UPDATE: New Orleans East Landfill - State & Company To Continue Dumping Despite City Expiration Date

Follow-up story to original VIDEO & stories Np! 50266 & Np! 52613:
"NO DUMPING!: 12 Billion tons of Waste to Be Dumped in Illegal Landfill in New Orleans East Vietnamese Community" & "Landfill Testing Called a Farce".

EDITORIAL: Public pressure makes a difference!

The Citizens of New Orleans East, with the support of Louisiana Environmental Action Network & The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.'s human rights organization), have forced this issue of the illegal dumping of literally millions of tons of hurricane debris in the wetlands that is literally their backyards.

Due to public pressure, Mayor Ray Nagin temporarily stopped dumping in New Orleans East in May only to resume dumping --- the day after his re-election in the circus that passed for elections in New Orleans this spring. However the unified New Orleans East community stepped up lobbying efforts to close the illegal landfill, and recently Nagin agreed to let dumping in New Orleans East Landfill expire along with his executive order on August 14th... But Waste Management Inc., the company contracted to remove the massive debris still piled up all over the city, along with Louisiana State's so-called "Department of Environmental Quality", announced that they will continute dumping anyway. It is widely agreed upon that if the dumpsite was to be put to public hearings, as required by law, that it would not be passed into existence.

To get detailed information on this continuing struggle and support the citizens of New Orleans East, go to: www.saveneworleanseast.org. For detailed information on the latest developments, read this article by Gordon Russell of New Orleans daily paper, the Times Picayune.

Even in these days of massive weapons and escalating destruction, the little things matter. Power to the Peaceful!