Eramet’s response on cloud nothing unusual

I liked the way Eramet officials responded to the latest hard evidence of their air-polluting ways. You saw the story on the front page of The Marietta Times. The story referred to the photograph of a chemical yellow cloud that an Ohio EPA employee had taken at the Eramet plant. The EPA employee just happened to be in the area.

Eramet officials responded to the photo by stating that their records show that nothing unusual was going on at Eramet at the time of the cloud.

Well of course not; we know that! They don't have to tell us that the yellow cloud is nothing unusual. We know smelly yellow clouds are business as usual from Eramet. We smell them many weekends and many more nights.

Actually, Eramet's response reminded me of the old joke about the wife who caught her husband in bed with another woman. The wife screams and calls her husband a number of bad names. The husband replies, "This isn't what you think! Not at all! Are you going to believe me, or your lying eyes?"

Sorry, Eramet. I have to believe my eyes - and especially my nose!

L.P. McGovern

Williamstown