Monthly Archives: June 2012

Jim Black–Sierra Club Chapter Chair and incinerator promoter

Dangerous heat and bad air on the agenda for today and over the weekend.

The Chapter Chair of Delaware Sierra is now listed as Jim Black. 

Black, formerly with "Clean Air Council," made a presence in Legislative Hall, mostly by sucking up and advocating bad ideas.  He promoted a biomass incinerator in Newport Delaware, and garbage gasification, etc, in Wilmington Delaware.  A slippery and toxic guy. 

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Passing of Frieda Berryhill

Frieda passed on June 20, 2012, at the age of 90. 

She was well known nationally in the anti-nuclear movement.   Perhaps her biggest single achievement was organizing and leading the opposition ("Coalition for Nuclear Power Postponement") to a nuclear power plant Delmarva Power wanted to build on the banks of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal during the 1970s.

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