Yesterday I attended an outdoor panel discussion in a park in downtown Harrisburg featuring local leaders working to stop an array of environmental disasters. I drove out with the president of Save Carbon County. She discussed the effort to prevent a crypto-currency operation in Nesquehoning from burning rubber tire shreds to produce electricity for a bitcoin mining operation. Since the plant is already burning dirty culm piles, this is adding more pollution to pollution.
One woman detailed the fight against “chemical recycling” of plastics. The Western PA plant will wash the plastic waste and supposedly return the water to the river “cleaner” than it was when taken from the river. The materials produced would include an array of toxic chemicals. The plant will be on a hundred-year flood plain.
Another local leader discussed the fight against using old fracking wells to inject toxic liquid waste into the ground. We also heard about a fight to stop an LNG plant in Chester County to be built without permits.
And so it went. Pennsylvania is amazingly bad. First came the lumber industry, then coal and oil, Three Mile Island, and now fracking for “natural gas.” If money is to be made, the environment be damned.
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