Monsters
Unjust legacy is an article by Saritha Ramakrishna who explores how a community that has been affected by injustices of environmental issues seeks to reverse decades of environmental discrimination. The point of coming up with yet another project in the city seem to impact negatively to the rest of Eastern Boston. It should be noted that the area is very congested with harmful industries that have been adversely affecting the environment. As such, therefore, building power generation plan in the area according to the residents would make their life more difficult. In the story, Paul Kozak is seen standing before the panel holding a fish which probably has been died as a result of pollution. Kozak is demonstrating in the public process how industries have significantly impacted on the living things in the area.
The employees of Evercource holding such public participation a time when the project was already approved is meaningless to the residents. From the story, the board approved the project early in 2017, after having challenged in court Mr Louis Silvestro I the owner of a fish processing plant. Therefore, building such a project in an already polluted area was a form of injustice the local people. The main reason the residents were so opposed to the project was that it was pound to cause effects to humanity. The power station was to cause flooding in the area, meaning residents who had lived there had to find an alternative place to relocate. Secondly, the city was also prone to the storm, meaning water reservoir would not hold water as more would spill off to the surrounding area, thus affecting locals. In essence, the power station is a monster that comes to destroy lives of the local who are already hard-pressed with other industrial effluents in the Eastern Boston.