All the anti-pollution stuff just costs all of us more money, one way or another. Went to township hall meeting the other night. Item on the agenda was to send a sub-contractor who does our DPW work to a "Stormwater Conference" to "get certified". Huh? Turns out the Michigan DEQ has been on our butts because we've got a construction "project" (asphalt bike path) that's in the final stages of construction and we haven't been doing "stormwater runoff monitoring" evidently. The contractor putting in the bike path will do it for $1400 per inspection and bill it to our small township (i.e. every time it rains, send someone down to look at the site). It's cheaper to get our guy certified and pay his hourly rate to do it.
But the point is, it's a 10' wide asphalt path, it's not a strip coal mine. So, besides construction companies and municipalities having to pay conference fees to get their people training (full employment for the training companies), we've got a bunch of bureaucrats who are hired solely to monitor rain water and where it goes.
Same goes for the ISO 14001 certification (environmental). Last company I worked for, we paid thousands of dollars every year for auditors to come in and make sure we were disposing of our paint thinners, parts cleaning stuff and even our light bulbs with a paper trail through a 3rd party company. That was on top of the thousands we were paying a month to have the company come in and get the stuff. What really irritated me was that we kept the fluorescent bulbs in a special area for them to pick up when we accumulated enough and we got dinged by an auditor for not "dating" them. He said we could only hold the used bulbs for a year before having them picked up. I was tempted to just throw them in the dumpster like most other companies do.
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