Erin Brockovich fires up Utah medical-waste incinerator opponents
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
North Salt Lake • Families campaigning to shut down medical-waste incinerator Stericycle were buoyed Saturday by a visit from environmentalist Erin Brockovich who is lending her star power and investigatory resources to their cause.
In every community, the seed of activism is deception, "a company that from its inception is not doing the right thing and is not keeping its promise to be a good neighbor," said Brockovich to a gymnasium full of hundreds of concerned citizens at a school within walking distance of the incinerator, Foxboro Elementary School.
But it’s through activism, and only through activism, that truths are revealed, wrongs are righted and communities are healed, she said. "This is your community, your air, your land, your water, your children, your health and welfare and you need to use your voices ... to make the necessary change to make your life better. It all begins with you."
Brockovich is a legal clerk-turned activist who, despite having no training as a lawyer, took on Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1993 for contaminating groundwater in Hinckley Calif. Her story was dramatized in a film starring Julia Roberts.
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Five years passed from the last time I was there and I was sad to hear that the Elementary School has since been closed and the principal passed away due to cancer.
Sad sad town. Great people, though.
