«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I
want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is
cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our
water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.
If the oil industry
wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our
water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking
supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to
clean up.