Lower Ninth Ward super toxic dump, save rich oil companies ten of billions
New Orleans reduced to the largest Third World toxic waste Dump in the world:
By Isiah R. Scott, Jr.
The House approve 4.2 billion in hurricane relief that state officials say is crucial to their efforts to rebuild the New Orleans housing supply. The funing is in the form of community development block grants, which the state can use to buy out properties that cannot be safely rebuilt. Home owners can receive up to 150,000 thousand dollar per home.
Federal and state government of Louisana was been quietly buying properties in highly contamination New Orleans ghettos in order to create a toxic waste site to avoid having the oil companies pay billion of dollars to clean-up the ghetto .
Creation of a large toxic waste dump in the lower Ninth Ward would destroy the industrial core of the
New Orleans region while killing the foreign manufacturing investments in New Orleans recovery.
According to Mr. Canizaro, a prominent real estate developer in New Orleans, “ It doesn’t take a genius to figure if you’re only going to have 40 or 50 percent of your original population, then there’s going to be shrinking in the amount of land that’s going to be needed.” Some experts have said that the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and other low-lying neighborhood should be returned to marshland.
What not being said is these same neighborhoods are worth 500 billion dollars in hidden contamination clean up costs to the oil and chemical companies. The lower Ninth Ward at 60 percent Black home ownership has the highest African American ownership rate in the state of Louisiana. Black citizens in the lower Ninth Ward are legally entitled to billions of dollars for personal and property damages from the oil companies.
Why do the oil companies have pay so much money? Because most of the oil and chemical companies spills were located in the low lying sections of the Black communities like the lower Ninth Ward. The US Department of Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) warns New Orleans residents to avoid contact with arsenic sediments , but refuses to say that its not safe to move back to the ghetto.
According to Michael M. Liffmann, the associate executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant College at Louisiana State University, most experts agreed that the rough one-quarter to one-third of the city located dangerously below sea level should not be rebuilt. It would cost the oil companies billions of dollars in cost up cost to return the contaminate communities to a live able conidation.
The whole top layer of contaminated soil must phyically be removed and replaced.A super toxic waste dump would have to be created to storge the billion of tons of contaminated soil.
One third of New Orleans is almost 1,400 square miles or 14 times the size of the borough of Queens, New York.
The depopulating and transforming of the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and other contaminated areas of New Orleans and turning them into a toxic dump would create the largest toxic wash site in the world. Such a toxic wash site would save the oil and chemical companies over 300 billion dollars of long-term clean up costs to the cities of the New Orleans region. Just the cost of contaminated public infrastructure, i.e. new public schools, hospitals, water systems, drainage and roads would amount to over 100 billion dollars.
Without a multi billion dollar the region's population and industries remain at risk from toxic sediment for hundreds of years. Turning the contaminated areas of the city into the world largest toxic wash dump, would shift the financial responsible for the 200 billion dollar clean up from the rich oil companies to the US taxpayers.
The worst danger from the sediment is in New Orleans’ poorest neighborhoods. According to the Brookings Institution, 38 of the city’s 49 poorest districts were flooded. And 80 perecent of the neighborhoods under water had non-white majorities.
People, mostly Black Americans, were force to live, walk and drink oil and chemically contaminated floor water are entitled to billion of dollars of personal and property compensation from the oil and chemicals operating in their community that leaking toxic chemicals into the water.
New Orleans remains abashed in contamination and toxic debris.The tens of thousands of New Orleans cizten returing to the city will also be exposed to the contamination and be legally entitled to compensation.
Clean, present and growing threat to children
Children are most at risk from exposure to the sediment, “because they are both closer to the ground and more susceptible to toxic exposure because of their developing status.” A recent Columbia University/Mailman School of Public Health Study found that children exposed to arsentic-tained water from wells in Bangladesh faced reduced intellectual function.
New Orleans has lost it skilled workforce and has been reduced to little more than a Third World City with no industrial base. Mission critical industrial infrastructure remains contaminated and useless.
The oil companies have refused to pay hundred of billions of dollars of compensation to the people of the New Orleans industrial region in pain and suffering, long-term health cost, property loss and public infrastructure recovery. The oil companies compensation money would hepl restart the New Orleans industrial economy. The critical IT sector flooded out Katrina and toxic wash is not being compensated by the oil companies at a level to allow recovery.
As the political struggle to fund the massive clean up and rebuilding of the New Orleans industrial economy confronts the critical basic infrastructure reconstruction stage; the Bush Administration is trying to abandon the larger political task of finding massive moneys for regional long-term clean up and infrastructure reconstruction projects to jump start the economy.
The Bush adminstration is abandoning industrial funding in order to create the pre-condition to turn the Ninth Ward and other highly contaminated Black communities into federal controlled toxic wate dumps to save forcing the oil companies to clean up the ghettos.
Congress and Wall Street are refusing to pick up any more of the tab for the hundreds of billions of dollars owned by the oil companies.
The Oval Office is looking for smaller political success stories like fixing the 17th Street levee and rebuilding “New Urbanism” French Styled white bedroom communities in Mississippi hade replaced the need for urban public housing and a multi billion regional levee system to protect all the people and cities in the Gulf region of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. This political ruse may backfire if the region is hit this hurricane season with a major storm.
This type of targeted white development is the Republican Party high risk marketing strategy to politically sell their abandonment of “ the industrial Black sections” of New Orleans for the fall campaign season. The Republican Party appear to be betting that the American public is mentally trying to turn the page on Katrina and is ready to move on to the next crisis. By turning off the news coverage on New Orleans the the Ninth Ward toxic dump proposal will be lost in other emerging summer national political events.
The immediate national media focus for the Gulf region is providing crisis housing, not industrial jobs for the thousands of people still force to live in tent cities and motels around the region as the new hurricane season approached. The Republicans are now turning their political attention to the slumlords of New Orleans for help as a key part of a long-term campaign to build a power base in New Orleans.
Of the dozens of proposed legislation dealing with increased congressional funding for Katrina, fewer than half have passed.
With the Oval Office increasingly positioning itself for the run up to the fall elections, with tax cuts, the war, deficit, securing Katrina recovery money from Congress is increasingly more difficult as the Republican Party is trying to step away from the increasing costs of infrastructure repair by capping off federal funding at 70 billion dollars.
The political corruption in Louisiana and Washington has replaced the early talks of a 250 billion dollar federal New Deal for the greater New Orleans industrial region. Alabama and Mississippi recovery needs are being pushed by the New York Times and other national media from out of the dark shadows of New Orleans fighting for their share of the disappearing Katrina funding.
Gov.Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced a 1.75 billion dollar plan to encourage landlords to repair or build apartments and houses for rent. Over 100,000 housing units in the city were flooded. Many in the lower Ninth Ward were owned by African Americans. These phase two home owner centric federal plans leaves most Black New Orleans out of the political give away, because they own less than 12 percent of the housing unit in the region. More importantly these housing programs in selective strategic hamlets of the city are quiet buying homes and businesses in the super toxic dump area. This state acquisition of ghetto properties is setting the pre-condition for the legal creation by the oil companies of the new super waste sites.
A downsized low-wage economy is emerging to replace the 200,000 metropolitan jobs.
A new study from the RAND Corporation projects that the city population will raise to 250,000 by 2006 and 270,000 by September 2008. Many areas of the lower Ninth Ward will not be repopulated and will limit the city growth.
Over 230,000 New Orleans would not return.
Many are part of a death march to richer northern cities seeking jobs, schools and medical care.
The RAND study notes than the long-term recovery of the industrial region will be seriously constrained by the lack of human habitation and industrial recovery in the Ninth Ward and other affected areas of the city.
Not developed in the RAND study is the fact that over 600,000 mostly white, skilled workers and their families have left the region. This has seriously crippled the industrial labor supply matrix, which directly impacts on the regional recovery.
By Isiah R. Scott, Jr.
The House approve 4.2 billion in hurricane relief that state officials say is crucial to their efforts to rebuild the New Orleans housing supply. The funing is in the form of community development block grants, which the state can use to buy out properties that cannot be safely rebuilt. Home owners can receive up to 150,000 thousand dollar per home.
Federal and state government of Louisana was been quietly buying properties in highly contamination New Orleans ghettos in order to create a toxic waste site to avoid having the oil companies pay billion of dollars to clean-up the ghetto .
Creation of a large toxic waste dump in the lower Ninth Ward would destroy the industrial core of the
New Orleans region while killing the foreign manufacturing investments in New Orleans recovery.
According to Mr. Canizaro, a prominent real estate developer in New Orleans, “ It doesn’t take a genius to figure if you’re only going to have 40 or 50 percent of your original population, then there’s going to be shrinking in the amount of land that’s going to be needed.” Some experts have said that the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and other low-lying neighborhood should be returned to marshland.
What not being said is these same neighborhoods are worth 500 billion dollars in hidden contamination clean up costs to the oil and chemical companies. The lower Ninth Ward at 60 percent Black home ownership has the highest African American ownership rate in the state of Louisiana. Black citizens in the lower Ninth Ward are legally entitled to billions of dollars for personal and property damages from the oil companies.
Why do the oil companies have pay so much money? Because most of the oil and chemical companies spills were located in the low lying sections of the Black communities like the lower Ninth Ward. The US Department of Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) warns New Orleans residents to avoid contact with arsenic sediments , but refuses to say that its not safe to move back to the ghetto.
According to Michael M. Liffmann, the associate executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant College at Louisiana State University, most experts agreed that the rough one-quarter to one-third of the city located dangerously below sea level should not be rebuilt. It would cost the oil companies billions of dollars in cost up cost to return the contaminate communities to a live able conidation.
The whole top layer of contaminated soil must phyically be removed and replaced.A super toxic waste dump would have to be created to storge the billion of tons of contaminated soil.
One third of New Orleans is almost 1,400 square miles or 14 times the size of the borough of Queens, New York.
The depopulating and transforming of the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and other contaminated areas of New Orleans and turning them into a toxic dump would create the largest toxic wash site in the world. Such a toxic wash site would save the oil and chemical companies over 300 billion dollars of long-term clean up costs to the cities of the New Orleans region. Just the cost of contaminated public infrastructure, i.e. new public schools, hospitals, water systems, drainage and roads would amount to over 100 billion dollars.
Without a multi billion dollar the region's population and industries remain at risk from toxic sediment for hundreds of years. Turning the contaminated areas of the city into the world largest toxic wash dump, would shift the financial responsible for the 200 billion dollar clean up from the rich oil companies to the US taxpayers.
The worst danger from the sediment is in New Orleans’ poorest neighborhoods. According to the Brookings Institution, 38 of the city’s 49 poorest districts were flooded. And 80 perecent of the neighborhoods under water had non-white majorities.
People, mostly Black Americans, were force to live, walk and drink oil and chemically contaminated floor water are entitled to billion of dollars of personal and property compensation from the oil and chemicals operating in their community that leaking toxic chemicals into the water.
New Orleans remains abashed in contamination and toxic debris.The tens of thousands of New Orleans cizten returing to the city will also be exposed to the contamination and be legally entitled to compensation.
Clean, present and growing threat to children
Children are most at risk from exposure to the sediment, “because they are both closer to the ground and more susceptible to toxic exposure because of their developing status.” A recent Columbia University/Mailman School of Public Health Study found that children exposed to arsentic-tained water from wells in Bangladesh faced reduced intellectual function.
New Orleans has lost it skilled workforce and has been reduced to little more than a Third World City with no industrial base. Mission critical industrial infrastructure remains contaminated and useless.
The oil companies have refused to pay hundred of billions of dollars of compensation to the people of the New Orleans industrial region in pain and suffering, long-term health cost, property loss and public infrastructure recovery. The oil companies compensation money would hepl restart the New Orleans industrial economy. The critical IT sector flooded out Katrina and toxic wash is not being compensated by the oil companies at a level to allow recovery.
As the political struggle to fund the massive clean up and rebuilding of the New Orleans industrial economy confronts the critical basic infrastructure reconstruction stage; the Bush Administration is trying to abandon the larger political task of finding massive moneys for regional long-term clean up and infrastructure reconstruction projects to jump start the economy.
The Bush adminstration is abandoning industrial funding in order to create the pre-condition to turn the Ninth Ward and other highly contaminated Black communities into federal controlled toxic wate dumps to save forcing the oil companies to clean up the ghettos.
Congress and Wall Street are refusing to pick up any more of the tab for the hundreds of billions of dollars owned by the oil companies.
The Oval Office is looking for smaller political success stories like fixing the 17th Street levee and rebuilding “New Urbanism” French Styled white bedroom communities in Mississippi hade replaced the need for urban public housing and a multi billion regional levee system to protect all the people and cities in the Gulf region of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. This political ruse may backfire if the region is hit this hurricane season with a major storm.
This type of targeted white development is the Republican Party high risk marketing strategy to politically sell their abandonment of “ the industrial Black sections” of New Orleans for the fall campaign season. The Republican Party appear to be betting that the American public is mentally trying to turn the page on Katrina and is ready to move on to the next crisis. By turning off the news coverage on New Orleans the the Ninth Ward toxic dump proposal will be lost in other emerging summer national political events.
The immediate national media focus for the Gulf region is providing crisis housing, not industrial jobs for the thousands of people still force to live in tent cities and motels around the region as the new hurricane season approached. The Republicans are now turning their political attention to the slumlords of New Orleans for help as a key part of a long-term campaign to build a power base in New Orleans.
Of the dozens of proposed legislation dealing with increased congressional funding for Katrina, fewer than half have passed.
With the Oval Office increasingly positioning itself for the run up to the fall elections, with tax cuts, the war, deficit, securing Katrina recovery money from Congress is increasingly more difficult as the Republican Party is trying to step away from the increasing costs of infrastructure repair by capping off federal funding at 70 billion dollars.
The political corruption in Louisiana and Washington has replaced the early talks of a 250 billion dollar federal New Deal for the greater New Orleans industrial region. Alabama and Mississippi recovery needs are being pushed by the New York Times and other national media from out of the dark shadows of New Orleans fighting for their share of the disappearing Katrina funding.
Gov.Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced a 1.75 billion dollar plan to encourage landlords to repair or build apartments and houses for rent. Over 100,000 housing units in the city were flooded. Many in the lower Ninth Ward were owned by African Americans. These phase two home owner centric federal plans leaves most Black New Orleans out of the political give away, because they own less than 12 percent of the housing unit in the region. More importantly these housing programs in selective strategic hamlets of the city are quiet buying homes and businesses in the super toxic dump area. This state acquisition of ghetto properties is setting the pre-condition for the legal creation by the oil companies of the new super waste sites.
A downsized low-wage economy is emerging to replace the 200,000 metropolitan jobs.
A new study from the RAND Corporation projects that the city population will raise to 250,000 by 2006 and 270,000 by September 2008. Many areas of the lower Ninth Ward will not be repopulated and will limit the city growth.
Over 230,000 New Orleans would not return.
Many are part of a death march to richer northern cities seeking jobs, schools and medical care.
The RAND study notes than the long-term recovery of the industrial region will be seriously constrained by the lack of human habitation and industrial recovery in the Ninth Ward and other affected areas of the city.
Not developed in the RAND study is the fact that over 600,000 mostly white, skilled workers and their families have left the region. This has seriously crippled the industrial labor supply matrix, which directly impacts on the regional recovery.
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