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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council December 2, 1981, Page 5 a bad day you can still recognize the haze. There are fish in the Houston ship channel and shrimp, and people are eating what they catch out of there,. There are people swimming and skiing at Sylvan Beach, and the massive fish kills that dotted the area in 1967-68 through '72 don't exist any more. T was very unhappy when the PCB plant was allowed in Deer Park, and I would be even more unhappy if the chemical dump is allowed to come into La Porte. I think it is a shame that some of the industries in our area have forgotten what we fought for back in '67 through '72. The fact that they have forgotten does not reflect the desires and will of the people of the community. We haven't forgotten and we will continue to work for a livable atmosphere and a livable water quality. T guess that's about the end of my speech. I'll put my soap box up until next time, but if this doesn't succeed in killing the situation very quickly as far as the chemical dump is concerned, I may have more to say later. Meza: It is an ongoing fight, Gus, as you well know. It keeps a lot of us busy going to and fro to these different meetings • to oppose the issuance of permits for these things. Faris: At San Jacinto College we had 183 people on a committee that did nothing but work on air pollution. It was a student committee and we were pretty well recognized by our community as knowing what we were talking about when we arrived on the scene. We, in fact, when we found out that the bureaucracy wouldn't listen to us all the time, elected a couple of legis- lators to make sure they would listen. And maybe that's what it's going to take. Maybe we need to elect some new legislators who will listen to our problems and will remember the fight we put up once before. Simons: I concur with John and Gus, but it is going to take the citizens and other organizations throughout the City that has membership to contact these people and let them know exactly how we feel. Just the Council alone won't get it done. They want to know how the whole community feels. A 20 cent stamp and a handwritten letter will carry more weight than all our resolutions. They want to hear from the public. Faris: I do want to point out that there are companies that remember the fight and are good citizens. It is a shame there are those that are not. • Skelton: Well, I'd certainly like to echo my same thoughts along those lines, and would like to encourage everyone to get