Tag: Amermin

LEDC’s New Prospective Tenant (Amermin) Already Sounding Like Slippery Weasels To Me. No Offense, Guys.

The LEDC sure does know how to pick em!

The last time I got vibes like this, it was from Eco-Strong. Which turned out to be a giant scam that collapsed suddenly when Mike Cour informed the City he would need to be handed $1.8 million dollars to do us the courtesy of starting a business here.

Amermin (horrible name!!) is sounding EXACTLY like Mike Cour did in the beginning: evasive and caught in a lie immediately.

There was an article posted online recently by Marissa Heffernan of E-Scrap News. In it, she informed us that Amermin (terrible name!) currently has “a main processing facility in Lampasas, Texas.”

I had never heard of this company and I’ve lived here 12 years. I also Googled “Amermin” and came up with NOTHING in Lampasas. So the next logical thing to do was email Heffernan and ask her where she got this information.

Heffernan was apparently too chickenshit to answer me (first red flag!) and instead ratted me out to Lauren Brown – who works for a third-party public relations firm! Very weird (second red flag).

Here is the email from Lauren:

Hi there,

Marissa Heffernan shared your email with me and I wanted to reach out. As you’re aware, Michael Gostkowski with AMERMIN will be presenting at the LEDC meeting this evening. He would be happy to answer any questions and meet you in person!

If you’re unable to attend, I can connect you and help set up a time for you to chat.

Thank you!

Lauren

Notice she STILL doesn’t answer the question I asked Marissa: where is this processing plant in Lampasas?? What is the address? So, I responded thusly:

So there IS no plant in Lampasas?  The article was incorrect?  

Lauren responded yet again:

Will you be at the event tonight? If not, please share your phone number.  

Yes, there is a facility at 20300 Ranch to Market Rd 963.

Ah! An address. Now we are getting somewhere. Of course, this address is not in Lampasas – it is in Bertram. Weird that the company, the public relations firm and the chick who wrote the article ALL got that wrong. They also don’t seem to be interested in correcting it. Third red flag!

So I just happened to be in the area on my way home from Georgetown yesterday and I checked the Amermin (awful name!!) ‘processing facility’…

As you can see, it’s essentially a junkyard. Bags of shit piled everywhere and a ton of rusty old drill bits. If the LEDC thinks something like this is going to “create lots of high-paying jobs,” they will be sorely disappointed. I don’t care how many shit sandwiches Gostosky fed to Talbert last night – this sounds like more pie-in-the-sky nonsense a la Mike Cour, Martin’s Rod and the rest of the pipe dreamers.

It’s located about 10 miles south of the Lampasas county line and 12 miles south of the “business park” itself. Now, why would they need a NEW junkyard so close to the OLD junkyard? Besides all the free shit Talbert will hand them, I mean.

Looking forward to seeing the minutes of last night’s LEDC meeting in about a month. Until then….

Did I Just Accidentally Uncover ANOTHER Eco-Turd In The LEDC Packets?

Well, this sure looks familiar. ANOTHER supposed “recycling” company that claims they ALREADY have a processing plant here!

Processor Takes Everything From E-scrap to Aerospace

The article is about “Amermin,” which might be the worst name for a company I have ever heard. Who knows how much of this article is actually true and how much is bullshit. Because one thing is sure – they do NOT have a “main processing facility” in Lampasas, Texas.

So if they are lying about THAT, what else are they lying about? This REALLY reminds me of the exact same way Eco-Strong unraveled back in 2020.

We see that in the packets for the LEDC meeting this Wednesday, the LEDC his scheduled a presentation by Michael Gostomsky of Amermin.

Here is Michael Gostomsky. He’s been in his current role with Amermin for all of about 5 weeks.

My immediate gut reaction is that this is another bullshit, small-time operation with a con man or two involved who are already talking about BIG plans when they have absolutely nothing really going on yet. They SURE as hell don’t have a “main processing facility” here in Lampasas yet. Sounds like a bullshit press release to try and raise funds.

So what’s the plan, LEDC? Bring in a “recycling processor” who promises dozens of jobs 5 years from now, but for now we need a big open space to dump our junk waiting to be “processed”? Oh, and we’ll pay the sorters a whopping $15/hr, which is pretty much what everyone else pays now – so you are basically violating the LEDC Prime Directive of “high-paying” jobs already.

Then again, the LEDC is extremely desperate to get ANYONE in there and Misti Talbert has all the negotiating skills of a quasi-retarded border collie.

Should be interesting.