Our
Lady of the Incinerator, the spire of the former St. Stanislaus
Cathedral parallels the stack of the world's largest incinerator.
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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.
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