Hazardous Waste

On 1/3/06, passionate “environmentalist” Tom Edwards, sent me a letter signed by Tom defining “hazardous waste”. He referred me to the Environmental Protection Act Sec. 3.220 Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.) I read the 11 line paragraph defining hazardous waste and saw no mention that hazardous waste was “toxic”. The act says that hazardous waste is a “potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, and transported or disposed of.

On 4/6/06 I received a hand delivered message from Mr. Edwards, who lives at 2702 N. Peoria Ave., stating that hazardous waste is “Toxic”.
Over a period of time I received a series of messages from Mr. Edwards with conflicting contents. One document stated that a landfill in New Jersey was found to cause considerable health problems. The document was dated 1997. Yet nine years later, no environmentalist or concerned doctors, have found any reason to study the landfill in Peoria operated by PDC. No testimony was presented to show any pollution of ANY kind, any disease or any adverse affect on the community that could be PROVEN to be caused by the hazardous waste landfill.

In 1997, Mr. Edwards gave me an article that said Caterpillar set out to develop a process that for the first time ever, recycle 100 percent of hazardous waste and eliminate landfills. Nine years later, no follow-up results were forth coming from Mr. Edwards. Hmmmmm.

On 2/15/06 the Peoria Times Observer said “IEPA disputes claims against toxic waste dump”. Mr. Edwards is quoted as saying that the Illinois Environmental Agency is “lying”. The IPEA was disputing Mr. Edwards’s constant rants that PDC was accepting the most toxic wastes in the land. The letter from IPEA says “it is simply NOT true that the wastes disposed in the PDC hazardous waste landfill are the most “toxic waste known to mankind”. Yet Mr. Edwards thru his constant barrage of half truths has convinced this community that the Coulter families are polluters and enemies of the community. Mr. Edwards has numerous times stretched the truth in order to strike terror in the heart of many of the people in this community.

He says there are no “random” spot checks for waster pollutants conducted by the EPA. Wow! He insinuates that PDC changes the water quality because they know the IEPA is coming to check!! Wow, what wizards are these hard working well educated employees at PDC.

Another time, to get a point across, a leading community environmentalist, left out a whole paragraph from a quote taken from a letter from the IEPA. This part left out changed the whole meaning to the environmentalist advantage and mislead the readers printed in the Observer. DeWayne Bartels caught the omission and printed an article pointing out the obvious discrepancy. DeWayne, help me out, I have temporarily misplaced the file.

I’ll blog more on quoted and printed lies and half truths later. I’m calling it a night!! And a bad night for the so-called democratic process.