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Nope. Hell Tom, solid waste service industry alone is a $60 billion industry. $100 billion if you include hazardous waste. Then you have Waste Water Treatment facilities, both public and private, air pollution control systems, then you have the environmental equipment and manufacturing sector that builds these systems, then consumer products, consulting, engineering, environmental constructions, recycling, research and development, etc, etc,. So yea...$330 billion is a conservative estimate.
LOL Well they are the cause of a lot of the money spent on environmental protection each year. If military expediency is to just dump it in a hole by golly that’s what they do! LOL
Yikes, not what I want to hear, I bet they have some really bad stuff.
Yea Tom they actually are. Prior to the major environmental acts of 60’s and to a greater extent the 70’s and 80’s environmental industry and technology was little more then dumping it in a hole into the ground or the nearest body of water, river or streams or up a smoke stack. With the exponential growth of our industrial output and our population growth the problem dwarfed the what it had been prior to the war. So most of these industries and tecnologies are less than 40 years old. Which is a moot point. The coal industry is far older. The only one turning it’s back on coal in the US is the free market. So if that market develops methods and technologies to exploit new markets with out the current massive environmental degradation and pollution involved than so be it.
Well you need people like me to work on managing benzene and toluene to make that possible as those are pretty darned useful chemicals. It’s not a case of one or the other. It’s a matter of understanding how they impact public health and the environment and managing them intelligently, responsibly, safely with as little waste as possible. I call that a win:win.
The NYPD used a $3 million counterterrorism plane to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio back and forth from his Canada vacation to the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
“NYPD is transporting him in their plane,” de Blasio spokesman Eric Phillips told The Post.
“Their plane” is a Cessna 208 Caravan that cost roughly $3 million and was picked up by the department in 2017.
The high-tech aircraft is outfitted with special sensors to detect radioactive material used to make “dirty bombs.”
The aircraft is kept at MacArthur Airport on Long Island. Data from flight-tracker website FlightAware shows a Cessna Caravan with a tail number previously identified as belonging to an NYPD “spy” craft flying from MacArthur at 6:36 a.m. Thursday and landing at Montreal-Trudeau Airport by 8:18 a.m.
The plane departed Montreal less than an hour later and landed at Westchester County Airport near White Plains at 10:58 a.m.
By noon, the mayor was speaking at a street co-naming for Familia. The plane later departed Westchester for Montreal at 1:48 p.m., arriving at 3:34 p.m., records show.
The trip to Canada was a departure from the plane’s normal pattern of two- to three-hour flights starting and ending at MacArthur, data shows.
Phillips said that Thursday was the first time the mayor had been on the plane.
Neither the NYPD nor the Mayor’s Office would say who decided to use the plane, how much the trip cost taxpayers or why the mayor didn’t take a commercial flight — which is about $300 round-trip.
The cost of using the Cessna would be in the thousands.
“The NYPD, as a longstanding matter of policy, does not comment on specific details regarding elected officials,” a spokesman said.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/05/de-blasio-used-a-3m-counterterrorism-plane-to-zip-home-from-vacation/
Yet you thought "hope and change" were real when Obama bombastically bloviated this blatant blather, didn't you, DEMOCRAT?
Loser.