LinkBlog: oberlin

Absent credible amelioration, temporary RCRA mollification is RCRA circumvention: the functional equivalent of rearranging the wicker deck chairs on a tainted, listing Titanic.

The radically elevated benzene levels -- "at only .0002 ppm below the regulatory limit" 1 -- registered by the sub rosa SCA monitoring well closest to Plum Creek, adjacent to the Oberlin Public Library, in the literal shadow of Oberlin College’s Firelands Dormitory, pose an unacceptable, endemic risk to public health.

The proverbial embodiment of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s "shell game without a pea," Sustainable Community Associates’ (SCA) indolent principals have flouted a cornucopia of environmental statutes redolent of New England’s deep-sixed Dickey-Lincoln dam

Others, however, aren't so certain. "God bless them, I hope this works," Councilwoman Soucy says. "But I would not bet my life on it. Especially considering their level of personal maturity."

Corruption in Sustainable Community Associates Oberlin Review (April 21, 2006): ...SCA’s profligate, pedigreed opportunists treat Oberlin’s municipal reserves like Paris Hilton’s trust fund.

Corruption in Sustainable Community Associates Oberlin Review (April 21, 2006): ...SCA’s failure to properly vet potential vendors is a classic example of the inevitable pitfalls of delegating substantial operational control of a major development project to irresponsible, inept neophytes. This is the Rubicon where the insufficient rubber check meets the incandescent yellow brick road. Last time I inquired, despite legions of tree-huggers, Oberlin wasn’t blessed with a biodegradable bond rating. SCA’s profligate, pedigreed opportunists treat Oberlin’s municipal reserves like Paris Hilton’s trust fund.