BS: Pete's Golden River: Clearwater!

Subject: Pete's Golden River: Clearwater!
From: LR Mole
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 10:40 AM

As of this morning, General Electric has been ordered by the courts to clean the PCB's out of the Hudson River bottom. I assume somewhere down the line the innocent will end up paying for it, but still, this one time, poison and the almighty dollar haven't won. Thanks, captain.

Subject: RE: BS: Pete's Golden River: Clearwater!
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 11:46 AM

It is great news for the River!

Unfortunately, knowing the GE mentality first-hand, this will probably mean layoffs across the board in GE owned businesses - and you know the layoffs won't be coming from the executive ranks!

Ron

Subject: RE: BS: Pete's Golden River: Clearwater!
From: BH
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 08:26 PM

My understanding of the situation is that it is being---as usual--appealed. No comment--as they say-from the parties till they properly peruse the documents.

Don't look for this to happen too soon. But---Whitman made a few headlines. GE, of course, goes its way from Communications, Insurance, and all the other fields it is involved in. So, whatever happened to the "electric" part of its name?

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Pete's Golden River: Clearwater!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 11:28 PM

Of course they will appeal, and they might win. However that doesn't take away from this major action. This goes against everything that was expected when George W. took office.

Jack Welch, who is enjoying his retirement on money that could clean up the river, urged his employees to vote for Bush. The take on it was that he would receive favorable handling of the issue from a Bush administration. Did anyone expect Whitman and Bush to support the cleanup? Hardly.

Naturally the battle still continues, but this is a major step!

Ron