Our
Lady of the Incinerator, the spire of the former St. Stanislaus
Cathedral parallels the stack of the world's largest incinerator.
St.
Stanislaus
The
1970's brought oil price shocks that wreaked havoc on a complacent
Detroit automobile industry and economy.
A rush
to move to alternate forms of energy combined with a need to
solve solid waste disposal problems, led to the proposal to
build a trash-to-energy incinerator.
Over
much protest, the world's largest trash incinerator was built
in the heart of Detroit. Its smoke pattern fell largely
on a declining neighborhood just to the east accelerating the
neighborhood's decay.
