My little brother was doing a school project on Environmental Racism and I read this of off one of his websites... I didn't even know it was like this - thats some fucked up shit:
"Hunter's Point was formerly the oldest drydock and shipyard repair facility on the Pacific Coast. The U. S. launched its nuclear attacks against Japan during WWII, from its bases in the San Francisco Bay area, including the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard facility. When the nuclear aircraft carrier "Enterprise" had a nuclear disaster at sea, during the Vietnam War, it returned to Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, where its nuclear fuel and contaminated waste contaminated a large region of the shipyard facility, including a strip of contaminated submerged mud. After WWII, the Hunter's Point Shipyard became the regional depository for all sorts of materials known to be hazardous to humans, including radium, heavy metals, dioxins and other types of hormone disrupters made from petroleum and petrochemicals.
Since that time, the residents of Hunter's Point and the Bayview Districts have suffered an increase in heart disease and cardiovascular disorders, cancer of all types, birth defects, neurological and psychological disorders, reproductive disorders, and respiratory disorders. In fact, the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest rate of breast cancer in the nation. Recent studies indicate that the residents living in the communities near Hunter's Point Shipyard suffer a much higher incident rate of birth defects.
The U. S. Navy, which closed the base in the seventies, is now refusing to clean-up the dump site, to community, or residential standards.
After the shipyard received the designation of "Superfund Clean-up Site" by the U. S. Government in the late 1990's, several government agencies, including the U. S. Navy seemed to be involved in a conspiracy to prevent, or slow-down, a clean-up. This is an excellent example of environmental racism.
Their methods included filing deceptive and misleading EIR/EIS Reports, which claimed that clean-up would be impossible, without further damaging the environment and further injuring the local residents, to creating a Restoration Advisory Board, or RAB, in which leaders of the community and concerned citizens were allowed membership, supposedly to give the people of San Francisco more of a voice in the clean-up process. However, the whole process seemed prejudicial and deceptive. Many of the old RAB Board members were sell-outs who would drag their feet, instead of taking immediate action. And, the U.S. Navy maintained a dominant, racist style of control over the RAB Board, especially the spending of money by the Superfund.
As a result, over $300 million dollars has been spent, to date, on clean-up activities. However, less than 18% went to members or businesses within the local community. In contrast, the Navy had specific contractors which they funneled the money to. Thus, the Navy channelled the money from the superfund clean-up to well-established, dominant, white businesses, like contractors. This is another example of environmental racism.
In another instance, outside workers hired by these contractors "flew" a hangman's noose from a prominent sign near the old shipyard - - a traditional sign of white hatred and racism toward people of color."
-- http://www.envweb.net/hunterspoint.html#aaaaa
"Hunter's Point was formerly the oldest drydock and shipyard repair facility on the Pacific Coast. The U. S. launched its nuclear attacks against Japan during WWII, from its bases in the San Francisco Bay area, including the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard facility. When the nuclear aircraft carrier "Enterprise" had a nuclear disaster at sea, during the Vietnam War, it returned to Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, where its nuclear fuel and contaminated waste contaminated a large region of the shipyard facility, including a strip of contaminated submerged mud. After WWII, the Hunter's Point Shipyard became the regional depository for all sorts of materials known to be hazardous to humans, including radium, heavy metals, dioxins and other types of hormone disrupters made from petroleum and petrochemicals.
Since that time, the residents of Hunter's Point and the Bayview Districts have suffered an increase in heart disease and cardiovascular disorders, cancer of all types, birth defects, neurological and psychological disorders, reproductive disorders, and respiratory disorders. In fact, the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest rate of breast cancer in the nation. Recent studies indicate that the residents living in the communities near Hunter's Point Shipyard suffer a much higher incident rate of birth defects.
The U. S. Navy, which closed the base in the seventies, is now refusing to clean-up the dump site, to community, or residential standards.
After the shipyard received the designation of "Superfund Clean-up Site" by the U. S. Government in the late 1990's, several government agencies, including the U. S. Navy seemed to be involved in a conspiracy to prevent, or slow-down, a clean-up. This is an excellent example of environmental racism.
Their methods included filing deceptive and misleading EIR/EIS Reports, which claimed that clean-up would be impossible, without further damaging the environment and further injuring the local residents, to creating a Restoration Advisory Board, or RAB, in which leaders of the community and concerned citizens were allowed membership, supposedly to give the people of San Francisco more of a voice in the clean-up process. However, the whole process seemed prejudicial and deceptive. Many of the old RAB Board members were sell-outs who would drag their feet, instead of taking immediate action. And, the U.S. Navy maintained a dominant, racist style of control over the RAB Board, especially the spending of money by the Superfund.
As a result, over $300 million dollars has been spent, to date, on clean-up activities. However, less than 18% went to members or businesses within the local community. In contrast, the Navy had specific contractors which they funneled the money to. Thus, the Navy channelled the money from the superfund clean-up to well-established, dominant, white businesses, like contractors. This is another example of environmental racism.
In another instance, outside workers hired by these contractors "flew" a hangman's noose from a prominent sign near the old shipyard - - a traditional sign of white hatred and racism toward people of color."
-- http://www.envweb.net/hunterspoint.html#aaaaa
