Misleading the public—again

Ms Tighe, I am sorry to hear of your medical emergency and hope that everything works out fine. However, I wish you would have given the whole truth in your response to my article. The truth is that you only met with Mr. Ted Staley in the lobby of the hotel they were staying at while here for Gov. Benigno R. Fitial’s inauguration. You met with him and briefly with Ms. Sandie Lenton for less than an hour. Mr. Staley is the chairman and co-managing director of Palingenesis Manufacturing and Ms. Lenton is managing director of same.

During that meeting at the hotel, you were handed the CD presentations on the system. But when offered the specific packets on all the testing and the certifications you stated and I quote, “I am not really interested” and then you dismissed them. So apparently you were not in search of the truth, but merely there to get enough information to write your misleading article. If you had bothered to view the video presentation and had taken the information packets you would have been more informed and been able to present this equipment and the system in its true light.

I don’t believe that you have an engineering background. Therefore, this is why I think you turned down the stats on the system. Secondly, you have never visited the plant in Manila, nor seen the equipment in full operation. Otherwise you would have been able to report that the system has in fact been running successfully for some 18 months after several years of testing and research. If you had taken the packets when offered to you and asked someone with a technical background about the specific testing and research and certifications you would have seen that the system does work and with absolute positive results. The palingenesis system does everything it states it can and it is by far a much better and more permanent, less expensive and much faster resolution to our huge waste disposal problems here on Saipan.

And lastly, regarding your seemingly flip attitude toward Saipan being a “guinea pig,” the only guinea pigs are the people who swim in our lagoon and surrounding beaches, including our tourists. They are constantly being exposed to pollutants in our waters and perhaps candidates for diseases such as E coli. The system of covering up the Puerto Rico dump with a tarp and monitoring its’ progress over the next 30 years will only allow these pollutants to continue to leach into the waters.

Again, Ms Tighe, I invite you to contact me and I will be more than happy to help you with your questions about Palingenesis.

Bob Emmett
Susupe, Saipan