länder. Enligt Naturskyddsföreningen riskerar Sverige att bli Europas soptipp, men branschorganisationen håller inte med.

– De svenska förbränningsanläggningarna är bland de bättre i Europa, så vi kan bli en gökunge i andra länder genom att vi attraherar avfall och skapar en marknad för förbränning, säger Svante Axelsson, generalsekreterare på Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen.

Finns det en risk för att Sverige blir Europas soptipp?

– Ja, det finns det.

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EXTRACT

Zana Schiroyi
zana.schiroyi@sr.se

Anna Nyström, SR Örebro
anna.nystrom@sr.se

Research:

Victoria Gaunitz
victoria.gaunitz@sr.se

Magdalena Martinsson, SR Norrbotten
magdalena.martinsson@sr.se

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Toxic Slag Permitted by Mr. Gormley's DDDA At Nature Site?


Apparently the Dublin Docklands Developers Authority has authorised the dumping of a mountain of potentially toxic slag beside Irishtown Nature Park. Apparently the EPA is toothless, indifferent and possibly even criminally negligent(a).


John Gormley, July 18, 2005. JG/RM.
Planning Application 4996/04


Following the Poolbeg Incinerator oral hearings the Bord Pleanala Inspector reported pollution from particles in Poolbeg was already at or above acceptable legal norms. The Inspector specified measures should be taken to reduce particle pollution during construction. So now, even before final approval from their EPA buddies on behalf of foreign corporations, DDDA+DCC is breaking this condition. With this reckless attitude why would DCC control invisible dioxins?

From Irishtown Nature Park.
November 2008.

The Dublin Docklands Developers Authority is a taxpayer funded quango in Mr J. Gormleys's control. The quango is used to perform Chinese style autocratic urban planning. For instance, the quango prevents access to the Bord Pleanala planning process by educated citizens. The quango hides information from the public.

Dumping the potentially toxic slag may be a pre-emptive action by DDDA+DCC or others to destroy the land used by Brent Geese (fresh water, flight paths). The reckless and possibly illegal work appears to be in advance of authorisation from their cronies in EPA-Ireland for a Waste-To-Toxins incinerator. Apparently EPA-Ireland will not investigate the "sand" - the fine public protectors first require a piece of paper, their usual excuse apparently.

Invisible 'fine particles' from this 80 foot high mountain blow over Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend damaging human health. But DCC & DDDA will say "you can not prove that".

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DCC's sewage factory stinks and wastes tens of millions of emergency tax-payer cash, signed for by Mr J Gormley in November 2008. Whether this unforseeable situation is due to corruption or bad engineering by DCC is an open question. However DCC is used to engineering schijt.

An efficiently managed Waste-To-Toxins incinerator would reduce life by 100,000 man-years in its first 15 years [British Society for Ecological Medicine]. An ineptly or possibly corruptly managed Waste-To-Toxins incinerator will cause tens to hundreds of premature deaths across Dublin, each year. Do you trust DCC with your life expectancy? Do you trust Covanta, a corporation with a curious regard for obeying the law in its home state of New Jersey.

(a) The EPA CharadeThe Philadelphia Inquirer's been running a good series about the toothless, indifferent and possibly even criminally negligent EPA.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/epa-charade
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Please send any insights or validated corrections to galwaytent@gmail.com

Deadly Particles (PM2.5), Dublin Bay Incinerator, Dublin Docklands Authority, Gormley, Health, Law Breaking, PM2.5, Poolbeg Incinerator

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

No more incinerators should be approved - British Society for Ecological Medicine - June 2008

June 2008
The British Society for Ecological Medicine concludes
that no more incinerators should be approved.



Recent research, including that relating to fine and ultrafine particulates, the costs of incineration, together with research investigating nonstandard emissions from incinerators, has demonstrated that the hazards of incineration are greater than previously realised.

The accumulated evidence on
the health risks of incinerators is simply too strong to ignore and their use cannot be justified now that better, cheaper and far less hazardous methods of waste disposal have become available.

http://www.ecomed.org.uk/content/IncineratorReport_v2.pdf

The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators
4th Report of the British Society for
Ecological Medicine
Second Edition June 2008
Moderators: Dr Jeremy Thompson and Dr Honor Anthony.


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Executive Summary

· Large studies have shown higher rates of adult and childhood cancer and also
birth defects around municipal waste incinerators: the results are consistent
with the associations being causal. A number of smaller epidemiological
studies support this interpretation and suggest that the range of illnesses
produced by incinerators may be much wider.

· Incinerator emissions are a major source of fine particulates, of toxic metals
and of more than 200 organic chemicals, including known carcinogens,
mutagens, and hormone disrupters. Emissions also contain other unidentified
compounds whose potential for harm is as yet unknown, as was once the case
with dioxins. Since the nature of waste is continually changing, so is the
chemical nature of the incinerator emissions and therefore the potential for
adverse health effects.

· Present safety measures are designed to avoid acute toxic effects in the
immediate neighbourhood, but ignore the fact that many of the pollutants
bioaccumulate, enter the food chain and can cause chronic illnesses over time
and over a much wider geographical area. No official attempts have been
made to assess the effects of emissions on long-term health.

· Incinerators produce bottom and fly ash which amount to 30-50% by volume
of the original waste (if compacted), and require transportation to landfill
sites. Abatement equipment in modern incinerators merely transfers the toxic
load, notably that of dioxins and heavy metals, from airborne emissions to the
fly ash. This fly ash is light, readily windborne and mostly of low particle size.
It represents a considerable and poorly understood health hazard.

· Two large cohort studies in America have shown that fine (PM2.5) particulate
air pollution causes increases in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality
and mortality from lung cancer, after adjustment for other factors. A more
recent, well-designed study of morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal
women has confirmed this, showing a 76% increase in cardiovascular and
83% increase in cerebrovascular mortality in women exposed to higher levels
of fine particulates. These fine particulates are primarily produced by
combustion processes and are emitted in large quantities by incinerators.

· Higher levels of fine particulates have been associated with an increased
prevalence of asthma and COPD.

· Fine particulates formed in incinerators in the presence of toxic metals and
organic toxins (including those known to be carcinogens), adsorb these
pollutants and carry them into the blood stream and into the cells of the body.

· Toxic metals accumulate in the body and have been implicated in a range of
emotional and behavioural problems in children including autism, dyslexia,
attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning difficulties, and
delinquency, and in problems in adults including violence, dementia,
depression and Parkinson’s disease. Increased rates of autism and learning
disabilities have been noted to occur around sites that release mercury into the
environment. Toxic metals are universally present in incinerator emissions and
present in high concentrations in the fly ash.

· Susceptibility to chemical pollutants varies, depending on genetic and
acquired factors, with the maximum impact being on the foetus. Acute exposure
can lead to sensitisation of some individuals, leaving them with lifelong

low dose chemical sensitivity.

· Few chemical combinations have been tested for toxicity, even though
synergistic effects have been demonstrated in the majority of cases when this
testing has been done. This synergy could greatly increase the toxicity of the
pollutants emitted, but this danger has not been assessed.

· Both cancer and asthma have increased relentlessly along with
industrialisation, and cancer rates have been shown to correlate geographically
with both toxic waste treatment facilities and the presence of chemical
industries, pointing to an urgent need to reduce our exposure.

· In the UK, some incinerators burn radioactive material producing radioactive
particulates. Inhalation allows entry into the body of this radioactive material
which can subsequently emit alpha or beta radiation. This type of radiation has
low danger outside the body but is highly destructive within. No studies have
been done to assess the danger to health of these radioactive emissions.

· Some chemical pollutants such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and
heavy metals are known to cause genetic changes. This represents not only a
risk to present generations but to future generations.

· Monitoring of incinerators has been unsatisfactory in the lack of rigor, the
infrequency of monitoring, the small number of compounds measured, the
levels deemed acceptable, and the absence of biological monitoring. Approval
of new installations has depended on modelling data, supposed to be scientific
measures of safety, even though the method used has no more than a 30%
accuracy of predicting pollutants levels correctly and ignores the important
problems of secondary particulates and chemical interactions.

· It has been claimed that modern abatement procedures render the emissions
from incinerators safe, but this is impossible to establish and would apply only
to emissions generated under standard operating conditions. Of much more
concern are non-standard operating conditions including start-up and shutdown
when large volumes of pollutants are released within a short period of
time. Two of the most hazardous emissions – fine particulates and heavy
metals – are relatively resistant to removal.

· The safety of new incinerator installations cannot be established in advance
and, although rigorous independent health monitoring might give rise to
suspicions of adverse effects on the foetus and infant within a few years, this
type of monitoring has not been put in place, and in the short term would not
reach statistical significance for individual installations. Other effects, such as
adult cancers, could be delayed for at least ten to twenty years. It would
therefore be appropriate to apply the precautionary principle here.

· There are now alternative methods of dealing with waste which would avoid
the main health hazards of incineration, would produce more energy and
would be far cheaper in real terms, if the health costs were taken into account.

· Incinerators presently contravene basic human rights as stated by the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights, in particular the Right to Life under
the European Human Rights Convention, but also the Stockholm Convention
and the Environmental Protection Act of 1990. The foetus, infant and child
are most at risk from incinerator emissions: their rights are therefore being
ignored and violated, which is not in keeping with the concept of a just society. Nor is the present policy of locating incinerators in deprived areas
where their health effects will be maximal: this needs urgent review.

· Reviewing the literature for the second edition has confirmed our earlier
conclusions. Recent research, including that relating to fine and ultrafine
particulates, the costs of incineration, together with research investigating nonstandard
emissions from incinerators, has demonstrated that the hazards of
incineration are greater than previously realised. The accumulated evidence on
the health risks of incinerators is simply too strong to ignore and their use
cannot be justified now that better, cheaper and far less hazardous methods of
waste disposal have become available. We therefore conclude that no more
incinerators should be approved.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Why Does EPA-Ireland Not Effectively Monitor Deadly Particles?

In Pennsylvania newspapers publish real-time deadly particle data, with explanations.


"Children with asthma can avoid the increased risk of an attack when PM 2.5 levels are high, and school districts can refer to the monitor on high pollution days to make informed decisions about calling off outdoor activities."Why Does EPA Ireland Prevent Publication
of
Real Time Data on Deadly Particles?

  • Why Does EPA-Ireland Not Effectively Monitor Deadly Particles?
  • Why is an ex 10-year-EPA-Director working for the Waste-To-Toxins incineration industry in Dublin at Rathcoole and Poolbeg?
  • Why did EPA-Ireland only issue a piece of paper about the Chromium-6 in Cork?

In August 2008 people were observed using hand-held instrumentation in the Poolbeg Area. The instrumentation used X-Rays to analyse local pollution, including heavy metals. The researchers claimed not to be funded by the EPA. Apparently the results have not been published. Why?


An incinerator is a gigantic deadly particle generator. Scientists and health experts have been unable to identify a safe level of exposure to these particles (“PM2.5”). PM 2.5 particles are about 30 times smaller than a human hair; several thousand of them could fit on the period of a typed sentence. Due to their extremely small size, particles travel deeply into the respiratory tract, reaching the deepest recesses of the lungs.

Monitors can provide data on PM 2.5, a fine air particulate linked to a variety of heart and lung ailments, in real time on an ongoing basis.


In Pennsylvania, pollution levels will be printed daily in the newspaper on the weather page and hour-by-hour updates will be posted on The Sentinel’s Web site.

“By continually providing the level of PM 2.5, CAB and its partners are hopeful this will actually improve area resident’s health.

“If they see it’s high and don’t go out and exercise,

that should keep some people out of the emergency room,”

Benjey said.”



Click this link for more information:
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/09/23/news/local/doc48d8df036b3b0762700325.txt


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Banana Republic's EPA

There may be good scientists in EPA-Ireland. However, with the director level revolving doors between EPA-Ireland and the waste-to-toxins industry ... The Bush Administration threatens its own EPA scientists.

Directors at EPA-Ireland do not provide actionable public data on deadly particles (“PM2.5, PM1.0”). It appears this is their “proof” there is no problem, an agenda of curious benefit to their future or past employers in the Waste-To-Toxins business. Generators of PM2.5 and of PM1.0 pollution such as power stations and cement plants are not identified and quantified. Real time data is not published. Health studies are not done to reinforce the "you have no proof" Big Lie.

Apparently Covanta (Poolbeg & Luxembourg) & Covanta-Energy-Answers (Rathcoole & Virgin Islands) have hired an ex-EPA Director to “consult” with the government. Covanta wants two Waste-To-Toxins incinerators at Poolbeg & Rathcoole. Covanta has been fined for law-breaking (dioxins - at all plants in New Jersey). Tobacco companies have also hired 'consultants' from regulators. Do Drug Dealers hire ex-Gardai?

Cork Harbour was polluted with Chromium-6 when the ex-Director was at the EPA, allegedly. Apparently EPA-Ireland just issued a piece of paper. Is this deception? Have there been deadly consequences in Cork?


Clean air initiative in Carlisle

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/09/23/news/local/doc48d8df036b3b0762700325.txt

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sandymount Sold Down The River Liffey By Labour?

Sandymount Sold Down The River Liffey By Labour?

Labour's Role in the Gormleymander of Sandymount.
http://www.electoralareacommittees.ie/Submissions%20Received/final_received_city/Cllr%20Kevin%20Humpherys%20South%20East%20Inner%20City%20Dublin.pdf


Has Councillor Humphreys been working with FF's Green Party and Sinn Fein to carve up Sandymount?

Why?

Councillor Humphreys provides a series of excellent arguments. First he clearly shows the damage created by a gerrymander. Then he moves on to the oxymoronic conclusion that this justifies carving up the historic Village of Sandymount.

Chinese style planning in Sandymount
Basically Councillor Humphreys seems to strongly support Sandymount being taken over by the anti-democratic Dublin Docklands Developers Authority. Because Sandymount was secretly added to the DDDA empire, in the dictatorial FF manner, the Councillor seems to be on board with the sophisticated strategic DDDA team players in their agenda to wedge Sandymount into their inner city brand, going forward. Councillor Humphreys seems to be an enthusiastic proponent of applying Chinese Section 25 planning to Sandymount.

Pejorative Big Lies
Councillor Humphreys motives are perhaps hinted at by his political use of the word affluent, a pejorative term often cynically applied to Sandymount(a). This appears to be similar to Dublin City Council's apparent usage of the equally pejorative Dublin 4 when spinning in the media for the Waste-To-Toxins incinerator. Hasn't President Bush adopted similar divide & rule politics to further vested interests such as Haliburton?

Zero Leadership
What results have local politicians actually achieved - for the public as opposed to themselves - on the most important local issue, the proposed Poolbeg Waste-To-Toxins incinerator? Pro-forma submissions to rigged Oral Hearings are not something to boast about. Most local politicians, especially the FF-Greens, have provided zero local leadership. This total lack of effective leadership to unite the people of Sandymount, Ringsend and Irishtown on the most important local issue is very curious. The gerrymander seems to prove this opinion.

The actual outcomes achieved by politicians in 2007 & 2008 are:
  1. Autocratic Chinese style planning in Sandymount, Ringsend & Poolbeg
  2. Gormleymandered division of Sandymount
  3. An ah sure we did our best Waste-To-Toxins incinerator.
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Councillor Humphreys Words Translated From The Original Nederlands

Councillor Humphreys Double Dutch:
Agencies like the HSE and the Drug Task Force operate across the entirety of the SEIC ward and separating this ward will make it more difficult for the synergy of services needed to combat the distinct challenges facing the community

Translated
Carving up Sandymount means the HSE can take money from Sandymount people and give the money to drug-addicts in the inner-city. Old people in Sandymount can now go whistle for a district nurse or for home care. The drug-dealers can develop houses in Sandymount, no questions asked; just cash.

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Councillor Humphreys Double Dutch:
Dublin Dockland Development Authority remit on the south side of the City covers the Pembroke East … This interaction the DDDA fosters is creating a common identity within the Docklands and its hinterland that is binding the communities together, creating a community spirit.

Translated
Councillor Humphreys fully supports DDDA's land-grab into Sandymount and fully supports Fianna Fail's Dick Roach who apparently signed off on this feat in 2007. Furthermore Councillor Humphreys seems to fully support the expensive campaign of Big Lies from the DDDA – Big Lies used solely to benefit The Galway Tent banks and building developers.

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Councillor Humphreys Double Dutch:
It is integral that the current composition of the SEIC ward remains intact.

Breaking up these areas will diminish the Councils capacity to co-ordinate efficiently.

If the is carved up again it will hinder an agency like X from operating in an efficient manner.

Interaction between elected officials and the Gardai has increased .. It makes no sense to split the jurisdiction.

This area would be best represented if it was left consolidated, instead of being marginalised in a larger area.


Translated
Councillor Humphreys seems to fully supports dis-integrating, breaking up, carving up, splitting, dis-intermediating and marginalising Sandymount.

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Councillor Humphreys Double Dutch:
Move Pembroke East B [half of Sandymount] ... which [is] part of the hinterland of the Docklands and would be more appropriately placed in the X ward due to the development of the Poolbeg Peninsula by DDDA under section 25 of the planning act.

Translated
Councillor Humphreys absolutely seems to fully support Chinese style authoritarian planning in Sandymount.

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(a) The Galway Tent's rigging of local house prices means only drug dealers trading in the SEIC can now afford to buy houses in Sandymount.

(b) SEIC

Monday, November 3, 2008

Giant Sellafield Nuclear Waste Incinerator Proposed


Giant incinerator plan for Sellafield

A business plan is in the advanced stages for a GIANT incinerator to burn nuclear and domestic waste near Sellafield.

Maybe Dublin City Council can bid for some of this action. After all the Germans have imported radioactive waste from the mafia in Naples to fund their "modern" Hamburg incinerator. But at first the Germans claimed they did not know it included radioactive waste - did they expect Homer or the Irish-EPA to do a site inspection?

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More: http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/1.263434