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Friday, December 12, 2014

Pa. Gov. Wolf, please cancel $8.75 million R-cap grant awarded to Perdue

To the Honorable Governor-Elect Tom Wolf:

Thank you for providing your transition website and email access to accept feedback as Pennsylvania confronts enormous debt.

As reported in the media, has Perdue yet to be actually given the $8.75 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Grant awarded in 2010 for a toxic, hexane-releasing facility that remains unconstructed -- and the DEP has yet to approve -- at this Lancaster County, Pa. location near Three Mile Island?:
  
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Lancaster, Pa. Newspapers, 8/10/11

If so, will you cancel the $8.75 million grant?
If Perdue has already been given the money, will you request its return? 
    
     1. The R-cap grant was awarded before the DEP could even start considering the facility's planned release of large amounts of the dangerous neurotoxin hexane into Susquehanna Valley air.
  
     2. All these years later, even under Gov. Tom Corbett, the DEP continues to notpermit Perdue to yearly release hundreds of tons of toxic hexane.
  
     3. It's now time to finally:

STOP PERDUE'S PLANS TO POISON PA.
AIR WITH THE NEUROTOXIN HEXANE:
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My 2012 video about Perdue's now 4-year-old plans to poison Pennsylvanians for profit -- with a factory that needlessly releases large amounts of the hazardous neurotoxin hexane -- is posted here:

Sincerely,

Ray Wallace
York, Pa.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amazing the lengths people will go to strike fear into others to ward off progress without the first fact to present. Seeing this video reminds me of Kindergarten. I have lived within a mile of a hexane tank facility, and downwind, I might add, and there is no ill effects among anyone in our neighborhood and surrounding area. I am now 60 yoa, and have been here half of my life, and am enjoying a very rich and healthy life.

Kindergarten videos are cute, though.

Anonymous said...

Enjoying Perdue's hexane pollution for so long has obviously rotted what’s left of the brains of the author of the first comment. What an awful childhood he must have had to make him think that Perdue’s polluting children’s air with deadly hexane is a “cute” reminder of kindergarten!

Anonymous said...

Where will chicken come from after the domestic market is destroyed? China? Yeah, they have a great environmental and safety record! Arsenic in baby formula! Of course, one can buy pastured chicken at $4/lb.

Anonymous said...

It’s not factory-farm chickens that Perdue is polluting with waste hexane. It’s human families. Human children and the elderly are especially at risk from breathing the hexane that Perdue insists on releasing into public air from its soybean factories. It’s just cheaper for Perdue to dump this crap directly into your air than to safely dispose of it like other responsible companies do.

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...
Where will chicken come from after the domestic market is destroyed? China? Yeah, they have a great environmental and safety record! Arsenic in baby formula! Of course, one can buy pastured chicken at $4/lb.

December 12, 2014 at 7:38 AM"

Unfortunately through the EPA and other government agencies, Big Agri business has seen to it that no one can open an independent processing plant. It's they who are behind the regulations as a way around the anti trust laws.
They feign outrage when new regulations are implemented and/or proposed but it's all a farce. They want the industry highly regulated and massive fees imposed to keep small companies out.
If the country had more independent processing plants able to handle large quantities the prices would go down.
China imports could be ended very quickly if not for the democrats-Clinton free trade ring a bell.
If we taxed the hell out of imports no one would buy. That won't happen though with Obama because ALL democrat politicians have their heads shoved up the butts of big business.

Anonymous said...

They are coming out with technology that you can take a handheld device and instantly tell if GMO's are in the food you are testing.

That was last year so it might already be out. I'm not sure.

Anonymous said...

No one here mentions the taxpayer millions being given to Perdue in corporate welfare. Why give Perdue a penny to continue abusing people as routinely as Perdue abuses factory chickens? Forbes conservatively documents Perdue’s 2013 profits at $6 billion. That doesn’t give Perdue the right to profit even more by needlessly dumping dangerous chemicals into the very air you and your family breathe.

Anonymous said...

"No one here mentions the taxpayer millions being given to Perdue in corporate welfare. Why give Perdue a penny to continue abusing people"

I've brought this up before. They import foreign people to work under the guise of not being able to find American workers. This to keep wages low. I'm as right wing as you can get (putting that out there), but when you are paying someone to do a horrible job, not many will do it.
Those that are doing it, are paid so low that they receive welfare benefits (tax payers are paying for their employees) and are straining the non profits that help with food, clothing, school supplies, Christmas presents, etc.