Ohio EPA Dictator beta male Craig Butler afraid of unpleasant questions about his role in approving the 6 story MOUNTAIN of cancer causing toxins on Noble Road in East Cleveland sent not one but TWO girls in his stead to the townhall on June 12 at the EC Sally Ann. The two girls, Assistant Regional Co-Ordinator of EPA Misinformation Billie Jean and her trusty sidekick Susie Q raced to the front of the hall where they spent 15 minutes yucking it up with a couple of sweaty white guys in business suits before the meeting began. After an hour long circle jerk starting with the White Kennys, one from the Ohio house and one from the Ohio Senate, who desperately tried to pull out their EC street cred by mentioning their connection to long gone EC churches that were on the border of the property where the dump is now with a dizzying stream of references to elderly aunts, boy scouts and lawn mowing around the dump perimeter. Once THAT was out of the way and it's difficult to say whether the extremely respectful and polite audience actually fell for it, they paid homage to the so-called co-operation also heralded by the PD between various branches of the government THAT IN REALITY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until former EC Mayor Eric Jonathan Brewer WHO WAS NOT MENTIONED ONCE exposed the whole sorry disaster and forced their hands. They blamed the usual suspects: busy schedules, not enough regulations,lack of funding, the evil state budget run by evil Republicans who cut funding that would pay to clean it up, but NOT ONCE did they mention that Craig Butler signed and AUTHORIZED the site as a PTIO for "WOOD CONCRETE AND CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS STORAGE PILES" on August 20, 2014 that started this disaster. Does that sound like recycling to you? Me either. It was NOT a long festering problem dating back to the Dickensian 19th century, not a smoldering cauldron of lead paint and steel industry run-off. It was a harmless cement pad in the spring of 2014 when the OHIO EPA, the Land Bank and the city of East Cleveland CO-OPERATED and approved it. AS A DUMP! And then they ALL turned their backs on the residents of Noble Road as the mountain grew higher and higher. They CO-OPERATED by not returning phone calls as the residents of Noble Road, who could no longer use their front or back porches in the summer, who were contracting cancer at an alarming rate, kept calling and asking for it to be shut down and removed. The residents were basically told to shut the fuck up.

After the Kennys left the stage, promising, maybe, $6.25 million or $3 million or nothing and to throw everyone off the track they went deep into the weeds about budget reconcilliation and other boring government procedures that no one understands, not promising if the money would be approved this year or next year, OR EVER it was Billie Jean's turn onstage. She of course celebrated the CO-OPERATION of all the guilty parties but without mentioning that the dump should NEVER have been approved in a RESIDENTIAL area IN THE FIRST PLACE. BY CRAIG BUTLER. She said the EPA miraculously HAS $1 million and they are going to start with "Phase One" which the EPA has decided to use to remove all the concrete and asphalt. I didn't stay for the questions but one does wonder how THAT will be ferreted out from the rest. It's also the cheapest to remove and the LEAST TOXIC. "Phase 2" is ALL the rest, the asbestos, the gyprock, the drywall, the freon from refrigerators, the lead paint, the dead and living rats, the bugs, the noxious odors, the endless poison dust, the metaphorical dead bodies will JUST HAVE TO WAIT.

As an aside Billie Sue said that there is NO MONEY to "regulate" recycling depots, only landfills! WOW. REALLY??!! With thousands of overpaid EPA 'workers" spread across the state of Ohio in 5 different locales they have no money for anything other than paychecks. So it seems that the Landbank CO-OPERATED with the Ohio EPA by just calling the Arco DUMP a recycling depot. What's in a name after all? Well in this case EVERYTHING.