Kanjorski flashback: Inflatable dam equals economic investment

Tom, I would have left a comment on your site regarding the following absurdity posted by none other than you, but as it turns out, it'd be easier to acquire nuclear launch codes than it would be trying to add feedback on your site.

You wrote:

For those concerned about Marcellus Shale drilling, which all of us should be given the methane welling up in the Susquehanna, the poisoned well-water of families in Susquehanna, and on and on, then Paul Kanjorski is the man to vote for.

The League of Conservation Voters gave Kanjorski a perfect score last year. That means he voted for the environment 100% of the time.

If elected, Kanjorski would continue that trend and protect our region’s environment, something it sorely needs from elected officials. It’s an easy choice for November, I’d say.

That is offensive in so many ways, it boggles the limited minds such as mine.

Paul Kanjorski's most famous pet project was the now-forgotten inflatable dam project at Wilkes-Barre. A misguided and short-sighted pork-funded idea that would have put a dam in the way of Acid Mine Drainage, unchecked Combined Sewage Outflows blowing untold millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Susquehanna River every time it gets to raining for any length of time, algae blooms, fecal deltas, floaters, as well as the infamous Butler Mine Tunnel's toxic runoff that is home to a permanent, emergency-only, rapidly-deployable coffer dam.

Endangered, free-flowing rivers can regenerate themselves if the pollutants are systematically removed from the damaging mix. But to fight to dam an endangered river is to promote it's eventual demise as a destination point, it's viability as a nurturer of fish, fowl and the like, and it's promised life-sustaining sustenance if and when we work to protect it.

Paul Kanjorski voted for the environment 100% of the time?

Paul Kanjorski wouldn't recognize the environment if we dragged him down there and forced him to take his first-ever good look at it.

And as this pertains to the Marcellus Shale debacle-in-the-making, the lack of a moratorium on further drilling proves that Uncle Paul is as ineffective and unconcerned as are the rest of our locally elected do-nothings.

While he can make the claim that he's secured the Fedrule funding to reclaim parts of our lands previously destroyed by our Anthracite past, he can make no such claim as to protecting our natural resources, current or future.

All things considered, the rubber dam man is no friend to our environment, nor to our still free-flowing river.

Buh-bye