It never ceases to amaze me how much blame people place on others instead of taking responsibility for their own actions. If a woman burns her thighs with the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving, she blames the restaurant.
Now it appears a company salesperson involved in a car accident while making a sales call on his cell phone is blaming his employer. Apparently this salesperson is suing his employer because he was conducting company business when the accident occurred.
Renderers are often blamed for foul odors in the air – but usually it’s not a problem until development creeps up around and there’s someone, besides the renderer, to smell those odors. Then the residents and city blame the renderer for the odor.
So the renderer works hard at correcting the problem. But oftentimes that’s not enough.
But who is really to blame here? Sure, the renderer is creating the smell, but how long has the renderer been operating at that same location? Twenty years? Fifty? Oftentimes, it was long before anyone was nearby to smell it.
Chances are though you won’t hear city leaders or corporations who built up near the plant blame themselves for choosing to locate their businesses and homes next door to a rendering plant. They’ll continue to blame the renderer. Now it appears taxpayers are footing the bill for that blame.
In one Western state, the state legislature has approved a financial plan to help a city move a rendering plant out of town. The amount the state is footing for the relocation is an astronomical two million dollars, one million shy of what the city was asking for. The two million dollars from the state is matching funds the city has agreed to provide.
What would lead state and local politicians to earmark so much money to move a private company? Apparentally, more money.
According to one representative, a large corporation that built next to the rendering plant several years ago has “done much for the economy in creating jobs…but the odors hurt its efforts to attract people and work with clients.”
He went on to say that in order to put money into the tax coffers, government needs to help companies like the large corporation who is complaining.
Costs for moving the rendering plant is estimated at $7 million, so the city is looking for additional possibilities to fund the shortfall.
One possibility they’re not looking at, though, is taking responsibility for their own actions of approving the development around the rendering plant.
June 2001 Render