From today's paper:
"Plans for building a $600 million FDS Coke Plant on the East Toledo-Oregon border were dealt a potentially lethal blow yesterday afternoon.
A state board ruled that former Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Joe Koncelik lacked authority in 2005 to relax a highly restrictive permit that had been issued a year earlier by his predecessor, Chris Jones.
The board voided Mr. Koncelik
Rather like second hand smoke, but what is the profit and loss? We lost a business that would have employed quite a few people, and made a profit for others. It is possible that there was some risk involved for those who live around the plant, but most risks are played out over years.
The Brush Wellman beryllium plant that was in Elmore employed quite a few people, and I know some developed cancer, but others made a good living there. I would think that as long as there is
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Mercury faq's http://www.mercuryaction.org/uploads/PSR_Hg1_quickC.pdf
http://toledoohioneighborhoodconcerns.com/blog
Im with Maggie on this one, isnt there a compromise that could have been had? This plant would have provided 1,500 contruction jobs plus about 150 full time jobs making about $45,000 a year once it was built. But hey, for those people who already have good jobs they could care less. Like Ms. Bihn Perhaps? She even went as far to say in an older issue of the Metro Press, that the owners/financiers were controlled by the russian mob.