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Re: Toxic cleanup must come before freight
Author: moral?
Date: 05-08-2009 - 11:54
BOB2 Wrote:
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> As a member of the Sierra Club, a member supported
> organization, who's worked against a number of
> morally questionable polluters I find some of the
> comments amusing.
You can bet that the Sierra Club will be against a large open pit mine on a wild and scenic river.
I am not fine with
> thousands to trucks on the road spewing diesel and
> sucking up oil. I guess it's immoral to mine
> gravel and ship it by rail, but perfectly moral to
> mine it and spew out green house gases, or toxic
> soot when shipping it by truck?
There is no gravel being trucked from this mine right now so the train will not remove any from the highway. The train will spew more diesel and suck up more oil than the non-existent trucks.
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> As a member of the Sierra Club, a member supported
> organization, who's worked against a number of
> morally questionable polluters I find some of the
> comments amusing.
You can bet that the Sierra Club will be against a large open pit mine on a wild and scenic river.
I am not fine with
> thousands to trucks on the road spewing diesel and
> sucking up oil. I guess it's immoral to mine
> gravel and ship it by rail, but perfectly moral to
> mine it and spew out green house gases, or toxic
> soot when shipping it by truck?
There is no gravel being trucked from this mine right now so the train will not remove any from the highway. The train will spew more diesel and suck up more oil than the non-existent trucks.
