FACES Organization To Hold Rally Before Hearing on General Chemical

The Framingham Board of Health will hold its third public hearing on General Chemical Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7; FACES, a grassroots community organization, will hold a rally against General Chemical at 6:30 p.m.

The Framingham Action Coalition for Environmental Safety (FACES), a community group focused on addressing the enormous health and environmental dangers posed by General Chemical, is hosting a community rally before the third Framingham Board of Health hearing concerning General Chemical’s site assignment at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night, Dec. 15. Parents, children, neighbors, and local elected officials will be present at the rally. Also present will be Art Kreiger and Nina Pickering Cook from Anderson & Kreiger, a Boston-based law firm that has agreed to represent members of FACES pro bono.  "Anderson & Kreiger gladly agreed to represent members of FACES regarding their concerns about the environmental and public health impacts of basically …

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Jim Rizoli

11:14 pm on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

How long are they going to drag this out? The whole area over there is a huge toxic dump! The cost to clean it up will be a never ending pit of money. I'm not against the company doing that type of work it just shouldn't be done so close to families. General Chemical should never been put there, and the fact that the town allowed it to exist there in a residential area is a beyond human thinking…   more ›

FACES Group Calls for Health Board to Clean Up, Close Down General Chemical

FACES (the Framingham Action Coalition for Environmental Safety), a group formed by a handful of South Framingham residents, is now calling for the Framingham Board of Health to take action against General Chemical.

Press release from the FACES organization: Before the second Framingham Board of Health hearing concerning General Chemical tomorrow, Nov. 3, a growing number of organizations, churches and individuals have come together to urge action against the hazardous waste transfer station.     FACES (the Framingham Action Coalition for Environmental Safety), a group initially formed by a handful of South Framingham residents, has expanded its reach far beyond the immediate neighborhood.  In addition to more than 50 individuals, 13 groups have signed on as supporters of FACES’ effort to clean up and close down General Chemical.  Supporting organizations include Toxics Action Center, Conservation Law Foundation, MassCOSH, the Framingham Coalition, …

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Brazilians Worried, Apathetic About Toxic Contamination in Neighborhood

Only about a dozen parents attended a Framingham Board of Health meeting about a chemical plant, that is located next door to their child's elementary school. Other parents are very concerned.

The emotions of parents of whose children attend Woodrow Wilson Elementary School range from apathetic to panic, when it comes to the school's neighbor General Chemical. Rosana Souza, a Brazilian mother of a third grader at Wilson Elementary School, speaks little English. “I was told that the whole school was contaminated. I called a teacher and she told me if that were the case, she wouldn’t be working there,” said Souza in Portuguese. Monday night at a hearing attended by more than 100 people Framingham Health Director Ethan Mascoop restated the school is safe. The air quality is tested very regularly, he added. Mascoop, who spoke for over an hour at Monday night's Board of Health hearing,  presented a series of safety violations he …

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Susan Petroni

9:14 am on Tuesday, September 27, 2011

I did not touch any post at 2 a.m. in the morning. I have to agree with Scott.   more ›

General Chemical Hearing Could Last Months

The first in a series of Board of Health hearings on General Chemical got underway last night with Framingham's Director of Health reporting that there could be safety and health threatening issues at the site, which is adjacent to Woodrow Wilson School.

South Framingham residents gathered at Woodrow Wilson Elementay School Monday night to hear they will not get a quick resolution to possible environmental contamination from a chemical waste transfer station facility in their neighborhood. The Framingham Board of Health held the first of a series of site assignment public hearings on whether General Chemical is an appropriate occupant of the site off Leland Street. In opening remarks, Board of Health Chair Michael Hugo said the evening was the first of “several” hearings, with the next one scheduled for Nov. 3. The facility, General Chemical, is next to Wilson elementary school and in a mostly residential section of Leland Street. Residents are concerned about soil and water contamination …

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Empresa que estoca lixo tóxico ameaça saúde de brasileiros

Autoridades realizam hoje audiência pública que pode definir o fechamento da General Chemical Corporation, em Framingham.

Sábado à noite o ativista Sidney Faust anda pela rua Weld Street, no Sul de Framingham, por um condomínio com alta concentração de brasileiros. Ele distribui panfletos em português e inglês, que falam sobre materais químicos tóxicos que são armazenados pela General Chemical Corporation, empresa que fica localizada ao lado da escola Woodrow Wilson Elementary School. “As pessoas aqui dizem ‘estamos nos EUA, você não acha que uma agência do governo iria cuidar de uma situação como esta?’ disse Faust. Em audiências públicas realizadas em 2008 e 2010, apenas um punhado de famílias brasileiras participaram. Mais de 75% dos estudantes da escola são brasileiros. Este descrédito dos brasileiros, que Faust explica que é causado por uma confiança nas…

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