Channel 17 Reports - Love Canal Episode 102
In this Channel 17 Report, the long-awaited cleanup of the Love Canal area begins as crews create drainage systems to carry away toxic chemicals that contaminated the area, forcing 200 families from their homes. Neighborhoods advocate for transparency and demand health assessments and provisions for those who suffer respiratory health conditions before construction can begin.
Test evacuations were held for residents in the unlikely event that they would need to be relocated due to toxic exposure during the clean-up.
Channel 17 reporters also speak with families who've been denied an opportunity to be moved from the Love Canal areas because of health concerns.
Reporters interview cancer research experts who confirm that 11 carcinogens were found in the soil around the Love Canal site. Data shows an increase in miscarriages and birth defects. Assessment continues, yet officials admit that it might take years to fully understand the exact cause of the contamination.
This episode originally aired on October 13, 1978
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Love Canal still causing problems all these years later
Allow me to take a different view, going back in time. Niagara Falls was a city with inexpensive electricity and was an alluring location for industrial corporations. As such, the brightest of technological minds populated the area. As industries grew, so did the waste byproducts. As we know now and as they (scientists & engineers and management) knew back then, these byproducts were hazardous. Otherwise, the dumping as done would not have occurred. This (hazardous) material would simply have been disposed of in the same manner as all other waste. The lead up to the Love Canal incident was practiced by countless other corporations, nationally, in many other sites including the military's Lake Ontario Ordinance Works property, which continues. We must ask ourselves how such an occurrance took place with the brightest of minds at the helm. Back then, remediation of toxic waste was to bury it or dump it into waterways, large bodies of water, etc. Today's remediation is to simply remove the "excaped" toxic contaminents and transfer it to another dump site or burn it. The shell game is a profitable one. With government picking up the tab, those in control (the largest of bankers) see the problem thru profit. In other words, take the profit from the corp which is (cheaply) dumping hazardous waste. Make a large enough dump site and have the govt pay yet another (largest of bankers) financed clean-up corporation accepting govt contracts. The largest of corporations getting direct or indirect exemption of liability. To them, it's bad business to pay out of pocket (loss of profit thru litigation), when a profitable solution (banker's controlled specialty corporation) is available. Think Military Industrial Complex (and it's bankers) profit in destroying Iraq, then US govt giving very lucrative construction contracts to Haliburton to rebuild. Score it: US corporations and largest banks 1, Iraq people and US taxpayers 0. Does AO-C know this is how build back better works? However, some clean-ups have yet to be deemed profitable. So, the sites sit. In Hanford's case, it's a possible Chernobl without the containment structure. Good thing Hanford is surrounded by a river. Hanford, too, had the brightest of minds running it and dumping took place onsite.