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reports that wpop-to-energy emits
carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous
oxide (N20), both greenhouse
gases. N20 is 300 times more
potent, with longer-term effect,
than C02.
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Our waste legacy
r. Landfills have always been the
Harmful incinerators ' cheapest way to dispose of trash
It is my understanding that they in the short term, but making a
can't approve the incinerator until new one does not make sense
an EIS is done, which hasn't hap unless we choose to continue to
pened yet. I have never seen an ignore the long-term degradation
EIS for an incinerator that didn't j of the atmosphFre that landfills
tr show unacceptable levels of lead cause.
mercury and other toxins being It's foolish to expect solutions
given off. to be cheap. Waste-to-energy
Several months age, the mayor . requires a large investment, but in
r said he would not approve an the long term it will pay a divi-
incinerator if it would cause any' de4d that will be measured in -the
harm. Since the mayor is a man of rate at which the am rise and
'finis word, I don't think an incin- inundate the coastal areas of our
7 erator is in our future, planet.
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mean it's not real, or that our
Dan rM GINkNIM . descendants will not pay for our
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In the Tribune-Herald article, quences of our decisions.
x 'A case to incinerate," (Satur- We offer tp harsh judgments of
i r E V a day, March 15) this statement past poicymalaers for being short-
Q by Frank Ferraro, Wheelabrator sighted about the environment,
o vice-president of public affairs but they didn't know much about
is false: "That's where waste-to- ecology. We do.
energy technology is a real asset, Will historians of the future
w waste-to-energy facilities actually be more forgiving' of our poor
avoid greenhouse gas emissions." choices, despite the warnings of
The U.S. Environmental Fro- science? I doubt it
tection Agency (httpl/www.epa. : 44/ Jesse Crawford
gov/climatechange/emissions) Hilo
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