Put your money on Covanta, not elite protesters
To the Times:
Reading the article on the anti-Covanta “diein” which occurred at the Delco Government Building last Wednesday, left me bewildered. When looking at any map where you can easily find the site of the Covanta plant, you will notice that the plant in nestled in the tiny corner of Chester almost at the borderline of Trainer. My bewilderment stemmed from the lack of people from Trainer in the demonstration. Why is that? Do not the ill effects of the Covanta plant affect them more than most of the inhabitants of Chester? Or do the laws of physics have a mystifying property to drift only towards the majority of Black and brown residents of Chester?
Another thing that was striking was the participation of students from Swarthmore College. Were there any participants from Delaware County Community College? You can Google the tuition for Swarthmore College and find that in 2019 that tidy sum came to over $54,000 per year. You, who are reading this letter to the editor, should be asking yourselves the same questions. Do the demonstrators speak for you, or do they speak for an elite group whose actions want to make your lives more difficult and expensive? Covanta’s waste to energy technology might stand some improvement but for my money they offer a solution which not only takes care of a significant
trash problem and provides income to cashstrapped Chester, the technology also feeds electricity back into the grid. This is technology which the Europeans have been using for years in over 400 locations. One organizer offered her solution to our trash problem. It was “charge all residents across the board $200 a bag for trash”. Well, that’s one place to put your money. I’ll put my money on Covanta and you should too.