According to the Panel convened by Texas health officials the issue of the polluted San Jacinto River is not of great importance due to the statement provided on the Houston chronicle “Panel says ‘no’ to more San Jacinto River cancer studies.” In this article it clearly states that the panel will make no further investigations or tests to the issue because according to them there are not enough cases to make it a big deal. I believe that the panel is wrong for doing this because what they are basically saying is that in order for them to give any importance to this topic there has to be more cases of children with cancer. The affected area with an abnormally higher rate than normal of children with cancer is East Harris County.
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Yes, the foundation did do things to lower the chances for people to get cancer but this proves that they had some idea or hunch about the waste spilling into the river that was causing children to obtain cancer. But the things they did didn’t make the people of the town feel any safer than before when they had a theory of their home river being polluted for example one of the few precautions they took was to put up signs saying things like “no fishing.” None of these things moved the company causing the pollution out of the state or just completely shut it down because it wasn’t certain that there were pollutants actually inhabiting the river so there was nothing they could have done in order to further please the people of east Harris County. The association created to protect citizens from pollutants did investigate and practice certain tests on the river water but after while of not finding anything linked to the above normal cancer rate they now decide to shut the whole thing down and completely ignore the fact that this river does indeed have something that is not safe for the population to be close to but since there are not enough cancer incidents they are going to stop founding the tests and investigations on the San Jacinto River. In 2011, word spread when Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan sued three major corporations for polluting the San Jacinto River: International Paper, Waste Management of Texas and McGinnes Industrial Maintenance Corporation. These corporations had most of the blame to the pollution of the river. Not only are these corporations completely ignoring the fact these pollutants and chemicals are killing our people and is not killing them then partially destroying their lives, but the only reason they want to stop funding the program is not only because the mere fact that there aren’t enough cases of cancer but because the more tests they
Yes, the foundation did do things to lower the chances for people to get cancer but this proves that they had some idea or hunch about the waste spilling into the river that was causing children to obtain cancer. But the things they did didn’t make the people of the town feel any safer than before when they had a theory of their home river being polluted for example one of the few precautions they took was to put up signs saying things like “no fishing.” None of these things moved the company causing the pollution out of the state or just completely shut it down because it wasn’t certain that there were pollutants actually inhabiting the river so there was nothing they could have done in order to further please the people of east Harris County. The association created to protect citizens from pollutants did investigate and practice certain tests on the river water but after while of not finding anything linked to the above normal cancer rate they now decide to shut the whole thing down and completely ignore the fact that this river does indeed have something that is not safe for the population to be close to but since there are not enough cancer incidents they are going to stop founding the tests and investigations on the San Jacinto River. In 2011, word spread when Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan sued three major corporations for polluting the San Jacinto River: International Paper, Waste Management of Texas and McGinnes Industrial Maintenance Corporation. These corporations had most of the blame to the pollution of the river. Not only are these corporations completely ignoring the fact these pollutants and chemicals are killing our people and is not killing them then partially destroying their lives, but the only reason they want to stop funding the program is not only because the mere fact that there aren’t enough cases of cancer but because the more tests they