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SOrising
Citizen
Username: Sorising
Post Number: 508
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 6:03 pm: | 
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I watched the July 10th BOT video again since I'd missed it before. When the trustees were giving reports on various committees, Trustee Rosen asked the town administrator when a new, less or non-polluting fuel would be tried out on town vehicles. No answer was given.
Trustee Moore-Abrams said the head of public works objected to it but no explanation was provided about why. Howard Levison, head of the committee that has recommended it and located grant money for it, said that when he asked the head of public works for an explanation, the head of public works referred the question to the town administrator who has not yet answered the question.
Children and the elderly are most vulnerable to and adversely affected by bad air quality. I've heard of studies by Columbia University's school of public health that suggest damage caused by vehicle pollution to developing children who suffer from asthma in NYC can be life long; there is some suggestion that the damage can impact genetic transference, a controversial but horrible possibility.
Every SO resident who works in Manhattan is exposed to damaging pollutants and particulate matter each day. Air quality in sealed buildings is often worse than it is outside. NY commuters who live in SO especially need the best air possible where they live.
Doesn't SO deserve clean air? Where is the town's Environmental Commission on this? What does it take to get it accomplished and why is there no real explanation for the administrator's opposition? |
peteglider
Citizen
Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 2077
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 6:15 pm: |
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Alternate fuel vehicles are far too experimental, costly (short and long term), and quite frankly, a small town like ours should not be experimenting with this.
This has nothing to do with supporting clean air or not. It is impractical and too costly.
Far more sensible -- planting more trees in parks, encouraging residents to plant trees in their yards, and cutting down on energy use in town buildings.
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SOrising
Citizen
Username: Sorising
Post Number: 509
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 9:22 pm: |
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I doubt that one diesel vehicle that could run on either regular or B20 fuel would be very expensive, PG. The town already owns it.
Trees, etc., clean up some of the mess. Much better would be to plant them AND reduce polluted output to begin with. |
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