Let's see who we've got there...Well, for starters, we've got Nathan West, who years ago sold his soul to the Devil for job security. Nathan used to "know better," but by now only seems to know how to hold on to his job. Then there's elderly, ill and always out of it Pat Downie, the doddering dodo of Port Angeles politics. Next to Pat there's clueless Connie Beauvais, the far-right dream girl of 1955. When Edna's not available, call Connie! Then you've got morally bankrupt Steve Tharinger. I guess they let Steve hold the scissors, because he's so practiced at putting knives in people's backs. Oh, and let's not forget Pixie Bob Larsen, "CEO" of the "Composites Recycling Technology Center." With his Kim Jong-Il style bouffant, Bob cuts a dashing figure as he helps the Usual Suspects shuffle the latest bullshit around.
Now, I ask about success, because, really, that's the product that these people and the CRTC are peddling. They're promising to take composite waste scraps and spin them into JOBS! MARKETABLE PRODUCTS! And did we mention JOBS!
But...At the risk of sounding skeptical, let me ask a few more questions. As far as creating jobs, what sort of track record do the people you see here have? Even at a one-step remove, what sort of job have they done at creating a community and/or economy and/or educational environment that would be conducive to job growth? For those from local governing bodies, how have they done on civic and environmental and regulatory oversight?
Let's remember that, for all intents and purposes, these people, and their cohorts, are the ones who let the Garbage Bluff be born. Who let the Rayonier site sit, toxic and untouched. Who've allowed combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to go on for decades. Who let Nippon put a power plant on the shoreline - and let them start construction on it without permits. These are members of the governing crowd that gave away 100+ acres of industrial zoned land to land rapist Dan Morrison in a sleazy deal. Their fingerprints are all over putting the Turd Tank on the shoreline as well, as well as many other bad, destructive ideas.
In other words, these are the people who have allowed industry and individuals to trash the environment, literally leave piles of garbage and toxic waste and polluted soil all over Clallam County, and have turned a blind eye to ever cleaning up any of the messes they've helped facilitate.
With all that in mind, I have my doubts about the wisdom of their scheme to bring yet one more type of waste product to Clallam County, pile it up somewhere, and wait for it to turn into cold, hard cash. More than likely, it will, in the long run, end up sitting in a pile somewhere on the shoreline, just one more toxic hotspot in Port Angeles.
In short, my faith in the ability of any of these people to "get things right" is weak, very weak.
Our so-called leaders remind me of all these old jokes.
ReplyDelete"Cherie Kidd is so stupid, if she tried to boil water she'd burn it."
"How can you tell when Pat Downie is saying something idiotic? When his lips are moving."
These people are not be believed, and not to be trusted. They miss the target 100% of the time. It's like one last joke: "(Fill in the blank) tried to put their foot down - and missed." Pathetic!
The scam will cost taxpayers money.
ReplyDeleteThe eventual cleanup will cost taxpayers money.
In between those two things, a handful of people will line their pockets - with taxpayers money.
The Port Angeles story, told over and over again...
As has been said before, if this is such a whiz-bang great idea, why is NOBODY else in North America doing it?
ReplyDeleteOh, I know. Because everybody else is so stupid. We cornered the market on all the REALLY smart people, here in Port Angeles. We have ALL KINDS of examples that prove how smart the leadership in Port Angeles is.
Looking at that picture, I see one thing they all have in common: they're all Grant Whores.
Maybe you can get the Grant Whores (great name) to fight the Grant Munros to the death? It would be a gift to the world.
DeleteWhere do we start with this scam?
ReplyDeleteA nonprofit private corp. naming THE PORT (the government) as its beneficiary? = an illegal abuse of nonprofit status. Where's the legitimate non-profit purposes?
Claiming that they can turn MIC composite waste into sellable products? I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but all I see are little carbon fiber placeholders, cut from bigger scrap. And if the brains at Boeing couldn't find anything to do with this stuff, why does anyone think Larson and his RICO gang can out-think the MIC?
So the deal was that Boeing, Toray, et al. whine to Inslee about the cost of disposal, and he directs his minions to come up with a backroom deal to give these companies another socialism benefit. Which Tharinger jumps all over on to take credit.
So someone pays to take it off their hands (in part with state money), ships it here, and just piles it up under the rubric of "jobs". What a-holes.
Try cutting this crap without full hazmat gear. Try absorbing the secret MIC nanoparticles and see how your body reacts. And if the wind blows a handful of molecules of this stuff onto your property, your garden is toast.
These people are sick in the head. Why is it that all the local buffoons can do is be the patsy for this state's garbage deals, and take whatever little grant carrot is dangled in front of them? This entire County is nothing but a sellout. Never mind attracting real 21st century business models (digital goods perhaps???).
These huge companies don't give one *F* about us. Their solution to pollution is dilution. In all forms, in all substances. This is just one more piece of shit deal proffered by backwater morons.
Think of what this peninsula holds. Think of what could happen if real buisiness operations were marketed to, at least the ones not dependent on a specific urban location (just being realistic).
The local polits just can't for the life of themselves come up with any fresh ideas. Go ask our kids what the future holds. Look around at what the entrepreneurs are doing. It ain't rocket science, but these losers have had their chance at office, and they have all screwed us over by keeping economic activity out. Meaning something more than pot stores.
The stupidity just never ends with these people.
Ah yes. Another savior in the local economy. I have not done enough homework but. Where will all the recycling waste (waste from waste) go to? How toxic will it be and the cost of disposing it? And again, where? Not trying to be Debbie Downer here but the devil is in the details and there are not many. What type of these 200 jobs will there be and how much is the pay scale? It's just we have been buffaloed too many times with these blown up ribbon cutting ceremonies that end up nowhere. Why not put plastic crabs and clams and oysters on the fake beach? Make them like fortune cookies with a gift card to Swain's in some of them? Made out of carbon fiber.
ReplyDelete"Rogue's Gallery"
ReplyDeleteWhere's Colleen? Where's Steve Burke? Where's those county commissioners that spent a cool million on this? Where's Senator what's her name? WTF
ReplyDeleteMore to the point, where's Cherie??? Perhaps she was afraid someone was going to go all potty mouth with excrement, er, excitement?
DeleteWhere is Bill Greenwood, the EDC guy? Still hiding?
DeleteSenator Cant[do anything]well, why did you run from PA after a photo op the other day? Not having the county BOC represented is also telling. Stay tuned. This is going to get ugly.
DeleteI was really surprised that Cherie wasn't in that photo seeing as she's foisted herself upon other ribbon cutting photo ops that had NOTHING to do with the City of PA. Maybe she's fearful of showing her face outside her home or the council chambers now? I won't suggest she's been humbled because clearly that's not possible.
DeleteIf I'm remembering right (and that hardly ever happens) aside from saving some lucky company large toxic waste disposal fees the carbon material has to be kept refrigerated ? I'm certain I read that for production purposes of any kind it must be kept at a certain temperature or it quickly turns from scrap carbon fiber to expensive toxic waste. So either way we will somehow get screwed paying some idiot companies enormous utility bills PENPLY PENPLY PENPLY!!! Or we will have to pay our toxic waste disposal fees.
ReplyDeleteHey Bif, you are remembering correctly. And if I'm remembering correctly, the "plan" is to keep the crap, er, scraps, in refrigerated semis. Which means - you betcha! - diesel exhaust 24/7. Polluting the air to keep the solid pollution comfortable - a GREAT plan. I'm sure no one will object to it at all.
DeleteBut, if any naysayers do gripe, I'm sure they'll be shut down and shut up with one magic word: JOBS!
Not only is Nathan West looking away he's nervously grinning. It's as if he knows how this will end. Badly.
ReplyDeleteAnybody with half a brain knows this is going to end badly. Just look at the track record of the areas' leadership. They screw up even the most basic things that any other community does without a hitch.
DeleteI mean, they can't even do "democracy" and "freedom of speech" right!
But, they are all getting paid for yet another questionable project. One more in a long list of questionable projects.
Where was big Jim McEntire when the photo was taken. He is the one who carved out one million dollars from taxpayers to prop up this myth. Oh, he's out planning a bypass route for one oh one to go around town.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh Luke is a source and southerner.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't Nathan have a boss? Why not jump on the boss?
Because Nathan's boss is the City Council, and we all know the Council is run by City Staff, so round and round we go.
DeleteNathan's boss is your buddy Dan. The council hires Dan. Dan hires everyone else.
DeleteAnd Staff tell City Council what to do, how and when. So, round and round it goes.
DeleteNO. Nathan's boss is the City Manager. The council is just the legislative arm of the city government. We operate under a manager/council government. The manager is the CEO of the city. The council is a "weak mayor" in that the mayor has no additional powers...just to approve or veto what the city manager/staff recommend or want.
DeleteYou all need to take a lesson in civic.
Anon 10:45 In reading the thread, I don't see where the other people are saying anything different than you are. City Staff telling the city council is just a different way saying the same thing! Where is the need for this civics lesson?
DeleteRead much?
Off topic but of note:
ReplyDeleteHit and run report leaves more questions than answers
Port Angeles Police Department released their report on the hit and run incident that occurred last June.
Within 48 hours of the incident the police had their man, had their car and had most of the information in the released report. Why did it take so long to release the report?
Within the report is an unexplained 200 foot trail of blood leading to the victim, Robert Edward Simmons. It was stated the trail of blood was NOT caused by the hit and run.
Does this mean that Simmons was already injured and possibly dying in the street when Smithson's car struck him? If so, who/what caused the injury before the hit and run?
Hey everybody, you are missing the whole point here. This entire project (boondoggle) was dreamed up by the Port (Colleen & Hallett) to accomplish the following:
ReplyDelete1. Get their building completed with someone else's money, check
2. Get a tenant for the building, i.e. Peninsula College, check
3. Put others in the line-of-fire, check, however jury is still out
Remember Bill Greenwood? He tried to educate the lemmings but no one would listen.
So, we'll call the CRTC project a great success, right?
Deletefor the Port, YES!
DeleteAnyone know anything about Richard Denenny of Lee & Hayes in Spokane? He's the attorney/incorporator that formed & filed CRTC.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the Port have to go all the way to Spokane?
How does THAT create jobs here?
Someone mentioned Greenwood. How in the hell does that man still have a job in this community? I've been to a number of public meetings where Greenwood was nowhere to be found - INCLUDING A FUNDING REQUEST TO THE CITY!!! Now in all fairness, these meetings have been later in the day, so I'm sure Bill's afternoon cup of warm milk and cozy adult diaper were far more alluring than a boring old meeting.
ReplyDeleteThis man is a complete shyster (a la Donald Trump), and taking more than $80,000 a year of our tax money (a la Opportunity Fund)...and doesn't have the balls or the decency to show up for meetings.
LOL, you "good" folks have no motivation to do anything to stop us! So we're just gonna keep stealing your tax money. Just because you let us. It really is that simple.
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