Thursday, April 18, 2013

City Receives Loan for Remediation, Welcomes Back Kleen Energy Explosion Contractors



The Mess published an article today that the state has already awarded O&G Construction LLC the contract for brown field remediation of land owned by Middletown Transit that the transit authority wishes to expland on.  Where was the public bid process??  Loan Middletown $1 million? That's like Middletown paying the state interest to allow ourselves to do the dirty work...LITERALLY!  O&G Industries is the the company that were the contractors of the Kleen Energy Plant at the time of the horrific explosion at the plant's construction site 3 years ago on February 7, 2010 that injured dozens and killed six people. O&G was found to have been in violation of a number of regulations leading up to the explosion. Although the state concluded in it's criminal investigation that no charges were to be filed ($$fishy$$). The Courant reported that Federal work-safety regulators issued more than $16 million in fines against O&G  its subcontractors and identified over 100 violations at the plant at the time of the explosion.

 And really, no one else can do this job?? Follow the money folks! So not only is Middletown welcoming back this company- the City has been told by the State this is who the City will HIRE to do the work at the Middletown Transit!

http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2013/04/18/news/doc516f338827380386937834.txt
Rep. Matt Lesser, you "championed" the bill for gas line "gas blow" testing regulations, what say you about inviting the violators back??  Rep. Bartolomeo, Doyle, Serra- are any  of you listening? 
Judge Holzberg, you presided over the wrongful death cases, what say you?
Can any of you look the family in the eyes with a clear conscience?

Does anyone else find it offensive to those who lost their lives to give this company a second shot in so little time?

9 comments:

  1. Like you said. Follow the money. It's become the root of all evil, especially in Middletown. You think the chief of police would go against any political persons and push for an arrest? Why do you think they put this phony in as chief. They own him. That's also the name of the game, put someone in a position that they don't deserve, and they owe you now. No one has the balls to do what's right anymore. Only what's right for themselves.

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  2. Plus they gave the chief's wife a job at BOE. They really own him.

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  3. Its pretty typical for the Democrats to give patronage jobs to unqualified family members of lackeys at the BOE. Ask Hope Kasper about her son in law they created a position for! Just before the superintendent gave the powerpoint presentation on the budget, I heard with my own ears through my tv at home BOE chairman Nocera call the councilmembers "mindless idiots" - guess he didn't realize mic was on! good example for the kids Gene!

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  4. Hey Anon 4:22, if NoKara gets to say one honest thing each term, he nailed it about the councilmem's!

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  5. It was fun watching the cops wife lose it, and Tommy Boy trying to answer every question for the BoE members. At list Bartlottla asked some questions. All Serra did was answer for them. What a tool bag! Does he work for the people? Or his cronies!? I guess I already know the answer to that!

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  6. The first two sentences of this post make absolutely no sense. They defy all the rules of grammer as well as logic. If you are going to bother to post please have somone edit your work.

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  7. I read the above and comprehended it just fine. Maybe you are in denial? Is this clear enough for you smarty pants?

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  8. The entire Kleen energy plant was a political boondoggle. Fortune magazine in sept. 2011 ran a detailed story of the politics involved.

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  9. Patronage is synonymous Middletown

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