So sad. No, check that: It's pathetic.
In a roundabout way, I was reminded of the AGENDA 21 people when I saw the photo below in the PDN today. It shows what is the real agenda for too many people who move to remote, rural places that have lax rules, regulations and oversight. This agenda can be summed up thusly: Let's move out to the country and pile up as much crap as we can on our previously unspoiled property. In this case, AGENDA 21 was literally buried by AGENDA 20 TONS OF GARBAGE.
Do you suppose there was a provision for the Chain Gang in the will?
And how can the U.N. put in their "Secret Invasion Paths" with so many
abandoned RVs in the way?
And speaking of fantasies and tons of garbage...Bob Larsen, former Board President and current CEO of the Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC), said Tuesday he will make a series of "upbeat announcements" on the CRTC beginning Friday.Does this pattern of announcing upcoming announcements seem familiar to anyone else? Has it ever worked out? Are you planning on flying anywhere from Port Angeles any time soon?
Here's a tip, Clallam Count residents: Forget about AGENDA 21. Instead, why not worry about the clearly visible agenda that enriches a small handful of people there, while leaving everyone else struggling.
***UPDATE!***
The first "upbeat announcement" has been announced! The CRTC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Toray Composites of Tacoma. In other words, they've agreed to talk to each other about "enabling...market developments for recycled products."
And why wouldn't Toray sign such an agreement? After all, talk is cheap. It's also an easy way for them to get rid of their scrap, thereby avoiding a cost for storage and/or disposal. But until there is an actual, verifiable, funded market available, all of Tacoma's scrap will just be so much more crap sitting in a truck in Port Angeles. Idling 24/7. And waiting, waiting...
"Upbeat" announcements? Try "beat up" announcements, because we've heard this story before, Mr. Larsen. The only thing that's getting recycled through the CRTC is our tax money and another good old boy scam. Same old same old, heard it before. Keep your mouth shut until you have actual results to show.
ReplyDeleteI've heard so many old time Clallam County residents go on about Agenda 21. And, not all of them are Birchers, either. It probably helps that Clallam County has long been an enclave for devotees of the John Birch Society.
ReplyDeleteParanoid and pathetic, they still are a significant part of the area.
When they have to eventually haul away the twenty tons (or more!)of composite garbage, it'll be easy, since it all has to be stored in refrigerated semis.
ReplyDeleteThat will need to run 24 hours a day.
Seven days a week.
Just another industrial gift to our local air quality.
Don't forget the noise pollution from those semis on eterna-idle...
DeleteThat photo of Bob Larsen (in the PDN) freaks me out. He looks like a demented elf or something. Not someone I'd trust, well, with much of anything. He was just put in charge on the 7th, and we're to believe that he already has "upbeat announcements" to make? That alone seems suspect. Hell, EVERYTHING here seems suspect. Get in line, Bob.
ReplyDeleteAfter seeing this posting here, I went to the PDN's website to read the full composites article. Used to be, such an article would generate a lot of comments along the lines of "Oh boy, jobs!" or things like that.
ReplyDeleteBut for this article, there's nothing, no comments at all. I'd like to think that maybe, just maybe, after hearing so many similar promises in the past, people who live here have become a little more skeptical of such grand seeming claims.
As of a few minutes ago there are still no comments.
DeleteThe new article today, with the UPBEAT ANNOUNCEMENT, also has zero comments. Maybe it's getting harder to get the suckers all excited?
DeleteIf you don't pay at the paywall, you cannot comment. Simple, less people are paying their dumb .99cent special.
DeleteIf that is true, that means people who are paying, only comment on non controversial stories?
DeleteI don't think this is true, as I know a number of people who usually comment on-line, and are pissed off because the PDN shuts off their ability to comment on city government related stories.
Agenda 21. Now THAT is funny. Reminds me of my late teens and very early 20s when some of the best times I had in this town was getting high with my late great best girlfriend Kim Marie on a Friday night and trying to find creative ways to deface and destroy the huge "Get US OUT OF THE UNITED NATIONS" sign sponsored by the John Birch Society that was prominently displayed down at the bottom of the Morse Creek S curve. Over the years we spray painted it (crossed out the UN and painted PORT ANGELES). We set it on fire,sawed at the legs of it in a frustrating attempt to turn it upside down. We set it on fire and one WONDERFUL idea of the Late great IAN Rolley who was 16 at the time we paste some stolen naked butts from the Coppertone Girl billboards on it. Ahh good times! I thought that the John Birch Society was dead and gone in these parts but now I wonder if old members of both the JBS and the Chamber of Commerce...... Oh good grief I have a great idea for a book "AGENDA 22"
ReplyDeleteI remember that sign! I always enjoyed seeing it monkey-wrenched and the resulting freak-out from the Birchers!
DeleteUm, corporate boards of directors don't have "Presidents". The leader of a Board is called a "Chairman" or "Chairwoman".
ReplyDeleteA corporate "President" is a legal office (and the person an "officer") of the corporation. If they can't figure that out, how will they run a company?
CRTC is a nonprofit corporation, UBI 603539921. As a nonprofit, none of the "profits" may go to the owners/members. So where will these huge "profits" be going? Hmmm?
You raise interesting questions. Now cut that out!
DeleteUh oh Bubba, we got us a smart one here.
DeleteAs Anon 5:07 points out, the Composites Recycling project is a non-profit. How many grants do you think they will apply for? How many government agencies will be providing money for this venture?
DeleteAnother in a long line of taxpayer funded projects in Port Angeles. This has such a familiar ring to it.
I'd like to know what percentage of city revenue is actually from taxes & fees, and how much is govt grants that you can't count on. It seems the city gets all kinds of grant money, then funnels them to private companies, then never repaid or at least accounted for?
DeleteComposites will be getting this just watch.
And even more toxic waste will just sit here.
JUST WHO THE HELL is getting (away with) the money?
CK - didn't know how else to contact you so move this to wherever you think it is relevant. Apparently there's a full page ad coming out courtesy of the EDC tomorrow (Friday the 22nd) in the PDN listing their members and supporters. So we can all see who these organizations and businesses are. How much do you think that full page ad cost and what better use could that money have been used for? I bet the ad potentially cost one small businesses' entire annual contribution the PDN. For what?
ReplyDeletePlease recall this is YOUR tax money going to pay for these full page ads. Last year your county commission under McEntire gave the EDC $300K. This year under Ozias the county commission gave EDC $300K. That's $600,000 over two years and no jobs created. What a racket. Your tax money is now paying for the promotion of for profit business that, so far as I can tell, give nothing back to the community but slave wages.
DeleteABOLISH THE EDC NOW!
DeleteThere's a plethora of local nut sites, many focusing on Agenda 21, and many of them run by the Fordes including the hit site that shot down the Sequim school bond. For your enjoyment:
ReplyDeletehttp://nwri.org/
http://www.behindmyback.org
http://clallamcapr.org/
http://www.olympicresourcepc.org/
http://truthintaxation323.org/
Thanks for the update, CK. Yes, like the toxic scrap being shipped here from Tacoma, we can sit and wait to see what our ill-advised and self focused so-called leaders will dream up next. As we see, this is yet another scam one of them dreamed up to bring in as much government grant money to the area, as possible. That money, of course, and like so many similar scams before it, will go primarily to fund their salaries.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons any real industrial or manufacturing company won't move here is how remote Port Angeles is. It just adds to the costs of doing business, which get added to the costs of any product created, and thus make the company less competitive than others in the same field, offering the same products.
So, with that as background, why is toxic waste processing more viable in Port Angeles, than any place closer to where the waste is actually being produced?
Unless, everyone already knows it isn't a real business, to start with.
The scrap is a scam. A (temporarily!) well-funded scam.
DeleteSome scum will be skimming off of the (temporary!) funding of the scam.
And once the scrap is redefined as crap, the same scum will skim off of the (upcoming!) finds for the clean-up.
Scum, scam, skim, scrap, crap, boondoggle BS. Welcome to Port Angeles!