Is this a case of environmental injustice

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Is this a case of environmental injustice?
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What is environmental justice? does that affect
my loved ones?
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These are excellent questions!
Lets deal with them one at a time.
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What is environmental injustice?
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness it
includes equitable access to a healthy
environment such as healthy air, clean water and
protected land.
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What is environmental justice?
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Environmental justice means each person,
regardless of situation or circumstance, has
equal opportunity for a safe and clean
environment, free from burden or bias
We are all entitled to cleaner air, healthier
water and better protected land for us, our
children and future generations.
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What is environmental injustice?
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KCPL and Hyde Park understand not bringing harm
to neighborhood health values. They halted
siting a substation in Hyde Park.
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What is environmental injustice?
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Environmental justice it means all people, have
equitable access to a healthy environment, free
of excessive stress that harms health and
well-being.
We are all entitled to cleaner air, healthier
water and better protected land for us, our
children and future generations.
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What is environmental injustice?
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Studies have proven that minority and low-income
communities are far more likely to have
inequitable access to a healthy environment.
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What is environmental injustice?
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The phrase environmental injustice was developed
to recognize those minority and low-income
communities that are bearing a heavy load of
pollution and industry.
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What is environmental injustice?
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As we have shown in other presentations (both
Stressor and the Toxics Children's Health slide
shows), the Westside is carrying a
disproportionate environmental burden in Kansas
City.
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What is environmental injustice?
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This is a matter of environmental injustice. We
cannot add yet another burden with the many
environmental and other stresses brought with
another electrical substation.
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Say NO! to another Westside substation
For our children
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Substations threaten our health safety.
Substations blight our neighborhood with ugliness.
Substations hurt our property values.
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For our children
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Say NO! to another Westside substation
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Who needs to hear YOU say
NO Substation on the Westside
Councilman Terry Riley Chairperson (816)
513-1629 gets email at schylon_clayton_at_kcmo.o
rg Councilwoman Cindy Circo Co-Chair (816)
513-1633 gets email at gina_boucher_at_kcmo.or
g Councilwoman Beth Gottstein (816)
513-1616 gets email at jim_giles_at_kcmo.org
Councilman Ed Ford [phone]
gets email at lisa_minardi_at_kcmo.org Councilman
John Sharp [phone]
gets email at araceli_gallegos_at_kcmo.org
KCMO Plans Zoning Cmte
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Who needs to hear YOU say
NO Substation on the Westside
Michael Chesser Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Great Plains Energy KCPL P.O. Box
418679 Kansas City, MO 64141-9679
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Who needs to hear YOU say
NO Substation on the Westside
Michael Merriman Chairman President Financial
Holding Company 300 W 11th St Kansas City,
MO 64105-1618
Thomas A. McDonnell Chief Executive Officer
President DST Systems Vince Dasta President DST
Realty 333 W. 11th Street Kansas City, MO 64106
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For our children
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Say NO! to another Westside substation
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