Love Canal Tragedy (Part 2 of 3)
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2016
- IN 1978 700 FAMILIES FROM 237 HOMES FLED WHEN 80 TONS OF DEADLY CHEMICALS SURFACED IN THEIR NIAGARA FALLS, NY NEIGHBORHOOD..WITH FRAN LUCCA AT THE EDITOR'S DESK.
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Mr Fran Lucca, you are an honor to your profession, old-style journalism at its most concerned and fair. thank you for this video; it has been a true education for me
In 1978 my family purchased a home just a few blocks away from Love Canal. I had many friends who lived in Love Canal and spent alot of time there as a teen. I remember when they evacuated the people that there were blocks of abandoned houses. As a young teenager we used to ride our bikes through there and it was a ghost town. As a youngster we used to explore these abandoned structures never thinking about how contaminated these places could be. I will never forget the sickness and misery Love Canal brought to these people. Years later they started moving people back into this area unbelievably.
If anything like this happens it's our job as patriots to burn the corporation down that caused the hazard.
OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT IS THE LATEST SAME STORY ABOUT TO GET EPA'D.
I’ve always wondered what it must have been like to see all of the abandoned houses, and even the abandoned school decay while still having to live there. Did you ever get to explore the school when it was abandoned ?
@@jounhhhn The school itself wasn't very old because none of Love Canal including the school was developed or built until the middle or late 1950's, with most of the houses built in the early 1960's, so in 1975 and 1976 when the whole Love Canal dumpsite fiasco blew up, the school and oldest of the homes built there were barely even 15-20 years old, if that. This wasn't an old abandoned school or houses by any means and many of the houses were comfortable, late "mid-century" ranch style homes, in an old small heavy-industrial city where most of the housing stock was 50-75 years old by the 1970's.
Wowwww!! I just went to Niagara Falls this summer, and was SHOCKED to see how abandoned the town was. Had nothing to do with the Love Canal, but I'm even more shocked I've never heard about it!
Dont fool yourself- the state of the city of NFNY has everything to do with Love Canal. It is a ripple effect. The disregard for human life shown by these corporations and their criminal disposal of the leftovers from the Manhattan Project produced in the plants on Buffalo Avenue have spread throughout the entire city. The slag from these radioactive wastes were used to pave roads throughout the city. The dumping was done all over the city- not just in the canal dumpsite.
Therefore- no corporation in their right mind would ever choose NFNY to house their company. Much of the city is a Brownfield. All this leads to no jobs and no import of talented, intelligent outsiders from other areas of the country. Very few folks ever move to NF. It's been a long slow exodus- leaving the city as a bombed out wasteland.
But much is still kept secret so as not to totally crater the tourism industry- the last vestige of revenue producing industry the city is fortunate to have.
Sadly- zero dollars of the tourism trade are re-invested in the city- that money is all sent to Albany.
Disgusting.
Great reporting on this story Mr. Lucca!
People don't get mad & organize like this anymore. Sadly the environmental issues have only worsened, as has the corporate fascism in this country. Corporations have all the power now.
How are all these women such queens?
I wrote 6 papers about this disaster 20 years ago in college................sad, very sad
Wow, I am writing a paper about it in college right now.
I'm reminded of a line in the movie, Tootsie, where Dustin Hoffman complains that nobody is interested in his screenplay entitled, Return To Love Canal.
Little did I know people WERE actually moved back to Love Canal!
Don't screw with western New Yorkers. These people work hard and they don't take crap or suffer fools gladly
From the dark haired lady and the balding man at the meeting. Preach it. I’m sick and tired of being a yo yo.:-))
Thats the late Mr. Arthur Tracy. He lived on 102nd st. Lois Gibbs describes him as a "very effective public speaker" in one of her books. The dark haired woman is Debbie Cerrillo. She was the vice president of the Love Canal Homeowners Association. She had already been evacuated 2 years before this video was recorded, But she continued her activism for the remaining residents who hadnt been evacuated yet.
So much for wht spmcy. Fantastic upload and work.
And Pete ButtPlug was just about a month ago talking about how certain roads and bridges are racist if I ever run into that clown I'm gonna ask him if the love canal or East Palestine tragedies were racist. Biden administration is a joke
What about the ppl who lived in Griffen manor 😮
HOOKER CHEMICAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE THE PPL PLEASE SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT WAS THE RESULT WITH HOOKER
From what I understand hooker sold the land to the city of niagara falls for 1 dollar. In the papers of the transfer, hooker acknowledged that there were chemicals. The simple fact that the city knew of this when it was purchased meant that hooker chemical was no longer liable for any damages.
God I miss the '70s. Was everybody orange back then?
Norma Rae, Mother Jones, Karen Silkwood: want something done? Give it to a busy woman.
Wonder what Lois Gibbs is up to these days?
A bunch of hooligans getting bent out of shape about some benzene and coal tar.
People are saying they want out... what is preventing them from leaving?
money they owe on there homes back then
People every day want to leave WNY only to find out no one wants to live in WNY and your asking price for your home is somehow too high. You just end up staying...
i love living in WNY, never wanna leave if I don't have to
That should be pretty obvious. They are blue collar people who will be leaving behind the single biggest investment of their lifetimes with no compensation for it and no money to invest in a home elsewhere if they just leave.
Is it really that HARD to find any kind of empathy in your heart?
What if your were born in their circumstances (not being rich, strapped with mortgages), do you really think it’s _that_ easy to leave. These people _aren’t_ stupid you know. Maybe it’s people who make these judgmental questions? As if it can’t take you 2 seconds to place yourself in someone else’s shoes? Is it _that_ hard to imagine??
Typical Carter Administration crap. Today, they would get help from the President, or a GoFundMe page would fill up with billions in donations to help these people.
BIDEN ? NO. HE WILL SELL THEM DYLAR DRUGS WITH HUNTERS INVESTMENTS. OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT IS THE LATEST SAME STORY ABOUT TO GET EPA'D. WHITE NOISE NETFLIX. HOPE I AM WRONG.
My callus opinion is if you want your “movement” to actually gain traction you need a vocal, persistent attractive female to capture the attention of the media who sees her cause as a great way to make a buck. She needs to be attractive enough that someone who has no clue about her cause will tune in enough to hear it. No offense but look the St. Louis nuclear dump disaster, Gibbs is a part of that too and it has zero traction. 6 years later the same group of moms is still trying to raise awareness… not going to happen sorry!
Sadly, I think you may be right. It might have to take a PMOY to get anything done right assuming that PMOY actually has integrity and won’t be bought out?