Real Environmentalism

I received an e-mail from Fight Global Warming, an environmentalist group asking me to put a link on my site to videos such as this.

A note to those who think because my site is titled as it is that I am an environmentalist, you would be partially correct. You see, I am a true environmentalist, and a capitalist one at that. My company is the one out there cleaning up 15,000 tons of PCB contaminated soil or cleaning up a gasoline spill. I make contaminated areas less contaminated or clean enough to reuse. That is true environmentalism.

To those of you who fancy yourselves environmentalists because you spout rhetoric from the Earth Liberation Front or recycle a few cans, you are in the wrong place. I'm a huge supporter of strict environmental regulation with regard to serious environmental concerns such as dioxin or chrome contamination. That said, I have no time for global warming crusades.

Lastly, when a company makes an effort to clean up their messes (and American companies are the most likely to do so as opposed to Europeans), perhaps you will not continue to demand they pay more and more money dealing with your frivolous lawsuits, that money is probably tagged for other remedial activities that will not occur because you've forced them to spend it on said lawsuit. Also, if you see my company or one like it out there digging up contaminated dirt, don't curse or blame me. I didn't spill whatever we're cleaning up, I'm just the contractor making your neighborhood more environmentally safe.

Update: Will at Commonwelath Conservative wonders why more bloggers don't blog about environmental issues. My response is that I do from time to time. However, there's much more important things to discuss and also it's what my company does so even though I can quote EPA, DOT or OSHA regulations from memory, I don't want to discuss them in the few hours I have to blog.