Chemicals buried at WT Farms (WT ruining the earth) (page 2)

botchtowersociety

The Botchtower's Jehober likes to dump toxins too.

wasblind

Rebel8 and Burns

are really diggin' up stuff that the WTS would truly want buried

in light of this chemical dumpin' mess created by them

as snowbird ( syl ) would say " Tee hee hee"

wasblind

Hey Burn's,

is that what the WTS really printed on the bottom of that page ????

just askin'

yeah wasblind, that's what they printed. However that polluted air was meant metaphorically as in Satan has polluted the air with false teachings. We have to be careful not to breathe in that polluted air. At least that's how I remember it.

NC

botchtowersociety

No what I mean is that they poured out Jehovah's 55 gallon drums of wrath on the land.

undercover

I guess they were prophets after all...

NewChapter

LOL---so THAT's what's in them thar bowls.

WTWizard

Did they know the chemicals were so harmful when they dumped them, law or no law? If they did and they dumped them on purpose, that is unethical if only because it shows a double standard. And, if they refuse to pay for a clean up, it also shows they are not willing to abide by their own standards. They bash someone for improperly disposing a single CFL bulb, but they themselves don't clean up a mess they make.

And this is not the only incident where they are responsible for excessive pollution. Has anyone else seen a recycling bin at a Kingdumb Hell? I never did. They put glass, #1 and #2 plastic, recyclable paper, and aluminum cans in the rubbish instead of recycling them. They waste energy by improperly maintaining climate control, polluting even more at the power plant. They drive around aimlessly placing littera-trash, which was printed at pollution cost at the site where they cut down the trees. This also wastes gas, puts carbon dioxide in the air (which they subscribe to the man-made global warming scam), and pollutes needlessly.

Also, what did the world gain in value for this pollution? If they were getting something that was worth the pollution (a life-saving technology, for instance), I would be willing to look the other way. Likewise, if people are better off for the effort than they are worse off for the pollution, that is acceptable. But, if society is losing more because of the pollution than they are gaining from the product, it is what I term "stupid pollution". And, when all they put out is rubbish, any pollution generated in the process (whether harvesting the raw materials, transporting things, or pollution generated at the site) is stupid pollution.

Momma-Tossed-Me

This was from the Awake 1980 11/22

"Just the Tip of the Iceburg"

How many more “Love Canals” are in the making?

“THERE are thousands of these dumps all over the country. The Love Canal could be a forerunner of many similar incidents to come.” So reported Dr. Clark Heath of the Federal Center for Disease Control. “The Love Canal situation is just the tip of the iceberg.” Exaggeration? Consider the following:

LOUISIANA—Deadly swamps. Devil’s Swamp, formerly teeming with wildlife, was virtually destroyed by the dumping of millions of gallons of deadly chemicals. Nearby pasture land was contaminated resulting in 149 cattle deaths. Over 540 acres (220 ha) were totally poisoned. In a residential area near another swamp people waked in the night choking. Dogs who ran into the woods came out with parts of their hair falling off. In one of the reported 40,000 dump sites in the state, a truck driver was killed while dumping wastes because of the toxic fumes.

IOWA—“It’ll make Love Canal look like a picnic.” Near Charles City, Salsbury Laboratories dumped countless tons of chemical wastes into a former sand and gravel pit. Included were reportedly nearly a million cubic feet (28,300 m3) of deadly arsenic waste. Chemical contamination has now been found in the surrounding groundwater, a nearby river and in wells of the city of Waterloo, 50 miles (80 km) away! The area has a “higher-than-normal incidence of bladder cancer.” But of immediate danger is the nearby water aquifer (natural groundwater) that supplies over 300,000 people. “If this stuff gets into the aquifer and spreads, it’ll make Love Canal look like a picnic,” warned Department of Environmental Quality official Charles Miller.

TENNESSEE—300,000 barrels of poison. In Hardeman County, Velsicol Chemical Corporation reportedly buried these in trenches under three feet (1 m) of dirt. Banned pesticides, 40 times as powerful as DDT, leached out into the groundwater. Nearby wells were closed when residents complained of dizziness, loss of hair, kidney pains, liver disorders, respiratory problems, nausea, limb numbness, even birth defects.

NEW JERSEY—“One of the most hazardous spots in the United States,” is how one public official described the place where 34,000 barrels of leaking chemical waste were stored by the Chemical Control Corporation near Elizabeth. The recent removal of 10,000 of these containing the most lethal chemicals, prevented a disaster of monstrous extent. On April 22, 1980, the worst happened. Just minutes away from the 8 million people of New York city, the site exploded into flames. The intense heat caused some of the barrels to rocket 200 feet (60 m) into the air. There was fear of widespread chemical contamination as a huge black cloud formed. Favorable winds saved the situation. “We were within a hairsbreadth of disaster,” stated the director of Health, Welfare and Housing in Elizabeth. In less than a week another chemical fire struck in Bayonne. Other sites have burned since. Residents reportedly have one of the highest cancer rates in the nation.

England, Mexico, Japan and Canada have also reported problems with the storage and illegal dumping of toxic wastes. Chemical wastes are now considered the worst water contaminants because they resist natural breaking-down processes and tend to collect in animal and human bodies.

Yet “the drinking water in many cities has hundreds of chemicals in it,” reports a federal health official. “We don’t know how they act together. Do they add, multiply or cancel?” Their long-term effects are so gradual they are hard to detect, until the damage—cancer, birth defects, and so forth—becomes obvious, then it is usually too late!

Thousands of acres of land world wide have been contaminated. “It’s like a nightmare,” bemoaned David Evill, a resident of Louisiana. “Only the nightmare is real and it’s our own land and it’s destroyed for all time.”

However, are there any solutions for the handling of chemical wastes? What can be done? Is there a satisfying answer to this critical situation?

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According to the EPA, there are 32,000 to 51,000 chemical dump sites in the United States. Upward of 2,000 have rotting, leaking barrels and could become “imminent health hazards”

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Could this dump site be another Love Canal in the making? It is one of 215 listed by the EPA in two counties of New York State

Momma-Tossed-Me

This was from the 11/22/80 Awake as well:

Chemical Dumps Are Ticking Time Bombs

“BETTER Things for Better Living Through Chemistry.” During the 1930’s that was a slogan that heralded a new age. However, little did anyone suspect these “better things” would create an “environmental Frankenstein’s monster.”

People were then delighted with new products created by chemicals. Our wardrobes, homes and cars became filled with nylons, rayons, cellophanes and plastics. New “miracle” pesticides and man-made fertilizers multiplied our food. Scientists were then praised for “creating new things that Nature forgot.”

But millions of gallons of chemical wastes came with these “new things that Nature forgot.” Tragically, these wastes were often carelessly dumped. “The stuff was tucked away,” said Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Steffen Plehn. “It was out of sight, out of mind”—forgotten, but not for long.

One huge dumping site was an abandoned water canal in New York State (U.S.A.) near famous Niagara Falls. The waterway was named after its builder, William Love, who, back in 1894, attempted to join two rivers and create a model city. His dream failed and all that remained was Love Canal, an uncompleted mile-long (1.6 km) ditch, 10 to 40 feet deep and generally 45 feet wide.

By the tons, chemical waste, most packaged in 55-gallon (208-L) drums, were cast by a new owner into Mr. Love’s canal. From the 1920’s through 1953 Hooker Chemical Company reportedly admitted to dumping 21,800 tons of chemicals there. The city of Niagara Falls added its share. So allegedly did the U.S. Army. Then in 1953 this witches’ brew was covered with earth and allowed to “cook” as barrels rotted and the chemicals combined.

The land was “sold” by Hooker Chemical to the Board of Education of Niagara Falls for $1.00 (U.S.). A school and housing development were built on the site. Soon a pleasant neighborhood settled on this massive chemical graveyard.

The “time bomb” was set, and now ticking. It was destined to “explode” with such impact that this spot would become front-page news and the focus of international attention. It became what may “very well be the first of a new and sinister breed of environmental disasters,” according to a special report sent to the governor of New York State.

Does this incident provide substantial evidence that man is “ruining the earth,” unlike in any other period in history? Does it perhaps portend that soon God will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth” by divine action? These are significant questions to ponder as you read what chemical wastes have done.—Rev. 11:18.

But just how sinister was this offspring of the ‘new thing that nature forgot’? What effect did it have on the lives of those living on the site? The following exclusive interview with a family who lived on top of this public health time bomb provides some startling answers.

Chemicals buried at WT Farms (WT ruining the earth)

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