|
Post by anonofthenorth on Mar 28, 2008 22:28:52 GMT -5
Here's my theory.
The Phase 2 is basically clean, a few spots of diesel nothing too much different from the courner BP station, bu there are a few unknowns. Any environnmental inspection company is going to cover themselves with something like "base on where we could test, everything is fine, but we cannot tell what the condition is under the generators". So to make sure ALL is totally fine, they are taking everything off, start the basic clean up, and test again. As of last Sunday 4 of the 12 generators had been removed. As of today all 12 exhaust stacks are down so we will be going for a bike ride to get status update tomorrow.
MWGEN wouldn't be paying to clear the land at this pace if there were any cold feet.
And this concept of multi-months/years of remidiation are only specualaton based on sites that needed real remediation, like long term leaking underground tanks, or turn of the century industrial sites with serious soil problems. If that was the case, MWGEN would have already known it was a problem and would never have even returned phone calls on requests to buy land. Environmental law is only enforced at real estate transaction or when you can prove it is a threat to others (like getting into water table). They would have left the site sitting like it was until forced to do something if it was a huge problem where remidiation would cost more than profit of sale.
|
|
|
Post by title1parent on Mar 28, 2008 22:34:18 GMT -5
Here's my theory. The Phase 2 is basically clean, a few spots of diesel nothing too much different from the courner BP station, bu there are a few unknowns. Any environnmental inspection company is going to cover themselves with something like "base on where we could test, everything is fine, but we cannot tell what the condition is under the generators". So to make sure ALL is totally fine, they are taking everything off, start the basic clean up, and test again. As of last Sunday 4 of the 12 generators had been removed. As of today all 12 exhaust stacks are down so we will be going for a bike ride to get status update tomorrow. MWGEN wouldn't be paying to clear the land at this pace if there were any cold feet. And this concept of multi-months/years of remidiation are only specualaton based on sites that needed real remediation, like long term leaking underground tanks, or turn of the century industrial sites with serious soil problems. If that was the case, MWGEN would have already known it was a problem and would never have even returned phone calls on requests to buy land. Environmental law is only enforced at real estate transaction or when you can prove it is a threat to others (like getting into water table). They would have left the site sitting like it was until forced to do something if it was a huge problem where remidiation would cost more than profit of sale. Thanks for that information, Anon. I believe your comments to be fairly accurate.
|
|
|
Post by rural on Mar 28, 2008 22:38:30 GMT -5
I saw the cranes there today. They must have been taking down the stacks earlier. Darn, I'm bummed I missed it. I love that stuff.
|
|
|
Post by wvhsparent on Mar 28, 2008 22:52:07 GMT -5
Maybe that was what the holdup was...a delay in removing the last generators.
|
|