STILL POLLUTING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Perhaps the new County Commissioners will mpw see fit to empower the families and other residents who were hurt by APAC's pollution by autho0rizing the County Attorney to file a public nuisance lawsuit.

Under previous County Attorney DANIEL BOSANKO, lies were told to Commissioners by FDEP and an Assistant County Attorney, lies were told tp citizens by Commissioner KAREN STERN (who took samples that were never returned or analyzed) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) did nothing except for tiny fines.

As my friend David Thundershield Queen puts it best, FDEP stands for "don't expect protection."

Make no mistake -- this APAC asphalt plant is a synecdoche (a part that stands for the whole) about corruption in St. Johns County. The public and private schools have ketp silent, the Commissioners have mostly kept silent and

Anywhere else in America, a residential neighborhood, public and private schools, nursing homes, residence and HUD public housing for seniors would not be coated with tarry black gook that sends people to the emergency room.

County Commissioners should be ashamed of themselves for not responding in 2005.

See below (4000 word article from Collective Press in 2005).

A later article documented how an arson fire by APAC caught the conveyor belt on line, requiring some 17 firemen and 12 pieces of equipment, whom ASHLAND sent on their way, calling it a "controlled burn."

The normal way of ridding a conveyor belt of asphalt is to use petroleum-based solvents, not fire.

The normal way of doing business in St. Johns County is to cover up for U.S. multinational corporations.

Now that APAC is owned by an Irish multinational corporation, residents need to call the Irish Embassy and oppose this continuing source of pollution and call it what it now is -- an international incident.