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So, it is finally being admitted that it was all about the pollution credits.  That is what the members of Stop the VET have been saying all along! 

The question now is: Will Mayor Abramson do anything about the APCD Director, Art Williams.  Williams submitted a plan that he knew of should have known was unacceptable to the EPA to end VET.  Williams's utter contempt for the "will of the people" is completely unacceptable and he has cost the people of Jefferson County far too much in money and health to be allowed continue.  Mr. Williams should turn in his keys to the APCD office and the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Cabinet should take over the operation of the APCD duties, just like they do in ALL OTHER 119 counties in Kentucky.  There should be a complete investigation and audit of the APCD office while Williams has been in charge.

You may remember that Williams had the utter gall to write former Gov. Patton an 8 page letter asking him ("on behalf of Jefferson County" no less) to veto HB618 which had overwhelming support from the people of Jefferson County, the Kentucky Senate and passed by the Kentucky House by a margin of 89-7.  Mr. Williams letter represented the extreme contempt Mr. Williams and his supporters have for the people of Jefferson County. 

His underhanded attempt to keep VET by submitting a revised SIP plan that would not be accepted by EPA and in turn made it possible for his long time friend Tom Fitzgerald to be successful in winning a federal lawsuit and allowing Federal Judge John Heyburn to order Jefferson County to reinstate VET.  This was all unnecessary, but it was Williams' last ditch effort to force VET testing against the "will of the people".  Williams should be held accountable and should personally pay for the damage!

Read the following article closely and you will understand that the "pollution credits" from VET testing have been confiscated from the people by the APCD without compensation for years and used to offset more commercial and industrial pollution.  The people should have been allowed to keep the credits and to use them however they wanted or to sell them.  The commercial and industrial polluters claim OWNERSHIP of THEIR credits and the APCD confiscates your VET credit to use as they please.

So, it (VET) has been about the credits all along and had very little if anything to do with improving air quality in Jefferson County.

JR

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/02/19ky/met-front-vet02190-6373.html

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