Her sentiment was echoed repeatedly last night at a hastily called community meeting that drew nearly 300 residents opposed to the plan to locate the trash facility at the South Philadelphia site.
Goode, who shelved the proposal a year ago because of earlier neighborhood opposition, resurrected the high-tech incinerator proposal during a speech on Saturday, saying it was the only solution to Philadelphia's growing problems with trash disposal.
The plant would burn 75 percent of the city's trash. Its byproducts, steam and electricity, would be sold to the Navy Yard and the Philadelphia Electric Co.
Goode returned to the proposal after deciding that his plans for other recycling plants or a trash-to-steam plant in Berks County weren't feasible.
South Philadelphia residents have opposed the shipyard plant proposal on the grounds it would create more air pollution and generate more unwanted truck traffic.
Last night, residents lashed out at City Hall, contending their neighborhood has been burdened by city leaders who allowed the airport, two stadiums, a sewage plant, the Walt Whitman Bridge, two expressways and two oil refineries to be built in the area of South Philadelphia.
Their consensus was that Goode's trash-to-steam plant would be a disaster for their neighborhood.
The 300 people crammed into a small community auditorium at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Mount Sinai-Daroff Division, for what was billed as the first in a series of protests. (A hospital spokesman said the center has not taken a position on the project.)
Some wore surgical masks to protest possible air pollution from a trash-to- steam plant. Others held up placards with such slogans as "Trash to Cancer," alluding to earlier reports of possible cancer-causing smokestack emissions from the proposed trash incinerator.
