Perfect: Los Angeles School Named After Al Gore Built on Toxic Soil
**Written by Doug Powers
The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences in Los Angeles is set to open on September 13th — maybe.
The school is named after uber capitalist hyper-hypocrite Al Gore, as well as Rachel Carson, who championed a DDT ban that was responsible for millions of malaria deaths but somehow saved the planet, thus earning her a prime position on the mantle of eco-humanitarianism.
The school will open, provided all the toxic dirt (enough to almost fill a pair of Gore’s pants) can be removed and replaced in time:
Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. All told, workers removed dirt from two 3,800-square-foot plots to a depth of 45 feet [what's the carbon footprint of this excavation & refill? - DP], space enough to hold a four-story building. The soil had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses.
Additional contamination may have come from the underground tanks of an adjacent gas station. A barrier will stretch 45 feet down from ground level to limit future possible fuel leakage.
An oil well operates across the street, but officials said they’ve found no associated risks. Like many local campuses, this school also sits above an oil field, but no oil field-related methane has been detected.
Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said.
Some environmentalists are aghast:
“Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public’s health from harm,” an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe “would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society.”
An affront to the great work they’ve done? All in all, I’d say that putting Al Gore’s name on a contaminated school is just about the most intellectually honest thing to come from any educational institution in the history of the United States. Potayto, potahto.
Speaking of vegetables, who wants to be the first to take a bite of something from the Carson-Gore Academy’s garden?
The principal also envisions an organic garden that could produce a student-led farmer’s market.
Suwol said Lowry sounds “incredibly wonderful,” but added that she’d feel better if the vegetables were grown in planters above the ground.
Why not grow them in the ground? A “consensus of scientists” say the soil is clean. Grow ‘em in the ground and let Al have the first bite so we can see how seriously he values scientific consensus when it comes to eating something that may or may not make his second chakra glow in the dark.
(h/t Newsbusters)
**Written by Doug Powers
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The only thing more appropriate would be if the sky somehow fell on the site.
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After Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his ilk finish trashing California–agricultural skills will be the only thing left to learn in skul that will be valuable to the yuts.
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Kali drives the businesses and taxpayers into other states. Toxic carrots, anyone? The de-industrialization of California is in full swing.
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John Bibb
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The companies that are contracted to remove and replace hazardous soil will often times take another location’s contaminated soil back to the excavated property. Add 3 inches of top soil and you’re done. An easy profit of one million bucks. I would love to read the disclaimer and liability releases the parents and students have to sign. I’m sure AlGargoyle will be excluded from lawsuits when these kids hair and teeth fall out.
Maybe California can truck the contaminated soil to add to Spud Butts Garden -
Carson & Gore both lied to advance their personal agendas, to the detriment of many and the continuing deaths of millions of Africans. The disappointing aspect, today, California naming anything to these two criminals.
I can’t wait to taste those glow-in-the-dark jalapenos. Finally, the perfect midnight snack.
I almost guarantee you any child that so much as get a sniffle, the parents will sue this school for ‘toxic waste sniffle’! This whole mess has lawsuit written all over it.
L
“Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is”…strangely hilarious and an odd working of metaphysical justice.
One shudders to think of the “science” these poor kids will be exposed to.
It really should be called the Carson-Gore Academy To Reverse The Enlightenment.
Toxic waste aside, aren’t schools supposed to educate instead of perpetuate ignorance? Carson-Gore and School shouldn’t even be in the same sentence much less name a place of education. Therefore Carson-Gore School is an oxymoron.
A silent spring break next year, to be sure.
The perfect illustration of what happens when your karma runs over your dogma.
Heh.
Peanuts. You know, when you’re state is $20 billion in the red, the thing to do is build a $578 million school! From WSJ:
Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History
Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy.
Makes Man/Bear/Pig’s dirty dirt look reasonable.
Why are we naming a school after a mass murderer, Rachel Carson? What’s next? Jeffrey Dahmer Elementary School?
Don’t they have to do all kinds of intense environmental studies before getting the proper permits to build anything? Did Gorebutt work the system? Did he get special favors? Was the process speeded up because it is for the great Nobel Prize Winning putz? They should never have actually named the darn thing until they were sure they could build there. Just another example of the horrific planning that progressives do. They don’t think past the nose on their faces. And there are always UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES with them. Completely UNEXPECTED. They are all morons…every single one of them.
Maybe I misunderstood. Is this a building that is already there, but they are just renaming it? I guess that wasn’t clear to me by reading the article.
happyscrapper#16,
This property was probably owned by gore and made ten times what it was worth to sell it to the school system.
L
So, was the building already there, or did they build a new one for Gore? That is what I am confused about. Sounds like it was an old building that they remodeled and re-named. Even so, an environmental study should have been done before any remodel. Shouldn’t it?
There’s so much wrong in this story… the part that strikes me is that “light industry” has been replaced with “Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences”.
In other words, useful and productive “light industry” replaced with an elaborately-named but otherwise useless government building.
There should be a law against naming any public facility after any living politician.
Obviously, someone failed to do a proper phase one site investigation and other geo-chemical/physical studies before they started construction. The remediation should not require excavating the entire site unless there are some really nasty chemicals there. If it is hydrocarbon contamination, such as gasoline or other fuels from storage tanks, a groundwater remediation and vapor extraction system should clean it up. If the excavations are not properly done, they can cause cross contamination and spread the problem. The evacuated soil should be either incinerated or land farmed.
happyscrapper#19,
From what I read, it is not real clear.
Whatever, it appears the site was not properly tested.
L
Oh, HELLLLL yeah! And it very likely WAS…sorta.
It is Kulhifornia…
AKA Chicken Little Academy?
or any dead wacko environmentalist that is directly responsible for the deaths of millions. MILLIONS of poor uneducated people around the world both past and present. Rachel Carson is/was a fraud. It’s been proven for years her junk science was just that “junk science”. This women is still killing people in Africa.
I obviously hate this woman with a passion for all the defenseless, innocent lives she has taken with ficticous soft bird egg science. May she rot in hell.
Coincidentally I started watching a program on NEGO last night when they stated how Rachel Carson findings saved a species of bird of from extinction…BS. NEGO is as liberal as all the Discovery channel programs. One can’t trust any of these networks to tell the truth anymore.
Beware of what you read and watch…1984 is just around the corner.
ooops…”bird’s soft egg science”
Gore is a toxic waste dump. To honor him with one is redundant.
Ahhh…such delicious irony!
For those of you who want to read an excellent book by a REAL scientist, I recommend Trashing The Planet by Dixie Lee Ray.
She destroys Carson, who is more to be pitied than hated (while I DO hate what she did). Carson exhibited the very common human urge to find SOMETHING…any damn thing…to blame her misfortunes on. She settled on the science of chemistry.
Sadly for us all, Obama HATES science, too, as does his very, very dangerous EPA head, Lisa Jackson.
True scientists do good research and have logical minds. Lisa Jackson has a rather skimpy bio to be head of EPA. She her only qualification seems to have been from being head of NJ’s EPA, which isn’t saying much. We all know how well Christy Todd Whitless did coming from NJ to lead federal EPA as well. Sorry, that’s 2 strikes.
Throw up a few massage tables and a proper shrine for algore would be complete!
To quote from the pigeons in Bolt, “Oh, the irony!”
Jake
lol. oh sure, have to say no risk to keep the funding.
And somehow, the lawyers will find a way to blame it on the gov’t so the taxpayers will be held liable.
Ain’t socialism wonnerful?
Hey, they held their noses and chose the lesser of two evils. Turns out that the alternative was to name the school after card-carrying communist Pete Seeger.
Just like politics. There are no good choices. It’s the Democrat or the Other Democrat. Everyone else is “flawed”, “nutty” or “unqualified”.
Hard to accept but we voted our way into this mess and we are still listening to the wrong people for the most part.
Gee I wonder if the NEA will allow its teachers to be gardeners.
As to the contamination, I am wondering where the hell the pre-contract testing of the soil was? A Phase I environmental audit would have easily disclosed the contamination, and school children, and their parents would not have to worry. For $75 million, somebody’s lawyer sure crapped the bed.
As far as naming this school after Carson and Gore, does it get more sickening? As Doug pointed out, Carson was the driving force behind the ban on DDT that did in fact cost millions of lives. Thus she shares wonderful company with Pol Pot and Stalin. And Gore, the bloated gasbag that he is, should be on a plaque in the Hypocrite Hall of Fame. I was watching something called the “Mind of Manson” last night. Manson went on several rants about global warming and society’s destruction of the environment (in a 1986 interview). I really had to laugh and wonder if it is a source of pride for Gore, and other eco-warriors that they share the same rabid belief that man is a parasite on the earth, as does citizen Manson. Cant make this stuff up.
I wonder if this wonderful institution of lower learning will have it’s own Abortion/Unplanned Parenthood Clinic on campus? Perhaps the clinic will be located in the Barack H. Obama wing, just past the HHS booth that doles out free condoms, and instructional videos.
700 miles from Miami, Haiti suffers her little children and elder folk to die horrible deaths that can be prevented. Hey, but why care about children and elder folk in Haiti when a bird can be saved from extinction – maybe.
I’d like to know what it was they found that they are calling toxic. Did someone break a mercury thermometer back in the 50′s? Perhaps it was a bottle of grecian formula (which contains lead). Being Kalifornia it could be something as dangerous as a twinkie.
And the beat goes on… The kookery never ends with these folks. Maybe Man-Bear-Pig left some toxic waste at the site after one of his nightly environmental sojurns.
I find it interesting how many people want to name schools after progressives who don’t deserve it. Shortly after Obama was elected, an elementary school was named after him. They didn’t even know what kind of POTUS he would turn out to be. I bet they will change the name of that school some time in the future, after Obama has been indicted!
And just where did they put all of this contaminated dirt that they excavated?
….known to the State of California to cause Cancer.
…if eaten by the truckload.
Another of my pet peeves. Let little black babies die from (preventable) Malaria based on junk science. But Conservatives are the racists. If all those kids were dying on the upper east side of Manahattan, NY would be fogged tomorrow.
Actually, that would be named the Jeffrey Dahmer Academy of Culinary Sciences
Name one ‘individual’ connected to one missing ‘harm’.
This isn’t really ironic – rather, it is exceptionally PC, and painfully honest.
Seriously. I think I’d just about fall over if someone ever established a Norman Borlaug High School. That of course will never happen, because he was a mass life saver.
Bwahaaa, sorry, I can’t stop laughing. What could be more appropriate? I’m dyin’ over here….