Hillary provided Legal Aid to WTI --Placed Toxic Waste Incinerator Near Ohio Elementary School

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Hillary Clinton and LaFarge Cement

toxic waste incineration fuels cement kilns

Hillary Clinton was on the board of directors of LaFarge cement when they shifted from burning natural gas to burning toxic wastes to heat their cement kilns.

Toxic waste incineration synthesizes thousands of new chemicals that do not occur in nature. Many of them, especially those based on chlorine, are bio accumulators and disruptive to mammalian life forms. Burning hazardous wastes with petrochemicals and chlorine create new "products of incomplete combustion" that are among the most toxic substances invented during the 20th century, including dioxins and furans, which are carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic.

Hillary was also involved in legal work for the notorious WTI (Waste Technologies Industries) toxic waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, located next to an elementary school and financed by Arkansas based banker Jackson Stephens. Perhaps the Clintons could recommend that the citizens of that sad town should not inhale.

http://www.oilempire.us/cement.html

Published in Detroit Metro Times, 1993.
Behind enemy lines with the granola commandos
By Monte Paulsen
Staff Writer

[note: this article is no longer available from the Detroit Metro Times website and the personal website of the author is not on line anymore. Fair Use only.]

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Hillary Clinton is a former member of Lafarge's board of directors --- a work-free job for which she received about $31,000 a year

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Bitter cold air rushed in as the Greenpeace commandos scrambled out, leapt the fence and charged toward the giant, ever-rumbling ovens that release more than a half-million pounds of potentially toxic waste every year.

Alpena is a city that greets its visitors with a giant yellow smiley face painted on a water tower at the edge of town. How this friendly city became host to the largest hazardous waste incinerator in Michigan is a sad story of good intentions betrayed by congressional confusion and corporate self-interest.

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The Bevill amendment gave cement kilns a significant competitive advantage over other waste-to-energy plants seeking to burn hazardous materials. For while commercial waste incinerators --- such as the hotly protested Waste Technologies Inc. plant in East Liverpool, Ohio --- were required to pay upwards of $1,000 a ton to dispose of their ash in sealed landfills, cement kilns could dump their waste on site for free.

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Published in Detroit Metro Times, 1993.
Behind enemy lines with the granola commandos
By Monte Paulsen
Staff Writer

Hillary Clinton worked for WTI's funder Jackson Stephens and was on the Board of Directors of LaFarge toxic waste incinerator


Hillary Clinton helped incorporate WTI while at the Rose Law Firm and served on the board of LaFarge Cement, which operates a cement kiln in Alpena, Michigan on Lake Huron that switched from natural gas to burning hazardous wastes (used motor oil, solvents) in the mid-1980s.

Clinton's Region 3 [mid-atlantic] EPA Administrator - Peter Kostmayer, a democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania who lost his seat in 1992 (he'd introduced legislation to ban new incinerators) - was fired for opposing the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed $1.5 billion 118 mile "Corridor H" superhighway through the mountains of West Virginia and the water discharge permit for the Parsons & Whittemore paper pulp mill in Apple Grove, WV, on the Ohio River (the mill would be the largest in the country, and would dump dioxin into the river).

West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton and Senators Byrd and Rockefeller complained to Clinton (the paper mill contributed to West Virginia politicians and to the Democratic National Committee), who complained to EPA Administrator Carol Browner, who fired Kostmayer.

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http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/wti/wti.html

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