Miami Dade County's most notorious city for UP-TO-NO-GOOD, Homestead, is being slated for...wait for it...an eco-friendly steel mill. Julio Gimenez, the County Mayor's son, is helping pitch this insane area and other family members have been lobbying for it. The Trump-like family ties on this project forced Gimenez to recuse himself. They, the County and the Steel people, want to put this Steel Mill on County land (our land) by the military airport in Homestead: or as most of us in the know call it Hudstead.
The company, Ecosteel wants 124 acres for this eco-steel plant (Oxymoron to the max).
Okay how crazy does this sound? I am astounded by this idea that apparently as been around for awhile, kept under tight wraps from the public. The owner said if he doesn't get the land here he will go to another State and build his plant. I say, don't threaten us Mr. Steel guy. By all means, go to another State. And while you're at it take all the Gimenez children that are involved with this really crazy idea of spewing heavy metals into our cleanish air and falling into Biscayne Bay.
They do aim to be environmentally friendly, but from what I read they are not there yet:
Climate-damaging smelting gases, such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane, are produced in many parts of a steel mill. After steel production, these gases are burned in power plants to generate electricity. But the catch is that this process also generates CO2 emissions. Moreover, when excess wind and solar power are produced, it is not possible to sell the resulting electricity to the grid. The approach being pursued by the Carbon2Chem project partners is therefore not to incinerate the smelting gases, but to convert them into in reusable materials for the chemical industry.
Florida has to decide what it is. does it want to be the rust belt? Does it want to be a tourist destination? Does it want to have oil rigs off their coast? Does it want to keep the agriculture the sub-tropical Homestead area is known for? Get a grip people, start telling the County what you want because if you don't, something will get shoved down your throat and I guarantee it won't be what you want: A designer $240 Million, Steel Mill on your TAXPAYER OWNED LAND producing 1,000 tons of steel a day, for instance.
The Miami Herald reported on this on Sunday:
"A lot of companies try to say they're green, that they're environmentally friendly," said Elizabeth Bonnell, chair of the Miami chapter of the Sierra Club. "Later on, people are left to have to clean up after the mistakes of the company. We're pretty concerned."
In other Hudstead news, the former Mayor, Steve Bateman is being sentenced today for being found guilty for Corruption.
13 comments:
Possibly the only dumber idea was the plan to build an oil refinery in Biscayne Bay a few decades ago.
Lobbyists, connected people see free land and will promise anything to get it, leaving the taxpayer the ecological messes and the bills.
Great, seems like a good idea especially with two nuclear reactors already there.
Is it ideology and belief that prevents right wingers like Gimenez and family from serving county residents by expanding public transportation?
This belongs in Medely in an industrial part of town. Except the guy wants free land. Why?
I'd guess that Bateman crony and one of the many on the take council people serving Hudstead, Maldonado, is fully supporting the steel plant. Anywhere there's money to be made or the promise of a job in the future you'll find him lurking. Remember his sugar daddy is none other than Wayne Rosen close friends with the mayor.
Something to consider. FPL wants to build 2 new reactors at rate payer expense through the early cost recovery scheme. The problem is that the regional demand doesn't support building the new reactors. This project with its electrically powered furnaces. So they get free (or subsidized) county land and FPL gets a big customer.
Wayne Rosen gave $15,000 to Porter for his Agriculture Commission run. The same Wayne Rosen who turned potato fields into cement and a golf course into a serpent center.
These are the great grifters of HUDSTEAD.
Gee, what a relief for a minute I thought Gimenez was sending the Kendall Drive and Krome child predators to Homestead. Does everyone remember when Regalado sent some of his "best" to Homestead?
Great post.
And who knows how much coal is hidden in the muck!!
The convicted felon is using people associated with with his new church to reduce his sentence. He has a hearing next week. They think Bateman has changed, everyone is supposed to forget he corrupted city government. He used his elected office to profit from it, the jury convicted him, but he thinks he should be free. This is not remorse. This is being the same selfish and corrupt individual he always was.
The headline should be : They Want To Build A Steel Mill NEAR Homestead On COUNTY OWNED Land Currently Zoned as Agriculture.
This project is NOT in Homestead. Even our spineless, corrupt and witless elected officials here in HUDstead know better than to pursue this. Had Alex Penelas and his stooge Steve Shiver prevailed years ago on the re use of the base, this wold now be a slam dunk. Remember that as Penelas seems to be casting about for relevancy as another run for County office may be in the works.
Why not put the steel plant where the workers and infrastructure for steel already exists? In the north east?
In the same reasoning, why not put the people and the mall where the infrastructure already exists? Infill development?
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