K D B UTh'
cientific c dential, Ci lak
aid he was an undergraduate in
physics.
He denied the facility w an
incinerator, calling it a "boiler."
Many of the 85 idents who
gathered in the Blackwell Cen­
ter to hear the debate were kep­
tical of such claims.
One of them, Gr gory Lyles,
asked, "Do you have a 100�
guarantee that this - whatever
you want to call it - will not
hurt our children. "
"No," Cieslak answered.
"W 'r not GOO."
One man ked CECE if they
had proof that there were
greater health hazards in areas
where the company faciliti ex­
isted. One white woman from
Madison, Michigan, who came
to the debate, said cancer was 50
percenthigher in her own city
than other parts of Oakland
County.
SHE ADDED, THOUGH,
"They should not have to prove
it (health problems with such a
process). The company should be
able to prove it has no danger to
citizens. They will never be able
to prove it and this man (Ci­
eslak) said so (during the de­
ba "
added the problem was
n nly "environmen al ra­
cism," but "a low political eq­
uity," which affected white
people with less power, like the
members of her community.
"I say not in my back yard,"
she said, "and I consider High­
land Park my back yard."
Tanya Sharon of CECE said,
"We don't know what's going to
be burned there, because there's
no regulation."
She said that despite Ci­
eslak's assurances nothing dan- '
gerous would be done at the
facility, the county regulatory
agency expressly allowed the
company to use dangerou sub­
stances, such as sulfur dioxide,
mercury, and'PCB.
ONE SUPPORTER OF the
Facility called it "state of the
art."
A CECE member. answered
that the phrase "state of the art"
was a "buzz word" to "make you'
think you're getting something
special." It simply meant the lat­
est developments in the best
available method in a specific
process, but this did not mean it
was safe, she emphasized.
"Thespace shuttle that blew
up was state of the art," she said,
"Cars that have been recalled
(for being dangerous) were state
of the art." "Incineration," she
said "is the wrong way to elimi­
nate medical waste," indicating
studies showed that there were
safer and less expensive ways to
deal with medical waste.
A company official claimed
that their facil ities wer rated
among the top hr uni and
were used by the U.S. Environ­
mental Protection Agency to et
standards. However, CECE
members charged EPA tand­
ards were inadequate and the
whole process was b ically un-
afe.
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