This week the Mobile City Council voted to approve putting in an ice skating rink for two months and even managed to get a corporate sponsor to donate $50,000 to help offset the cost. Wow, $50,000 could have employed a full time worker to remove trash from the trash polluted Three Mile Creek watershed for at least a full year.
The City of Mobile and big business are quick to find money for an ice rink. When it comes to removing trash from its polluted waterways, the City of Mobile and big business won't even put one person to work removing the trash.
As the Pope speaks about the importance of taking care of our Environment, the community of Mobile is trashing their precious waterways and totally ignoring the trash pollution.
It is obvious to me from the seat of my Kayak that organized volunteer cleanups like the one held this past weekend are not removing the City's MS4 trash from these polluted waterways. Just look at these photos taken yesterday in the Three Mile Creek watershed. What Cleanup?
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the United States Environmental Protection Agency are proving to be incapable of dealing with the simple trash pollution problem. Someone needs to be fired if not go to jail for ignoring the continuing violations of the federal Clean Water Act in Mobile.
What is the simple problem? No one is removing the City's MS4 trash from our precious waterways. ZERO! What is the simple solution? The City or Corporate Sponsors need to put someone to work removing the trash from the City's precious waterways. Sadly, a stupid ass Ice Rink is more important than the City's polluted waterway environments.
All the local Environmental Groups like Mobile Baykeeper and Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and Environmental Lawyers must have their head up their ass because they continue to ignore Mobile's obviously trash polluted waterways. There sure is some ugly leadership in Mobile.