[PRCo] Re: Steeler Stuff In Cleveland

[Schneider Fred]

And the rest burnt off when the river caught fire.   Hee Hee Hee Hee  
Hee.
By the way, Herb, ALCOA isn't as strong as you claim.   There was a  
story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer less than three weeks ago about  
layoffs at the Cleveland plant.

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Alcoa Cuts 13,500 Jobs, Shuts Some Operations 100 Workers Here Will  
Be Dismissed
01/07/2009
But to the relief of most of the 1,250 employees at Alcoa's Forged  
and Cast Products facility in Cleveland, the operations here will  
remain mostly intact. Still, managers today will end the jobs of 100  
workers, 50 salaried and 50 hourly, said...
- Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) : Read More



On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ken and Tracie
> <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>wrote:
>> I've read reports that the poisonous muck is concealed under  
>> twenty five to
>> thirty years of cleaner sediment. Any dredging exposes and stirs  
>> up the
>> layers of poisonous sediments and it would kill surrounding marine  
>> life.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> Not true. Lake Erie is clean and clear again. Dredging goes on  
>> constantly
> inside the sea wall to keep the harbor deep enough for all the  
> ocean going
> ships going in and out. Also the Cuyahoga River is open to ocean  
> going ships
> as far South as Clark Avenue and open to lake freighter ships as  
> far South
> as Harvard Avenue. This requires constant dredging. Enough "bottom  
> material"
> was probably removed in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s to remove the bad  
> stuff. The
> main industry along the river is steel (9 works) and aluminum  
> (three works).
> Arcelor-Mittal runs all 7 of its works at 100% capacity and does  
> not pollute
> as does Charter Steel with its 2 works running three shifts per  
> day. Alcoa
> Aluminum has three works (all running at 100% capacity) along the  
> upper area
> of the Cuyahoga and does not pollute. These factories are monitored  
> by the
> local and Federal governments. So for now at least everything is  
> going good.
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
>
>
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