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We are Residents
Against Pollution, a group of alert citizens from
Cumberland County, Virginia. We are tax payers and
family members, and most importantly we are
patriots. We rise now because we have uncovered
some alarming facts regarding the alleged
reliability of certain key components of the
proposed landfill in our county. This community has
been forced to make the decision whether to suffer
the quick death to outlandishly high taxes, or a
slow death at the hands of the worst polluters on
the planet.
A common tactic of these waste corporations is
to swarm into financially strapped communities
hoping to attract industry (like Cumberland) and
overwhelm it's officials with promises of quick
loans and dividends ranging in the millions.
Envisioning schools and well-staffed public
emergency centers -- they promise whatever it is
the community needs most. These tactics are akin to
offering the sick and dying medicine at inflated
prices -- and to those that were caught selling
water to Hurricane victims in the Gulf!
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Despite Popular Opinion, The Creation Of A
Landfill Does Concern You. The residents of
this county are suffering from a form of cognitive
dissonance (when your view of reality and reality
itself don't match). This is obvious because
studies indicate that the presence of noxious and
carcinogenic gases are present well beyond the
property barriers of all landfills. Additionally,
high incidences of cancer and birth defects have
been observed in residents that live in
proximity.
US EPA itself admits that hazardous liquids,
known as leachate actually find their way through
woefully inadequate liners and deposit chemicals
such as arsenic, lead, and PCB's,
Which in turn contaminate the food we eat in a
process known as Bioaccumulation.US EPA
may have known this since as early as 1979, yet
because of the threat of major lawsuits, signed off
on a flawed technology. This flawed technology has
over the past two decades become the industry
standard for all landfills.
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Allied
Waste and other large waste handlers
eye-balling our community are banking on the notion
that you are simply unaware of most of these facts.
Local governments are particularly vulnerable to
liability for environmental violations resulting in
fines, criminal penalties, and litigation.
In addition, state and federal cleanup laws
(e.g., Superfund) make contractors and arrangers
just as liable as owners and operators of waste
facilities for the full cost of any future cleanup.
For example, a recent audit of potential liability
by DuPage County, Ill., shows that a $232 million
fund is needed for nine closed landfills to cover
expected costs over the next 40 years.
Opposing the landfill does not mean opposing
Cumberland's growth and prosperity... or our
future!
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