Posted on 07/07/2014 3:48:39 PM PDT by jazusamo
Aerospace giant Boeing finds itself in a fishy fight against Native Americans and environmentalists over pollution in the waterways -- a disagreement that could affect where Washington state's largest employer builds the next generation of planes.
At the heart of the fight, which could impact thousands of jobs, is a peculiar question: How much locally caught fish do Washingtonians eat, and what are the health risks?
Green groups, alone with Washington state tribes, have sued the Environmental Protection Agency to push for increased fish consumption rates -- currently set at six-and-a-half grams a day.
If the number is set higher, it would trigger tougher standards on toxins flowing into the Puget Sound.
Businesses -- and especially Boeing -- are bracing for a possible regulatory blow. Any EPA decision to jack up the fish consumption rates, and in turn pollution standards, could force the aerospace company to pay tens of millions of dollars more to treat storm water runoff.
"To mandate this one-size-fits-all, incredibly stringent requirement that you can't even comply with because the technology doesn't even exist to even measure that standard or comply with that standard -- it's absurd," said Erin Shannon, with the Washington Policy Center.
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The limousine liberals in Seattle don’t want any of those pesky middle class people on their roads or beaches.
Boeing can and does use contractors much to the consternation of the union thugs. The only reason they are still staying in Seattle is the infrastructure is there. You simply can not move a production facility that size somewhere else. Also you’ll need to relocate the employees. You can’t show up in a new town and have thousands of engineers and laborers ready to go. Another thing, with this vindictive jackwad of a president would Boeing EVER get permission to build a facility anywhere???
Obama and the EPA know Boeing can’t leave Seattle and they’ll wring them out for every penny they can.
Mostly true, but not completely. After all, they did start up a line in SC.
Exactly. Shutdown operations in Washington. Let em suck clean air!!
Boeing can star a line for either brand new components or aircraft models. For realistic purposes they can not move the Washington plant because of the infrastructure already in place. The SC plant builds components and ‘rear ends’ for the tails of the 787. They do some completion work there but only after the aircraft are flying.
OP
(Recovering engineer in the business 15 years until I quit and started my own company)
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