Killing the City of Coatesville RDA is back. Which environmental racism company waits in the wings?

Some Coatesville City Council members are talking about scrapping the RDA. 

To me that means some company specializing in putting toxin-spewing factories in Black neighborhoods has found gullible Black politicians in Coatesville with their hands open. 

The former G.O. Carlson Steel Company land dividing Coatesville in half has a business/commercial zoning OVERLAY. 
UNDERNEATH IT’S STILL ZONED HEAVY INDUSTRY. 
Every company that builds toxic plants in failing Black towns has Coatesville in its sights.

Heavy industry companies making toxic products constantly look for black towns to locate new plants. They know Whites will not allow their toxic plants in their neighborhoods. Coatesville has been a target since the G.O. Carlson property was sold to the City of Coatesville RDA. 

If the "Bloc of Four" Coatesville City Council would have been successful in scrapping the RDA, ownership of the "Flats" would have transferred to the City of Coatesville. The City of Coatesville is required by law to sell to the highest bidder, and FPL has very deep pockets. there would be a Florida Power & Light gas fired electric generation station on the  "Flats" and Jim DePetris would never have considered building his "Gateway Redevelopment Project". 

In fact an industrial plant spewing toxic chemicals in the center of town would kill any possibility for redeveloping Coatesville.

So far we have seen these proposals for the "Flats" the former G.O. Carlson Steel Company property now owned by the City of Coatesville Redevelopment Authority:

• A gas fired electric generation plant. 
• A proppant plant (part of the toxic mix of chemicals injected into gas fracking wells) 
• And a trash to steam plant. 

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Mr. Morton, “It’s got to go somewhere.”It just happens that they want a fracking chemical plant in a black neighborhood.

I don't know which company specializing in environmental racism is waiting in the wings, but if the RDA is disbanded the City of Coatesville is required by law to sell to the highest bidder. FPL is now a subsidiary of  NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE)


Would Coatesville have been called "CrakPowerVille"?

Harry Walker and Andrew Lehr planned with Florida Power & Light to build a gas fired electric generation plant. It would sell electricity over Exelon power lines by way of a "Coatesville Power Authority". I would bet that Walker and Lehr would be members of the "Coatesvile Power Authority" that would sell electricity at millions of dollars per hour. 

Coatesville RDA Joe DiSciullo, “I will say this, as far as the negotiations with the power company; I WAS STUNNED TO FIND OUT THAT THE CITY SOLICITOR AND MR. WALKER HAD BEEN TALKING TO THE POWER COMPANY AND MR. O’DONNEL WAS NOT INVITED TO TAKE PART.  THAT WAS EYE OPENING TO ME!”

Allegedly Andrew Lehr blurted out “we can’t do that” when the RDA wanted to proceed with Robert McNeil and Penguin Industries offer to buy the Flats. Lehr allegedly told the RDA in executive session that Walker and he were in serious negotiations with the power plant executives and that revealing it in public would be a breach of confidence.

I believe that those negotiations were blatantly illegal and that Lehr and Walker had no authority to make a deal in secret with RDA property.

Mr. Walker is correct in stating that, "I did not talk to power company officials in my office." The alleged discussions with power companies took place at the "Whip Tavern in Southern Chester County". 

The money in a community power generation plant is not from the taxes they would pay. Tax benefits to communities from these power plants are negligible. The real money flows through a public / private power authority that must be formed so that the power company can sell electricity on their competitors lines.

Would Tim Hennessey have been a member of something that may have been called "The Coatesville Power Authority" along with Harry Walker, Andrew Lehr and Al Baxter.

SEE:

CrakPowerVille Did PA Rep. Hennessey have a role in the Coatesville Power Plant Plan?

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THE FLATS REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (FRD) IS A ZONING OVERLAY OVER HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ZONING: