letter to the editor

Incinerate waste, bye bye tourism billions

Posted 12/18/24

A recent editorial in a local newspaper gushed euphorically about the possibility of a billon dollar plus income for Sullivan County “…thanks to the tourism industry.” Tourism is …

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letter to the editor

Incinerate waste, bye bye tourism billions

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A recent editorial in a local newspaper gushed euphorically about the possibility of a billon dollar plus income for Sullivan County “…thanks to the tourism industry.” Tourism is by far the biggest source of Sullivan County’s economic income.  Tourists and second homeowners flock to Sullivan County for our pristine environment and natural beauty. But if some county legislators succeed in their current effort to set up a Waste to Energy (W to E) incinerator to handle the county’s waste disposal problem, you can kiss that tourism and secondhome owner money goodbye. Bringing in a waste incinerator like W to E jeopardizes the county’s environmental and economic well-being. Waste incineration pollutes air, water and land with horrific forever chemicals, toxic gasses, ash, and other by-products that require special hazardous waste disposal; and endanger areas far beyond the incinerator itself. We cannot let this happen. 

Please contact your legislators and county officials and tell them not to mess up a good thing!  Keep our county clean and pollution free. NO trash incinerators to dispose of waste! There are better and safer ways to do this.  

Star D. Hesse
Narrowsburg, NY

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