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2 years ago I read an article by The Clean Air Task Force. It was titled "The Toll From Coal" and in it was a startling fact: Ocean City had the 14th highest mortality/morbidity in the USA from more than 500 communities downwind from a coal burning power plant.
I tried my best to alert the citizens about this health issue but the people were unreceptive to the message or the messenger.

Now the politicians and corporate shills are trying to convince the public that BL England must be supported in their gas pipeline scheme. 
"Natural Gas will be clean energy. Not Dirty energy like coal".

Suddenly the fight against coal is supposed to matter to the citizens who were indifferent when coal was being burned.

The SJ Gas & BL England corporate propaganda and their political enablers (Christie, Norcross, Sweeney,Palombo, Van Drew, Cape May Freeholders) are now in full throttle for bringing (Fracked) gas to burn 24/7/365 at BL England.

The health impact from gas emissions, Ultrafine Particles UFP's) is being censored from the public. As a Physician I have studied this extensively and I believe that if BL England converts from coal (burnt 30-40 days/year) to Gas ( burnt 365 days/yr) the morbidity/mortality risk to Ocean City will be higher than its 14th rank with coal. 

When the Clean Air Task Force publishes the danger to people in Ocean City from gas emissions real estate values will plummet. Sad to realize that our City government does not give a damn about anything but $$$$.

If BL England gets its way thanks to the indifference of Ocean City the people "will reap what they have allowed to be sown." Love Canal revisited in OC:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal .

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