The late environmentalist Lewis Green fought on behalf of clean air, clean water, and unspoiled land for the citizenry to enjoy in St. Louis and Missouri. A new book by authors Florence Shinkle and Patricia Tummons details many of his now historic fights to save our environment. It’s titled, “A Force For Nature.”
If you like Queeny Park, you’ll like the new book’s chapter on his 20-year fight to save that land for public use. If you are still laughing at the idea of building a publicly-funded stadium for Bill Bidwill in Missouri Bottoms’ mud, you’ll like the chapter on that political football.
Click Here to read my Column on Lewis Green from the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
Please comment. Provide your recollections from these battles. Comment on
future environmental battles.
Family Holidays are sometimes strained by political disagreements and arguments among relatives. On the Global Warming issue, there could certainly be discussion over the Copenhagen Summit which will take up plans to reduce carbon emissions. On the Global Warming issue, there could also be discussion on the so-called “Climategate” email revelations that purport to show scientists altering climate data to back concern about Global Warming.
The St. Louis County Council recently voted to rezone land adjacent to the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area at the Confluence to make way for a massive casino development.
The proposed development would destroy farmland and raise the level of nearly 400 acres of the current floodplain by 30 feet to accommodate a large casino, 8,000 parking spaces, and a golf course.
Missouri Coalition for the Environment says this development will introduce hundreds of thousands of gallons of runoff polluted with motor oil, fertilizers, and pesticides to sensitive wetland habitat and to the rivers.
Please post a comment:
How do you feel about the development? How do you feel about the vote cast by
your representative at the County Council? The Council Members who voted for the casino
rezoning were:
Michael O’Mara from North County Dist. 4
Hazel Erby from District 1
Steven Stenger from South County Dist. 6
Kathleen Burkett from District 2.
Colleen Wassinger, from Dist. 3, was absent.
Gregory Quinn, Dist. 7 and Barbara Fraser, Dist. 5 voted against the rezoning.
