Text Below from the freep:
“The City of Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will host public hearings Thursday on the Brownfield Tax Credit for the Detroit incinerator.
An informational session will be held at 5:30 p.m. The hearing on Detroit Thermal, which would purchase steam from the incinerator, begins at 6 p.m. and will be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a hearing on the incinerator, to be owned by Detroit Renewable Energy.
The meetings will be held at the College for Creative Studies in the Walter B. Ford Classroom Building Auditorium on Frederick Douglass Street, between Brush and St. Antoine.
The proposed tax credit is $4.195 million for the projects.
The Title V operating permit for the Detroit incinerator expired in December 2008; no new permit has been issued.”
I’m sick of my air smelling like garbage when I ride home.
Not like “impatient,” but like “I think my quality of life is decreased because we burn our trash.”
That’s not an incinerator smell. That’s just decomposing garbage. It smells the same riding past the SOCRRA transfer station site in Troy. Closing the incinerator might not affect that smell at all if they maintain is as a transfer station.
I mean, come on, Todd. You’re either with the incinerator or against it. =0)
In all seriousness though, I ride past the incinerator and all sorts of other trash sites on my way to and from work, and the incinerator smells unmistakably of burning trash. Don’t you want that to stop?
When it was shut down for a brief stint, every person and household I know on Farnsworth and the surrounding areas commented on the improvement to their air quality, and the instances of asthma etc. around that area are in some cases 3x as much as other communities further away from the incinerator (Hockman, Journal of Env. Planning and Management).
I mean, evidence can be found that it’s the freeways fault that all those folks have decreased air quality, and not the incinerator, I suppose. But doesn’t the trash-burning industry blaming the fuel-burning industry seem a little…off?
further reading below from our own metro times, michigan policy network and icta, but really it’s not about scientific evidence and stats. the vast majority of folks truly impacted by this aren’t you or I, but folks without access to internet, stats classes, or science fairs.
http://www.michiganpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=909:detroit-incinerator-vs-landfills-and-recylcing-programs&catid=39:energy-and-environment-policy-briefs&Itemid=138
http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12902
http://www.icta.org/doc/In-car%20pollution%20report.pdf