That Grey Area Is Turning Black

right or wrong?

I know that's not the way to spell it in this case but it works with my W.  Is it right or wrong to put Industry over people?  Somewhere along the line, I don't know how far back but some time after the Roman Empire fell and the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock we came up with a code of right or wrong.  Some probably came right out of religious doctrine, others from a Council meeting of some kind we learn as we go about what is and what is not gonna fly in a community based society. In order to co-exist we have law, guidelines, and acceptable.  we had right and we had wrong...and then there is that grey area. 

Some laws have been made to benefit industry...and yet it's harmful to people, animals, the planet as a whole.  This is what puzzles me to no end.  A standard line is found, and then the industry is allowed to go beyond that standard just so they can eek out another million$ ....I will NOT try to make my point with using any statues or actual EPA standards, but here it is.

Back when I lived in NYC I worked as a temp at Con-Edison.  This company is responsible for providing electric, gas, and steam to NYC and Westchester,
$12 Billion in annual revenues.   This is before TRUMP gutted the EPA.  I can't imagine how it is now..

But here is what was happening as I saw it.  I worked at the Hudson Ave Generating Station and this is where I was at work on 911 when I witnessed the towers being hit then falling to the ground..
So this station lays right along the East River in the area known as Dumbo/Vinegar Hill right next to the Navy Shipyard.  Oil tankers cruise through the Verrazzano Strait, through the Upper Bay and into the East River to bring 1000 of Barrels of #6 crude oil to be offloaded into all the many holding tanks located at the dock.  #6 Oil is Fuel Oil, it has had some refinery. 

There was sometimes oil spills in the East river, A log book logged it all, there was allowable limits...yeah And if spilled more than allowable, they had a procedure to follow, reports had to be written, forms would flutter, and it would quietly go away until the next one. I  do not know the amount of oil, I don't know the allowable, I don't know how many times, Im just saying there was guidelines in place. Once we had a fire on the dock...the whole place could blow...its highly volitile in that area and seeing that explosion in Beirut yesterday made me think....WOW. 

Fireboats came and sprayed big plumes of water onto the barge, and other times barges have free from the mooring, and they have crashed into the dock on numerous occasions too. 

To me one drop is too much.  But at least they had stopped burning coal mainly they were moving over to natural gas a much cleaner burning fuel...back when I lived in NY in the 1970's if you spent  a day in the city  you would have a layer of black smut on you at the end of the day.  You could wipe a white tissue across your face your hair it would be covered in black smut. That no longer happens there.  

The burning of fossils fuels is nasty business.  So they had these like double burners on the smoke stacks that works like the catalytic converter of your car...the smoke goes up it's then sucked back in to reburn again reducing the size of particulars per million released into the air...so there are guidelines in place for that....emission's. So like I say in Trump's EPA these guidelines probably don't matter anymore...I don't know. 

But it was the same thing if the system was not running properly the reburns were not taking the extra particulars out of the emissions they knew about it and they had to report this to the EPA, they would normally pay a fine.  I don't know any of the rules about how much or any of those particulars.  But the point Im making is 
Why if we keep moving the ""allowable bad" bar higher, and higher, to allow industry to continue to be dirty then what's the sense? Either we Are or we ARE not doing GOOD! 

         BAD
BAD   BAD 
GOOD
But when I worked there they brought this old dead dog tower #5 back to life..read about here in the Times.  I don't know how long they kept it online, but it was a BIG summer project and they pulled it off. 
So they file their reports, paid their fines, and kept on going...all by the book nice n tidy. What good does it do to have the book if the book is dirty?

Starting to feel more human yesterday and today....Im up no fever altho my feet are being effected google up covid toe mine is not as bad as some of those photos but it's painful and makes walking painful I hope this is the last horrible symptom of this virus...and maybe I am going to be able to at some point soon resume normal life.