November 09, 2005 12:51PM
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I'm taking a graduate class on contemporary China right now. In one of the books we're reading it is documented that the coal mined in China is of worse quality than most places. Some of China's coal has unusually high sulfur content. Mercury is not mentioned at all in connection with coal burning in the very environmentalist slanted books I'm reading. Among the most pressing issues the Chinese are having is safety within the mines, and pollution from all the coal burning factories and power plants. Pollution has increased 24 fold for sulfur dioxide and 17 fold for particulate matter. This is mainly due to inefficient coking plants, insufficient combustion, and inadequate coal cleaning capacities. China has been rapidly industrializing for the past 50 years, with little or no regard for the environment. Many of the Chinese are also dying from cancer related to smoking, not just pollution.
For our friend in Durango to compare the D&S to China is retarded. Maybe he should move to China and help their pollution problems, as they are much worse off there.
And further, here is a little commentary of my own regarding the citizens of south Durango.
Brett Francois, an environmental specialist with the San Juan Basin Health Department who has lived in the South Side for five months, is considering moving. The smoke, he said, frequently turns the coat of his white dog black.
"It (the dog) is not dirty from playing in mud or anything," said Francois, who specializes in air-quality. "It's probably the train smoke."
For an alleged “air quality specialist” he doesn’t sound too sure.
And if his dog is dirty, Francois wonders about his own lungs.
"I love it over there," he said. "But the train smoke is driving me nuts."
You would think he would have known before he moved there five months ago that there was a coal burning train present. Would you move to a home near the airport and expect the planes to stop flying.
One man, Bob Prentice, blamed the train in part for his wife's death from cancer.
What is the other part that explains for his wife’s cancer? Did she smoke? How can the train be “partly responsible?”
Lainie Lowndes held up an air filter blackened with soot. "I in no way want to shut the train down," she said. "But I think we can do better than this."
How long had the filter been in use no one asks. I spent the last 4 years living in the desert, there was lots of dust in my filter as a result. Maybe the state of Nevada should do something about it, I think they can do better.
These imbeciles have all of their grievances aired in the newspaper, but they have no proof, no documentation, just a lot of crying and speculation. I may think I at times sound like an industrialist, but if they care so much about the environment, why don't they focus their energies where it is really needed. Stop driving their suv's and move to China where they really need help.
Sorry to be so long winded.
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