Comments on: Koppers: just in time for an election! http://alachuavoterguide.com/blog/2010/03/21/koppers-just-in-time-for-an-election/ Where all politics is local... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:42:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Don Marsh http://alachuavoterguide.com/blog/2010/03/21/koppers-just-in-time-for-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-2473 Don Marsh Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:22:42 +0000 http://alachuavoterguide.com/blog/?p=437#comment-2473 Well, gee wiz, Mr. Information Man, you must be pretty mad at Craig Lowe for telling Koppers to leave! He has taken credit for making them close down! Why would he do such a thing? Maybe it should have been done years ago while it was cheaper and easier to clean this up. An engineer at GRU tells me that we would be in much less trouble if that had been started years ago. Go Google that. Well, gee wiz, Mr. Information Man, you must be pretty mad at Craig Lowe for telling Koppers to leave! He has taken credit for making them close down! Why would he do such a thing? Maybe it should have been done years ago while it was cheaper and easier to clean this up. An engineer at GRU tells me that we would be in much less trouble if that had been started years ago. Go Google that.

]]> By: Brickman Way http://alachuavoterguide.com/blog/2010/03/21/koppers-just-in-time-for-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-2470 Brickman Way Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:11:08 +0000 http://alachuavoterguide.com/blog/?p=437#comment-2470 Look, either you didn't do your research beyond a quick Google search or your are purposefully lying about Koppers. Fundamentally you are confusing a Federal site with something that a local government could afford to control. The contamination at the site goes well beyond the possibility of a simple overnight "clean up", especially in the framework of local financial responsibility. Furthermore, for someone who should be defending employers of Gainesville citizens instead of suggesting that the government should shut them down, to suggest that ejecting a business that operates in a well-regulated way on a site that was contaminated by a previous company (admittedly doing roughly the same business but in a far more modern way) is downright un-American! I'm not necessarily in agreement with all previous actions of the local government, but when it comes to Cabot/Koppers, this kind of political jingoism is irresponsible at best. I am the holder of a Professional Geologist license in the state of Florida, and I approve of every word of this Email. Look, either you didn’t do your research beyond a quick Google search or your are purposefully lying about Koppers. Fundamentally you are confusing a Federal site with something that a local government could afford to control. The contamination at the site goes well beyond the possibility of a simple overnight “clean up”, especially in the framework of local financial responsibility. Furthermore, for someone who should be defending employers of Gainesville citizens instead of suggesting that the government should shut them down, to suggest that ejecting a business that operates in a well-regulated way on a site that was contaminated by a previous company (admittedly doing roughly the same business but in a far more modern way) is downright un-American! I’m not necessarily in agreement with all previous actions of the local government, but when it comes to Cabot/Koppers, this kind of political jingoism is irresponsible at best.

I am the holder of a Professional Geologist license in the state of Florida, and I approve of every word of this Email.

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