POV 2
“Kimberley Wasserman, LVEJO’s Executive Director and a longtime resident of Little Village, offers a different perspective, arguing that since Midwest Generation does not ‘have a contract with the city or the state to provide electricity to us, all of [the] electricity [from Crawford and Fisk] is sold on the open market. And so that’s a huge problem for us, because these [plants] are basically cash cows for Midwest Generation. ... So we suffer the brunt in order for this company to make money’ ("Coal Blooded Putting Profits Before People").”
Kimberly is an environmental justice activist and member of a community suffering from environmental racism. She is fully aware that power plants such as Crawford and Fisk, both owned by Midwest Generation which is a part of Edison, were purposely placed in low-income communities. Kimberly knows that these power plants emitted tons of toxins, which is why she took part in the charge that got both plants shut down recently. She also knows of all the affects that the toxins the power plants release have on people and that is why she works hard to get people involved in the environmental justice movement so that they become aware of the injustice that has been burdened upon them. Kimberly works so hard that she discovered that the Crawford and Fisk Power Plants pollute the air of Little Village and Pilsen yet it does not even produce energy for either of the communities. She is clearly angry at the fact that her people suffer from the contamination of their air just so that corporations like Edison can make money.
Kimberly is an environmental justice activist and member of a community suffering from environmental racism. She is fully aware that power plants such as Crawford and Fisk, both owned by Midwest Generation which is a part of Edison, were purposely placed in low-income communities. Kimberly knows that these power plants emitted tons of toxins, which is why she took part in the charge that got both plants shut down recently. She also knows of all the affects that the toxins the power plants release have on people and that is why she works hard to get people involved in the environmental justice movement so that they become aware of the injustice that has been burdened upon them. Kimberly works so hard that she discovered that the Crawford and Fisk Power Plants pollute the air of Little Village and Pilsen yet it does not even produce energy for either of the communities. She is clearly angry at the fact that her people suffer from the contamination of their air just so that corporations like Edison can make money.