Nippon and Port Townsend Paper Corp. both Fined for Permit Violations
Both mills have been fined, $4,000 each, by the state Department of Ecology. The fines were for permit violations during the fall of 2010.
It was the first fine in eight years for the Nippon Paper Industries USA Co. mill in Port Angeles.
It was the first fine in eight years for the Nippon Paper Industries USA Co. mill in Port Angeles.
Labels: Department of Ecology fines, Nippon Paper Industries USA Co., Port Townsend Paper Corp.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:30 PM
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Ecology uses money from penalties for environmental restoration and enhancement projects, research and development, permitting and regulatory programs, and education and assistance, the agency said.
They should use it for neutering and spaying to keep the populations down. Christians won't agree with me.
For once I agreee with BBC! Yikes!
This may have been the first fine Nippon has received in eight years, but not the first time it has violated environmental laws and permits. Ecology and the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency are way too lax when it comes to monitoring compliance.
The game for polluting industries is to get in bed with the regulators, negotiate the most lenient permit conditions that money and political influence can buy, and then go on about polluting as usual. If caught, the fine is just a trivial nuisance factored into the cost of doing business. Public health and environmental protection be damned! Cushioning the corporate coffers --- that's the American way, right?
"When you get married and have a kid, you can't do all those things you wanted to do as a young existentialist of seventeen or eighteen... like kill yourself."
So now we have to put up with all the nonsense around us. But I don't suppose there can be any such thing as a paper mill that isn't going to pollute some, the technology keeps getting better though, but you often have to force it on the businesses.
Personally, I like paper, soft strong paper for wiping my butt.
Rest in Peace, Jack Layton. You're hard fought battles have benefited many. We will fight on.
guess some government agency needed to balance the books -- wish I could just fine people to make some $$
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