Taylor on waste services
The outside activists and a few residents of Kettleman City will always claim environmental racism. They have a victim, poor me, mentalility, that ignores the fact that they have never suffered from the fact that Waste Management has a landfill near their town except perhaps from added traffic. In all these years there have been no documented deterioration of their water or air quality due to the Waste Management facility. Waste Management built and maintains their children's sport's fields, donates to their Family Resource Center, and supports their school. The County has bent over backwards to provide a Community Center, a Family Resource Center, and provide them the money to take care of their water needs. The majority of Kettleman City residents appreciate this support. A few permanently disgruntled, you can't do enough for me, residents and professional activists are the ones you hear about. I once told them " you are not the victims of racial discrimination, you are the victims of geographical discrimination. The place where Waste Management exists is the perfect place to discard of hazardous waste and trash." There is no water flowing beneath Waste Management to become contaminated, there is very little rain to cause run-off, the prevailing wind is to the South where there is nobody. So until society finds a way to not create trash and hazardous waste, it should be disposed of in the safest place possible. If you knew half of the inspections and paperwork requirements, including EIR after EIR, this business goes through, you would not question whether to support their expansion and bioreactor, you would just do it.