Reader App has left this incredibly insightful comment on the post "Pardon Me For Asking, But Did You Get This Slick P...":
I am from NJ, and I am going to tell you the truth about getting on the Superfund list. (we got a lot of sites on the list in NJ)
They are right when they say it will cost local residents money. But this is a good thing, and here is how & why....
After the clean up, property values will increase and it is likely that taxes will too, because that is just how it works. And who wouldn't really want that? Who wouldn't want the value of their home to double?
The alternative is that nothing gets cleaned up, things get worse, property values fall even more, residents get totally fed up with it and sell out to get out before their homes are totally worthless and their children grow up and give birth to a generation of genetic mutants. Then developers can pick up the properties dirt cheap.
Then after they acquire the land, they finally agree that it should be a Superfund site, they get on the list, the clean up takes place and they make a killing off the increase in property values.
Residents have nothing to fear with regards to lawsuits. The only ones that will get sued are the polluters that made the mess. If you didn't cause the problem, you have nothing to fear. If you did cause the problem you will be forced to take responsibility for your careless disregard for the environment. It is only right that you should. If you made the mess you should be made to pay for the clean up, at least in part. They don't go after home owners. They go after the big companies that made the mess, the ones that have been poisoning you, your children, and your community.
Additionally, things are picking up speed with the existing Superfund sites, with money pouring in from the federal government, to put people to work and clean them up faster. This is part of the current stimulus package.
New Jersey is getting over $100 million in stimulus money to clean up 8 Superfund sites.
You guys deserve to have some of that too. You deserve to live in a clean safe community. You deserve to not lose the value of your homes. You deserve the jobs the cleanup will create.
You deserve it, not the developers that seek to steal your homes out from under you for pennies of what the properties will eventually be worth.
Thank you, App,
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2 comments:
At the end of EPA meeting last week, we heard the mayor's office say that there was no eed to rush to listing, that we should give the city two ears to see what they can do and that SF listing could come later. This sounds like a plan that fits the senerio presentedin this post--one that delivers cheeper land to the developers over the next two years.
suparfund or no suparfund, your comment delivers great insight to what we are up against here, is there anyplace i can get unforged papers, if you will, sotosay, judy carne, sockittohe, lol, onlykiddinp
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