Newberry Springs park.
Many residents in northwestern Newberry Springs are being
inundated by Clearway Energy's blowing sand. The associated toxic
carcinogenic silica dust from Clearway is already accelerating the silica
coating of many residents' lungs.
Each resident may someday require hundreds of thousands
of dollars in premature medical end-of-life treatment. Hopefully,
they will have good health insurance or have MediCal as a fallback.
Respiratory medical treatment is expensive. My COVID
friend that I have previously written about blew through $90,000-plus during her
first 2-days in an ICU. After several months of ICU, her out-of-hospital
medical care in a facility is costing $140,000/year. Medical care
isn't cheap.
It might be interesting to those now suffering from Clearway's
suffocating sand and dust to learn that the Newberry CSD board of directors (that
capitulated in their lawsuit against the County that greenlighted Clearway's
blowing sand), is now proudly supporting Clearway !
(Note: Director Margie Roberts was not on the board at the
time of the CSD's community betrayal. Larry Clark was.)
The Newberry CSD, through the efforts of local youth baseball
enthusiast Michael Matson, has been cozing-up to Clearway and has accepted
$4,000 in cash from Clearway for a scoreboard. Additional free grading
from Blattner to level the CSD's baseball field is also valued in the thousands
of dollars.
The Newberry baseball field is indeed looking great, and
it is largely due to the efforts of Newberry resident Michael Matson, but
the solication of Clearway by Matson and the CSD for a relatively tiny
donation is absolutely disgusting.
Begging Clearway and giving Clearway a good citizen platform
is asinine and is yet another CSD public relations blunder. Clearway
has Newberrian blood on its hands and Clearway has wiped that blood onto
Newberry's park.
The Newberry Springs Chamber of Commerce has also reportedly
accepted money from Clearway as well as the Newberry Springs Senior
Center's sell-out for exterior parking lot lights.
Compared to the potential of the hundreds of millions of
dollars in accumulative future medical expenses and death that the CSD directors
have burdened upon the Newberry residents, the petty donations from billion dollar
Clearway and Blattner are laughable. It is amazing how cheaply the Newberry
CSD directors continue to sell out Newberry !
Now, Michael Matson and the CSD board have talked about
hanging a big thank you banner on the baseball field's outfield fence
thanking Clearway and Blattner for their generous community
contributions ! Talk about rubbing salt into the
community's open wounds.
The lack of common sense and the lack of sensitivity of
the CSD board are outrageous !
Taxpaying Newberry residents are expected to attend baseball
games, fireworks, Halloween, and other festivities in their park with repulsive
signage praising the greedy corporate bastards who are callously subjecting
Newberry's young kids and adults to hazardous elevated levels of cancer causing
silica dust.
The Newberry CSD board stubbornly refuses to acknowledge their
role and to be held accountable to the community for its betrayal and the ambushing
of the Friends of Newberry Springs in renigning on the CSD's soleum promise to
litigate the County's permitting of the Clearway project.
In the litigation, the CSD held an exceptionally strong
position which the Board stupidly and sneakedly surrendered.
During the Black Lives Matter marches, demonstrators shouted
out for the rememberance of names. Newberrians should be demonstrating
also and shouting out against the notorious names of the CSD dimwits:
Robert Springer - Paula Deel - Jack Unger -
Vicky Paulsen and Margie Roberts!
It has been one bad decision after another from these lunkheads
who continue to mismanage the community. Until the CSD board is replaced,
Newberry will continue to lose.
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