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The Hudson River Posts
- Florida Court Rules Polluters Can Be Sued By Fishermen
- Waste Control Specialists Drop the Ball in Texas
- Power Lines Under the Hudson River Topic of Hearings
- GE Continues To Whine About Dredging the Hudson (But At Least a Bit More Quietly)
- Beacon Institute’s Remote Acrobat Sensor Is Online
- Untreated Sewage Entering the Mohawk River
- Real-Time Monitoring of the Hudson Moves Forward
- General Electric’s Challenge to Superfund Law Fails (Again)
- Debate Begins on Indian Point Nuke Plant
- General Electric, PCBs and The Outlaw Josey Wales: Part Deux
- Current Moonphase on The Hudson River
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Florida Court Rules Polluters Can Be Sued By Fishermen
Well, well, well… It looks like the hand puppets might be a tad busy soon and we’re lovin’ it. I wonder if the New York fishing industry has already tried a class-action suit against General Electric for ruining their livelihoods. … Continue reading
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Waste Control Specialists Drop the Ball in Texas
Ah yes, Andrews again. Texas, that is. Waste Control Specialists seem to be dropping the ball a bit and given that the ball is toxic as well as radioactive, well, I’d just as soon they stop playing. Whatchya reckon – … Continue reading
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Power Lines Under the Hudson River Topic of Hearings
I wonder what the electricity will do to organisms – fish, turtles, plants, beaver, muskrats, etc – in and around the water? The environmental impact statement should address issues like this, however… We all know what money and lobbyists can … Continue reading
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GE Continues To Whine About Dredging the Hudson (But At Least a Bit More Quietly)
As press releases / newsbriefs go, this one is weak in the extreme. The current hand puppets seem to be tiring, worn out no doubt by the constant barrage of reality striking them hard in the face. Are replacements in … Continue reading
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Beacon Institute’s Remote Acrobat Sensor Is Online
From the Times Union – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX MOREAU – In its last life, the 29-foot skiff worked the Gulf of Mexico, its owner catching crab and shrimp. Now, it plies the Hudson River, slowly towing a $100,000 … Continue reading
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Real-Time Monitoring of the Hudson Moves Forward
From DredgingToday.com BEACON, NY (6/25) – Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries announced that it has deployed its first of many real-time monitoring stations that will monitor the northern reaches of the Hudson River. Launched in cooperation with General Electric … Continue reading
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General Electric’s Challenge to Superfund Law Fails (Again)
Whoa! I wonder how this latest slap with a wet hand felt? What’s more repugnant, that General Electric wants out of any commitment to clean up all of its toxic messes or that it tries to hide the fact it … Continue reading
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General Electric, PCBs and The Outlaw Josey Wales: Part Deux
Hey! Did you hear John G. Haggard, GE’s Hudson River Project Manager, was recently quoted as saying that there was no comparison between what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico and what he termed “the environmental rebirth of … Continue reading
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Tagged aroclor, Behan Communications, clean water act, cleanup, conservation, contamination, DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dredging, drinking water, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Fort Edward, GE, general electric, Gulf of Mexico, history, Hudson Falls, Hudson River, immoral, Mark Behan, New York, new york state department of environmental conservation, NYSE: GE, NYSE:GE, oil spill, pcb, PCBs, pollution, polychlorinated biphenyls, rivers, superfund site, The Outlaw Josey Wales, toxic, Washington County
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Fate of Rogers Island Still Uncertain
Lots of history on Rogers Island; lots of history in Fort Edward as well. And, of course, lots of PCBs all around the area… – Hudson By CHRIS CAROLA of Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The owner of part … Continue reading
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Baykeeper Urges DEP to Lift Ban on Oyster Restoration Project
I wonder if General Electric and their hand puppets are learning anything from watching BP’s oil spill disaster unfold in the Gulf of Mexico? – Hudson By JACQUELINE HLAVENKA (staff writer for Greater Media Newspapers) The NY / NJ Baykeeper … Continue reading
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