Here's a story of a fine corporate community citizen; According to the New Jersey Attorney General, the Crowne Plaze hotel in Secaucus was dumping raw sewage from the hotel into the Hackensack River via a special pipe system the hotel staff had set up. Hackensack Riverkeeper Bill Sheehan, one of the heroes of this story (the other being the citizen who stopped Sheehan ont he street and told him of the nefarious piping), found out that the Crowne Plaza employed a underground tunnel system in which raw sewage leaking from hotel pipes was flushed into the river.
According to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram:
"...hotel staff rigged a pump in a grate-covered pit beside the hotel to run the sewage-laced wastewater through a hose and across a grassy area to the riverbank."
Assholes.
Of course the Crowne Plaza is simply shocked by the news. They claim they had no idea the pipes carrying the sewage from their place to the river existed. They issued the boilerplate 'no way--we simply can't believe this since we're such upstanding community citizens' load of legalese crap. They even had the guts to trot out the "but but *sniff* if we're forced to pay the huge fines that could come down we're not sure if we could continue to employ the 200 Hudson County residents we do now" teary-eyed self pity.
Again, assholes.
Go get 'em Anne Milgram and thank you Bill Sheehan, you both are doing the public proud on this one.
Close them down for a month or so as a part of their fine and maybe they will learn how not to break the law.
ReplyDeleteI'm willing to bet the "We had no idea part" gets revised or they admit to no wrongdoing while agreeing to pay a huge fine which, why would you do that if you're not guilty?
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