Posted on 08/19/2008 6:18:37 AM PDT by rawhide
Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.
The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''
Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.
Last week, a fire at the recycling plant inflamed growing tensions between residents, who say the plant has ruined their neighborhood, and RPM co-owner Nolan A. Perin, who says he's spent $200,000 to help calm the noise and wonders why he's being criticized for bringing industry to an industrial park.
Neidlinger said the shredding operation is a payback for opposition to the Wal-Mart project.
''The noise is a constant nuisance and the explosions make our windows shake,'' Neidlinger said. ''I just feel Mr. Perin put this there out of spite after the shopping center development fell through.''
Perin, who owns the 200 acres near the Wind Gap border, denies that.
''That's about as childish a thought as a person can have,'' Perin said. ''We proposed that recycling plant long before the [Wal-Mart] retail development fell through. I want to be a good neighbor, but I wish people would bring their complaints to me, rather than the media.''
(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...
Suck it up, Walt ... ROTFL. See the “law of unintended consequences”.
Recycling kills.
>>>local opposition from residents.
“think locally, act globally!”
it is a funny article.
wal-mart is so evil and all.
When we were kids we used to say, “My heart bleeds purple peanut butter”. LOL
Somebody call a Waaaah-mbulance
Allentown, Pennsylvania, hayna? Or no?
Where is this? What state?
Well, duh, Ned.............You know what they say about PAYBACK...................
Yeah, what are they complaining about? Evil Walmart out and a "Green" company in. It's recycling dude. That's good.
My mother used to say, "Be careful what you wish for, sometimes you get it."
There's the money quote, right there......
These fools blame the company for doing exactly what businesses do. Instead, they should be blaming their elected officials for not zoning properly, or themselves for not electing the right people, or making sure that their elected officals were doing their jobs.
Heh.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Plainfeld, Connecticut
Most residents didn't know it was coming largely because it is an approved use for that land and did not need any additional approvals by the township's zoning office...
They don't have any reasons for complaints...............
Gee, ya think???
Maybe you shouldn't harrass people for trying to use their land as they see fit in the first place, Bozo.
What’s he bitching about? From the way it sounds he was probably one of those into “greening America”. This is recycling, he should be happy. I’m ecstatic that he is miserable.
Two things.
This Neidlinger guy thinks the world is all about him apparently.
But, why are there frequent explosions at a metal recylcler?
Liberals love recycling...when it’s somewhere else.
Liberals love renewable energy...when they can’t see the windmills.
Liberals love energy-efficiency...when they don’t have to turn down their thermostat in winter.
And on and on and on...
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