Now I’m not really for, or against, the proposed Tires-For-Energy Plant.  I’ve read a lot of the information about its pros and cons, and still can’t make a decision on it.  However, I get the feeling that most people just don’t want it anywhere near “their backyard”.  I can understand this,  just remember that it does not always work out for the better.

The residents of Plainfield Township, near Wind Gap PA, protested a proposed Wal-Mart (well, you know those Wal-Hitler-Marts hurt the little man!).  From the Allentown Morning Call:

Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.

The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he’d wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ”What could be worse than Wal-Mart?”

Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he’s gotten an answer: RPM Recycling — the metal-shredding plant on the same land — causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.

All this has led to a series of complaints about the recycling plant that have been forwarded to the Township Zoning officer, who says:

What that leaves is a Wind Gap community angry with RPM. And, Knecht said, a no-win situation for Plainfield.

”When retail wanted in there, people said ‘no’ because they wanted industry,” Knecht said. ”Now industry is in there and they’re not happy. We’re darned if we do and darned if we don’t.”

What other Pennsylvania town does this sound like?  Click here for the answer! Just some food for thought on a Thursday!