tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51793047379235603382024-03-18T20:06:29.746-07:00Rep Reyes, House intelligence committee chair 2006 said news never supposed to see light of dayScroll to end: click web view.
Heather Mcmurray 's work exposing the poisoning of 1000 square miles around El Paso by Asarco smelter through what the EPA & US DOJ said was illegal burning of illegal hazardous/radioactive wastes 1991 to 1998. We have never been told what actinides are present from illegal Asarco actions(see 73 page 1998 conf. for settlement purposes only DOJ EPA Asarco doc,10/06 nytimes) see "Asarco secret document" Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-5497699171795765062024-03-18T12:34:00.003-07:002024-03-18T12:34:57.922-07:00Letter to mr puga site cleanup trustee<p> Copied to Hon. Rep Escobar</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Mr. Puga,</span></p><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">The website said to contact you because I am subscribed to el paso asarco cleanup site notifications but did not receive notifications.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">See news:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">https://elpasomatters.org/2024/03/17/trustee-of-former-asarco-site-still-sees-utep-as-ideal-buyer/<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">This article covers land sales and channel creation with black slag, but I was not notified through the site email.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am very concerned that you continue to say it is safe for development, when you know a respected utep geologist said that it was not. And, when you have never asked for the now public domain invoices listed in the now public domain but formerly "usdoj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes 73 page document".</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">We do not know the levels of many contaminants -- e.g. pcbs, dioxins, the "forever chemicals" like in fire fighting foam, and the beta radioactive particles reported by epa 1998 to be highest in the nation in el pado texas (water and air). I am sure there are many more dangerous chemicals not listed in the official chemicals with levels of concern (arsenic, lead, cadmium, etc).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">You must know in your heart it is wrong to sell the land. Such contaminated land should only be transferred into government hands. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both sites that handled same materials ( hayden az and east helena mt) (during or after)are now super fund sites. They are receiving more monies for cleanup while el paso tx yearns to sell off toxic land for a mere ten million. It is ludicrous.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-35617458510732058182024-03-18T12:08:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:11:05.533-07:00Who is arcadis<p> Arcadis.com</p><p><br /></p><p>"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: FSElliotPro, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: FSElliotPro, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">improving quality of life</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: FSElliotPro, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: FSElliotPro, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: FSElliotPro, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Yeah, right. Using 20 plus year old slag that releases 100% of its contaminants over a 100 years, so it can wash downriver.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">This year 2024 the EPWU says 50% of our drinking water will come from the rio grande.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Now who will eventually pay the $$$ to remove the contaminants from the water? Future generations. You may see a gradual rising (eventually sky high) of your storm water fee, because the contaminants will go there, into stormwater and the river. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The rich are already putting osmosis filters into their homes. Where do the filters go when full? Our landfills, which then may drain if not careful into our arroyos, to the river and thus our water.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">But we dont have to hold asarco responsible, right? EPA is toothless now, run by attorneys and contractors. The epa database has gotten rid of all my asarco foias, and incorrectly stated that the last (only one in their new database) had no response (it id, six searchable dvds.) The wa- d.c.- foia-attorney refuses to open the email showing him the actual response although he was cooperative over the phone 🙄🤔🤣</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">We all crave safety: a job, a home, education for the kids, good safe foods, retirement. We fail at times to speak up when these are affected at a slow pot boil (ie frog in a warming pan). </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">You all are in a slow pot boil.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">May God help us all because what they burned at asarco for a decade (more, imho) was worst of the bad, and after i got the 73 page document released thru nytimes and the el paso site shut down, they moved it to Hayden, arizona - - now a superfund (just like east helena mt, which received what el paso tx received/burned.)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">The cleanup trustee never looked at the invoices/contaminants listed in that nytimes revealed document. Those invoices are in the public domain because they are listed in the back of a now public document---- but, are still kept sealed. No journalist or attorney has ever gone after those.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">We do not know the level of following contaminants:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Pcbs</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Dioxins</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Forever chemicals used in firefighting foams</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Beta radioactive particles (reported by epa to be highest in the usa in 1998 El Paso TX)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">And others just as bad or worse</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-39805749025745067702024-03-18T11:45:00.003-07:002024-03-18T11:45:50.861-07:00Read this!!!!<p> <a href="https://elpasomatters.org/author/diego-mendoza-moyers/">Asarco cleanup trustee selling off land without disclosing ANY of the contaminants listed in now public document's invoice list (see usdoj epa asarco 73 page confidential for settlement purposes only document)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>See picture of the guy overseeing lining channel with contaminated black slag. He wears an ARCADIS shirt.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-27327855197224144592024-01-27T09:51:00.001-07:002024-01-27T09:51:16.388-07:00 EPA lowers soil-lead threshold for East Helena yard cleanups Helena Independent Record<p> "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with more cleanup of lead in East Helena residential yards following the closing of a public comment period.</span></p><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The federal agency said Friday in a news release it finalized what is called an "explanation of significant differences" document that lowers the soil-lead cleanup level at the East Helena Superfund Site from 500 parts per million to 400 ppm. The new language also removes the 1,000 ppm cleanup action level previously used to trigger yard cleanups at the site......</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The EPA also recently released national guidance lowering the screening level for soil-lead in residential yards to 200 ppm, or to 100 ppm if there are multiple sources of lead contamination."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="https://helenair.com/news/local/government-politics/epa-lowers-soil-lead-threshold-for-east-helena-yard-cleanups/article_13e0bffa-bc9a-11ee-b2b6-3b9d46db4ef0.html" target="_blank">Story link</a><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-264079614599548972024-01-10T01:03:00.004-07:002024-01-10T01:03:37.651-07:00BATTLE FOR SECRET ASARCO DOCUMENTS CONTINUES( 2010)<div>The Texas Observer</div><div><br /></div><div>BATTLE FOR SECRET ASARCO DOCUMENTS CONTINUES</div><div><br /></div><div>by FORREST WILDER</div><div><br /></div><div>JANUARY 28, 2010, 12:00 AM, CST</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"The following is a report by super-duper Observer intern Laura Burke:</div><div><br /></div><div>Really, what would inspire the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to renew the permit of one of the worst polluters in Texas’ history? State Senator Eliot Shapleigh (D-El Paso) is pretty sure the answer to that question lies hidden in internal documents that TCEQ is fighting like hell to keep under seal.</div><div><br /></div><div>The internal agency documents might reveal details about secret meetings between TCEQ commissioners and representatives of the now-defunct copper smelter ASARCO that occurred while TCEQ was considering the renewal of the company’s air permit in 2008....."</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/battle-for-secret-asarco-documents-continues/" target="_blank">Link to story</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-14085801912880862332023-12-30T15:58:00.003-07:002023-12-30T15:58:35.374-07:00Chatgpt refuses to search for a public document that had been kept secret 8 yrs and now released since 2006 🤣<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfT2XAgG92u8PfUcsrj9FeriqT4F94qqRCZhFwGOcEc6b337LRj1zdMEJxEPiwcPrQdOh6-2O2SbbuTiyDEZ1E3PaL3ZfKewC6C_iXZ_NJXFsAenoCTTf_zAlqeCKNR-g5T2QhN_pgKW1lHxAb7HlBHtV9dwTvQS23-10nf6SSNgylFWev2TS1ysif-vU/s1640/Screenshot_2023-12-30-15-54-09-260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfT2XAgG92u8PfUcsrj9FeriqT4F94qqRCZhFwGOcEc6b337LRj1zdMEJxEPiwcPrQdOh6-2O2SbbuTiyDEZ1E3PaL3ZfKewC6C_iXZ_NJXFsAenoCTTf_zAlqeCKNR-g5T2QhN_pgKW1lHxAb7HlBHtV9dwTvQS23-10nf6SSNgylFWev2TS1ysif-vU/s320/Screenshot_2023-12-30-15-54-09-260.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-40444435860890471632023-12-30T15:30:00.003-07:002023-12-30T15:49:25.987-07:002009 Sierra Club scrapbook asarco to close for good. <p> Comment in response to</p><p>https://blogs.sierraclub.org/scrapbook/2009/02/polluting-el-paso-smelter-to-close-for-good.html</p><p><br /></p><p>I treasure the Thank you card from Ms Chew's mom for the years of research i did, uncovering the 73 page USDOJ EPA Asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document. A TCEQ manager referred to this document in an interview and it cost him his job. It became public domain with his comment and I was able to get it. That document was covered in a 2006 front page New York Times story, and a subsequent national press conference at base of the Asarco stack, on Paisano el paso texas. I wrote and paid $300 for the electronic prnewswire press release that caught attention of the nytimes, but only Ms Chew backed me at press conference, not local sierra club. In order to gain national news story I could not release the document locally to groups until that day. Only Bill Addington, Mariana Chew, the sunland park environmental group (taylor moore esq and kids from anapra) backed me with full confidence, along with community members and an Asarco ex-worker. Asarco was there, counter-releasing news of nerve quench water rocky mt arsenal for gov, and an activist whom i mistakenly trusted with the document (he printed and distributed many copies of it at event, without holding my address confidential (was on top page), potentially endangering me as that had not been public, and indeed I was removed from my teaching job and fully blacklisted, and never worked again). If you are an activist reading this, understand that many working on an issue will use it to advance their own standing with others, usually to gain money or work. By the time i found out, he had already distributed many copies. Mariana went on the help me fight the re-permitting of Asarco's wastewater permit, which I wrote &filed given how Mr. Moore esq had taught, and she worked to get binational signatures and personally fax for me. She would later receive a Sierra Club Nat. Award in CA for her work on Asarco. My research was over 8 yrs, Taylor Moore esq and others (see legal suit over installing new contops, @ 1990) also had gathered huge amounts. It culminated in a regional epa director being fired after he released over 5 dvds of searchable asarco related documents to me that Sen. Shapleigh (he was given one box) was never given because EPA had stored the nearly dozen boxes in a different region (which contained the encycle whistleblower report). The attorney for the ex workers was trying to negotiate for release of three boxes. For some reason in response to my foia, all were released. Currently, EPA has erased all my asarco foias and one remains, but is listed as "no response" when actually it had a response (a set of those over 5 dvds). Presently the Wa DC federal register foia attorney I talked with (who had appeared to be helpful) will not open my email with photograph showing the response letter, envelope and discs. </p><p>It is also nigh impossible to find this blog unless you go to it directly, now.</p><p>Had I not followed Sierra blanca nuclear waste activist, Bill Addington's advice after getting that 73 page document, it would not have gone national. He explained it was a national story, told me what to do. He said if I released it locally, Asarco would bury it. To this day, that news story can be found when so much other information is now lost. This region owed a lot to his mom Gloria and him for their fight, because it ended in 1998 and was the cause of asarco idling the el pado plant by 2/99. Had they not fought the good fight with a great team, many losing everything doing it, it is my belief that EPA and ASARCO would have overlooked EPA's 1998 finding that el paso had the highest beta radiation air and soil in the entire USA in 1998.</p><p>- mrs mcmurray ms biological sciences, dual certification biology science grades 8-12, 2023</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-58073771165520872192023-12-30T14:38:00.004-07:002023-12-30T14:40:04.672-07:00<p> <a href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october242011/border-smelter-kp.php" target="_blank">http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october242011/border-smelter-kp.php</a></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="left" style="background-color: #b7d5fb;" valign="top" width="105px"><div class="topfive" style="background-image: url("/graphics/sbt.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-x; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); color: #666666; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><br /></div></td><td class="mt" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px;" valign="top" width="100%"><p style="font-family: Times, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.8em;"> </p><pre><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></pre><b>Oct-24-2011</b><h1 class="title" style="border-bottom: 1px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Lingering Questions Haunt Old Border Smelter</h1><span class="byline" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.7em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Kent Paterson for Salem-News.com</span><p class="subtitle" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">The legacy of lead, arsenic and other metals contamination in a tri-state region traced to Asarco has long been documented, but questions linger over the complete nature and extent of the pollution.</p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 350px;"><tbody><tr><td align="right" class="cap" style="background-color: #b7d5fb; font-family: Times, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 1px;"><div class="cap" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 200px; line-height: normal; margin: 2px; padding: 1px;"><img align="right" alt="Asarco plant overlooking the Rio Grande." class="story" hspace="0" src="http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/october242011/asarco.jpg" style="padding: 10px;" vspace="0" /><br /></div><div align="right" style="width: 350px;">Asarco plant overlooking the Rio Grande.<br />Photo: recastingthesmelter.com</div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a few months, the skyline of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez is set for a dramatic transformation. For generations the smokestacks of the American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) have towered hundreds of feet over the Rio Grande, first exemplifying and then symbolizing a bygone industrial economy powered by mineral and metals production. Still flashing into the night, the big stack’s red lights serve as a reminder to borderlanders of a history that goes back to the late 19th century.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">But according to US and Mexican authorities, as well as citizen activists in the two nations, Asarco left behind a legacy of pollution and sick residents in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and Anapra/ Sunland Park, New Mexico.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">Shut down since 1999, the old smelter is due for final demolition in early 2012. Project Navigator, the California-based company in charge of demolishing the facility and cleaning it up of environmental contamination, has announced a November 3 public meeting in El Paso to update the community on the project’s progress.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">According to Project Navigator’s Roberto Puga, custodial trustee for the demolition/remediation project, work is progressing on various fronts. A Texas bankruptcy court approved a $52 million budget for the project, but sales of Asarco’s on-site inventories are expected to net at least $10 million in additional funds that will be used to help Project Navigator complete its mission, Puga told Frontera NorteSur.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">Rezoning the Asarco site earlier this year, the El Paso City Council paved the way for re-development of land that is located only minutes from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), downtown El Paso and a possible future border crossing in Sunland Park.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">In short, the old Asarco property is a potentially hot piece of real estate.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">The legacy of lead, arsenic and other metals contamination in a tri-state region traced to Asarco has long been documented, but questions linger over the complete nature and extent of the pollution. For example, a group of former Asarco workers has contended that oil containing highly-polluting PCBs was burned in a company furnace.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">A local attorney working with the ex-Asarco employees, Veronica Carbajal of Rio Grande Legal Aid, raised the possibility that dioxins and furans could also have been released into the environment, in a letter sent to Puga this year.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">In remarks to Frontera NorteSur, Heather McMurray, member of the Sunland Park Environmental Grassroots Group, was critical of the planned demolition’s timetable. McMurray said fundamental questions remain unanswered about the identity of other substances illegally incinerated at the Asarco plant from about 1991 to 1998, a practice which resulted in an EPA consent decree against the big mining and mineral company.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">McMurray has been urging the EPA to speed up responses to Freedom of Information Act requests on the 90s’ hazardous waste operation. Based on existing evidence, she insisted that radioactive materials were among the waste shipments that went to El Paso Asarco.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">“(Asarco) is not going to be safe, even if it is paved over,” McMurray said. “Asarco disposed of man-made and naturally-occurring radioactive material.”</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">The smelter site where the hazardous waste was incinerated is very close to UTEP and its surrounding neighborhoods and just across the Rio Grande from low-income colonias in Ciudad Juarez.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">Both Carbajal and McMurray have also cited the Asarco site’s potential impact on groundwater and the adjacent Rio Grande, which supplies both El Paso and Ciudad Juarez with drinking water.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">Sam Coleman, director of EPA Region Six’s Superfund division, said his agency is reviewing documents related to the waste incineration operation but is negotiating with what remains of Asarco over the issue of confidential business information. According to Coleman, current law provides penalties including fines and jail time for federal officials who release proprietary business information.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">“We’re not going to do that,” Coleman stressed. The EPA official said the environmental agency is “trying to make public as many as the documents as possible” but that the “process takes time.”</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">For perhaps the last times, the Paso de Norte community will have a pair of upcoming opportunities to publicly question and discuss the future of the old Asarco smelter.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">The first date is Project Navigator’s meeting on November 3, between 5-7 p.m. in the El Paso Downtown Public Library at 501 N. Oregon St. According to Puga, engineers from his company will give presentations to an audience that is expected to consist of representatives of local elected officials, environmental regulatory agencies and the public-at-large. A similar meeting last year drew about 100 people, Puga said.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;">The EPA’s Sam Coleman also welcomed the public to bring their issues to a November 9 Border 2020 meeting also scheduled for El Paso. Although Border 2020 is designed as a general, cooperative environmental improvement program between the US and Mexico, Coleman said all relevant issues were “fair game” for public airing.</p><p class="story" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 1em;"><b>Frontera NorteSur: on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news<br />Center for Latin American and Border Studies<br />New Mexico State University<br />Las Cruces, New Mexico</b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-55106674850775634792023-12-30T14:28:00.000-07:002023-12-30T14:28:17.631-07:00Asarco comment see #3<p> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/elp/projects/border_highway_west/comments_120812.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjJ9pOthLiDAxVPfDABHZYsACw4ChAWegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3EsNrSlnzh6IbHBooAo7am" target="_blank">Asarco comments 3 and 10</a></p><p><br /></p><p>PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING #2 COMMENT AND RESPONSE REPORT</p><p>Loop 375 Border Highway West Extension Project</p><p>December 8, 2011</p><p>Page 1 of 19</p><p>The following are the six questions asked in the Comment Form (please see Appendix E to view the full form).</p><p>1. For each of the recommended reasonable alternative segments listed below, please indicate your preference by checking a box and stating any specific comments.</p><p>2. Do you own/lease property within the study area?</p><p>3. Are you aware of any areas that we should be avoid that are not shown on any of the exhibits? (i.e. cemeteries, hazmat sites, historic structures, etc.)</p><p>4. Do you have any comments on the Need and Purpose for this project?</p><p>5. Do you have any comments on the Project Coordination Plan?</p><p>6. Use this space to provide any additional input or concerns. Be sure to identify if your comment is related to a specific alternative.</p><p># Name Verbal/ Written Comments TxDOT Response</p><p>1 Michael O.</p><p>Herrera,</p><p>CNU‐A</p><p>The only statement that I have is that I want to make sure that all</p><p>consideration is being given to transit to avail itself of the loop</p><p>that is going to be created This will help us to move the</p><p>population expeditiously and be able to keep them off the road</p><p>so therefore improving the function of the highway that’s going</p><p>to be developed, helping congestion by moving people through</p><p>mass transit.</p><p>Comment noted. The transit alternative solution was</p><p>considered in the previous major investment study conducted</p><p>in 1999 and was not recommended as the appropriate</p><p>solution to handle the need for a controlled‐access facility and</p><p>parallel alternate to I‐10 to alleviate current congestion.</p><p>Transit has been carried forward by others such as the city of</p><p>El Paso as separate projects.</p><p>2 Osvaldo Velez Well, my comment is that to do a side street on 375 coming in</p><p>from the – from the east and opening the – if it’s possible, Coles</p><p>Street and –we, Park Street is already open but leaving Park</p><p>Street, Campbell, Kansas, Mesa, Oregon and Santa Fe open so we</p><p>can have access to Segundo Barrio and we can have access going</p><p><br /></p><p>3 Heather</p><p>McMurray</p><p>I've been researching ASARCO for seven years now. I have a</p><p>master's in biology, I'm a certified high school science teacher. I</p><p>was a member of Get the Lead Out when we went to the air</p><p>hearing for ASARCO's permit in 2005, and kept researching</p><p>ASARCO working with the group in Sunland Park called the</p><p>Sunland Park Grassroots Environmental Group.</p><p>We discovered that people weren't being told everything about</p><p>Verbal/ Written Comments TxDOT Response</p><p>the contamination at ASARCO. And in 2006 I was able to get a 73‐</p><p>page confidential for settlement purposes only EPA/federal</p><p>Department of Justice/ASARCO document from the ‐‐ someone in</p><p>the Department of Justice under a Texas Public Information Act</p><p>request.</p><p>The document told us that in no uncertain terms that ASARCO</p><p>had been running a multistate illegal, unpermitted hazardous</p><p>waste incinerator for almost ten years, maybe longer. We know</p><p>that they ran it between 1991 pre‐ConTop ‐‐ the ConTop</p><p>furnaces, spelled C‐0‐N‐T‐0‐P. They had the world's two largest</p><p>ConTop furnaces from ‐‐ so from 1991 to 1998.</p><p>Representative Reyes went on record with the El Paso Times</p><p>after I got this document in 2006. He said that ASARCO had paid</p><p>millions on the condition that the details of what it had done</p><p>would never become public. We've been after the details now</p><p>since I got that document in 2006. It's been five years. We've</p><p>dealt with two different EPA administrations, the recent one for</p><p>two years, and we still don't have the details of what they did.</p><p>We are still asking for the manifests that were listed by number ‐‐ </p><p>ID number in that confidential 1998 document.</p><p>If TxDOT, the EPA, TCEQ and other companies and agencies ‐‐ for</p><p>instance, Grupo Mexico who bought ASARCO in 1999 ‐‐ if all of</p><p>them had to deal with the facts publicly, the details of what</p><p>ASARCO had done, none of this would be possible. None of this</p><p>highway development by or through ASARCO could happen</p><p>without the proper cleanup. In other words, they're getting away</p><p>with ignoring some pretty toxic material, and this happened</p><p>because the federal Department of Justice allowed the ASARCO</p><p>bankruptcy court to skip, go ‐‐ to skip or ignore the ASARCO</p><p>liability from the materials it handled between 1991 and 1998.</p><p>They were never discussed during the bankruptcy, never brought</p><p>up in the bankruptcy and they were never assigned any damage,</p><p>you know, the payment that they had to make to remediate</p><p>these materials.</p><p>It was, as Representative Reyes said, that they had made a deal</p><p>to keep the details secret. And we believe that it's because we</p><p>now know ASARCO was disposing of Department of Energy</p><p>wastes and so were several of the companies caught sending</p><p>materials here to El Paso for illegal incineration. So every time</p><p>they move dirt in this area, every time anyone works in this area,</p><p>anytime anyone drinks water taken from this area we run a risk</p><p>of encountering one of those hazardous wastes that nobody</p><p>wants to talk about and that they refuse to test for.</p><p>What's happening is that they want this land development so bad</p><p>and they want the port of entries developed so badly and the</p><p>railroads to go through and all this development to happen that</p><p>everyone is willing to just ignore the fact that ASARCO burned</p><p>the stuff for nearly ten years, it's here and that ignoring it isn't</p><p>going to make it go away. And if they want to construct these</p><p>highways properly, if the EPA wants to deliver honest science,</p><p>then they will tell us what these materials are instead of</p><p>spending over‐‐ almost $500,000 on testing and not finding</p><p>anything is what's happening with the cleanup. They would</p><p>spend 20,000 to get a complete list of the metals present at the</p><p>site like at least one resident has done here, and they haven't</p><p>done it.</p><p>They refuse to let us get samples of a distillation unit that</p><p>handled the water for the entire plant that was removing low</p><p>level radioactive waste from the plant's process water. And then</p><p>when they demolished it, got rid of it, sold off the metal,</p><p>whatever, then they said to us, Tell us where to test to find this</p><p>stuff. So what they're doing is getting rid of the stuff and making</p><p><br /></p><p>it harder for the average citizen to ever be able to prove the stuff</p><p>is floating around down there.</p><p>And we rely on our government to deliver honest services, to</p><p>provide honest science, to disclose what hazardous materials are</p><p>present, and I was really sad to see on one of these charts that</p><p>some of the options going through or near the ASARCO site claim</p><p>that there weren't hazardous materials present. And I'm like,</p><p>How can they say that? Everything within nine miles of the</p><p>smelter is contaminated.</p><p>And if you look at the ASARCO Tacoma, Washington, smelter,</p><p>their contamination went out 30 miles. So it's a bad situation. We</p><p>do need transportation options, but we should be planning these</p><p>with the knowledge of what we're actually dealing with, not just</p><p>ignoring the problem that is there.</p><p>They're going to end up putting these roads in that they've</p><p>shown here, they've discussed it with city council. Representative</p><p>Pickett said that he would hold ASARCO's feet to the fire and he</p><p>never did. They claim that voters get to vote on these options,</p><p>they claim that this is a public hearing when it's a series of charts</p><p>and you get to make comments and the comments are never</p><p>really ‐‐ never really make any impact on these designs. They' do</p><p>what they want to do.</p><p>The area along Executive drive, west of Executive drive, has</p><p>already been platted and building has started there. All that the</p><p>city will recognize it's contaminated with is lead and it goes on</p><p>like that. I don't see how they can build here and protect the</p><p>workers building the highway and protect the residents' children</p><p>who will move into the area and protect the drivers driving</p><p>through from being exposed to this stuff for the next hundred</p><p>years unless they spend the money that they want to spend</p><p>making this highway on remediation of the site instead.</p><p>I heard that it will cost over 600 million to build all this. Well, why</p><p>aren't they spending the 600 million to clean up the ASARCO site</p><p>correctly and to protect our river from the plume that's</p><p>underneath ASARCO that's impinging upon the canal in the Rio</p><p>Grande as we speak? Why aren't they spending the money that</p><p>way? Why are they bringing more people in, creating a traffic jam</p><p>at this spot by building all these other parts of the outer circle</p><p>around El Paso and leaving this to last so that people ‐‐ there's</p><p>this ‐‐ going to be a traffic jam. And people will want it built</p><p>simply out of desperation because they can't get anywhere.</p><p>I think that the engineers involved aren't chemical engineers. I</p><p>think that the people in our government who have worked for</p><p>previous administrations and now this one don't care and I think</p><p>that it's wrong to build roads through this, disturb it, have</p><p>railroads going through it, have people living on it. And some day,</p><p>it may take a hundred years but ‐‐ you know, it's wrong to disturb</p><p>it. It should be left alone and made into a no man's land until it</p><p>has proper cleanup.</p><p>The EPA wants it demolished ‐‐ ASARCO demolished as fast as</p><p>possible, to have it paved over to reduce the chances of our</p><p>exposure, but they won't say exposure to what. They're being</p><p>gagged by what Representative Reyes described, the millions that</p><p>ASARCO paid on that deal to keep the details secret. And yet</p><p>we're being exposed to this stuff and the people who build this</p><p>highway are too and the workers presently cleaning up ASARCO</p><p>are also. And it's a real shame. Why can't we down here along</p><p>the border get the same kind of expertise, the same kind of</p><p>access to science, the same kind of access to well thought out</p><p>projects that consider all their actual information, not just what</p><p>contractors want us to hear? Why on the border is it always this</p><p>way?</p><p>It's extremely frustrating to me. This is an environmental sacrifice</p><p>zone, environmental justice zone. It is being ignored by the EPA,</p><p>it's being ignored by the TCEQ and now it's being ignored by</p><p>TxDOT, and it's not being ignored by the community. Some day</p><p>someone's going to be accountable for the children who grow up</p><p>here who will be able to say they've only lived here and they're</p><p>neighbor only lived here and they grew up and they have all</p><p>these horrible things happening to them. And it ‐‐ it's just a</p><p>legacy that we don't deserve down here. We don't ‐‐ we</p><p>shouldn't have to live with.</p><p>They should be getting this ‐‐ the kind ‐‐ they should be getting</p><p>public comment before they start to design all this intricate stuff,</p><p>and they're not. It's all about people making money instead of</p><p>spending the money on our future generations, wisely growing</p><p>children who are healthy and removing the costs that we have to</p><p>deal with for children who have behavioral disorders, learning</p><p>disabilities, the social costs that go with that. It's wrong to pass</p><p>those costs on to families just so that contractors can make more</p><p>money planning all this.</p><p><br /></p><p>10 Heather Mcmurray</p><p><br /></p><p>No‐Build Alternative: Yes. Google ASARCO secret document.</p><p>Why doesn’t Texas spend the more than ½ billion dollars on</p><p>correct‐remediation of ASARCO site (see 73 page 1998‐Federal</p><p>DOJ Confidential for settlement purposes only ASARCO</p><p>document NY Times 10/06).</p><p>3) ASARCO and Trust not disclosing all HAZMAT materials.</p><p>4) The need and purpose are being created by building more</p><p>roads up to this project areas and ignoring the hazmat materials.</p><p>5) Not enough public input.</p><p>6) TxDOT EIS contractor testing for hazmat materials should 1)</p><p>Run a full metals panel (over 100 metals) and test pond sludge (at</p><p>ponding areas) down at least 3 ft with a core (not an auger), attic</p><p>dusts and/or slag (from 1991‐1998)</p><p>Protect workers with Hazmat gear.</p><p>-------------------</p><p>*****Comments noted.</p><p>a) To the extent the project would affect the ASARCO site,</p><p>TxDOT will investigate and document in the EIS any</p><p>relevant issues related to contamination. TxDOT has not</p><p>concealed and will not conceal any relevant information</p><p>regarding contamination that it may discover. TxDOT has</p><p>been proactive in engaging the public on relevant issues</p><p>related to the ASARCO site. A second Public Scoping******</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-52115573715146189712023-12-30T13:44:00.001-07:002023-12-30T13:44:08.039-07:00Encycle asarco facility epa superfund<p>Encycle/ASARCO Facility</p><p>Bankruptcy Board of Trustees Encycle/ASARCO Facility - Corpus Christi, Texas</p><p>https://www.energyrenewalpartners.com/encycle-asarco</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Key Features</p><p>Oversight of hazardous waste characterization and disposal at a Superfund Site</p><p>Air quality monitoring to protect nearby neighborhood</p><p>Stakeholder engagement </p><p>Encycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund Demolition</p><p>Encycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund DemolitionEncycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund DemolitionEncycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund DemolitionEncycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund DemolitionEncycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund DemolitionEncycle/ASARCO Facility - Superfund Waste Characterization</p><p>The former ASARCO/Encycle Facility was originally a zinc smelter and later a recycling plant. The facility also included its own power plant, 52 buildings, a 315-foot smoke stack, a water tower, 11 metal silos, cooling towers, and numerous ASTs, The demolition of this EPA designated Superfund site required resourceful and innovative ways of razing structures containing hazardous materials while situated across the street from a residential neighborhood.</p><p><br /></p><p>ERP, in coordination with the EPA, TCEQ and the Bankruptcy Court, oversaw the removal of more than 35,000 tons of material from the site. ERP implemented a sophisticated air monitoring and reporting system to ensure dust from demolition did not leave the state boundary. </p><p><br /></p><p>The site also included the removal of a large stack that was filled with hazardous materials and coated with asbestos and lead paint. 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Reyes (was head of intelligence committee) comment (a jpg) removed from top of blog. 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color: #777777; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;">January 3, 2010</span></small><div class="snippet" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lead lenders to Asarco have closed syndication of a $1.5bn acquisition facility, wrapping up one of last year’s largest M&A financings. The bankrupt mining unit which is being acquired by Grupo Mexico was given a firm commitment from a top tier of 4 banks – </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Credit Suisse, Inbursa, BBVA and Calyon –</span><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> in August and the deal funded in the second week of December with </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">an additional 3 banks, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Citi, BofA-Merrill and Scotia</span><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. On December 21, the top 7 banks concluded general syndication, bringing in 4 more lenders. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Banco de Credito del Peru, Natixis, HSBC and Caterpillar </span><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">all took tickets of over $60m each, according to a senior lender to Asarco. The BBB minus deal consists of 3 and 5-year dual currency funds. The 5-year piece pays 425bp over TIIE or Libor, based on a rating grid while the 3-year pays 375bp. Some two thirds of the 5-year was heard accounted for in MXP funds just prior to closing of general syndication. Fees for the final round of distribution stand at 150bp for $60m tickets, 125bp for $30m and 75bp for $15m pieces. “One of the important features of this deal was giving lenders flexibility in terms of maturity and currency,” says a banker on the deal, referring to the 3 and 5-year option, as well as the MXP and USD choice lenders were given. “And of course a good risk/reward relationship,” he adds. “Other deals may be able to benefit from this because it shows people are prepared to put money to work for the right combination of price and [strong corporate] name,” concludes the syndications executive. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In mid-November, GMexico’s proposal to acquire Asarco won a favorable decision from a US cour</span><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">t. GMexico’s plan calls for $2.2bn in cash injection to Asarco, as well as use of $1.4bn of cash on hand from Asarco's balance sheet. It also proposes guaranteeing Asarco’s issuance of a $280m promissory note payable to asbestos creditors, forgiving $161m in tax obligations to subsidiary AMC, and allowing Asarco to keep a $60m tax refund. Cleary Gottlieb advised lead lende</span></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://www.latinfinance.com/topics/ma" style="background-color: #d6d6d6; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px; padding: 2px 5px; text-decoration-line: none;">M&A</a></p><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lead lenders to Asarco have closed syndication of a $1.5bn acquisition facility, wrapping up one of last year’s largest M&A financings. The bankrupt mining unit which is being acquired by Grupo Mexico was given a firm commitment from a top tier of 4 banks – </span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Credit Suisse, Inbursa, BBVA and Calyon</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> – in August and the deal funded in the second week of December with an additional 3 banks, </span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Citi, BofA-Merrill and Scotia.</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> On December 21, the top 7 banks concluded general syndication.....</span></section></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-40854772314489843372022-08-08T21:25:00.005-07:002023-12-30T13:45:22.518-07:00Hexavalent chromium used as rust suppression for electric generating plants and gas compressor stations <p> From Wikipedia 7-2022</p><p>"<span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">In 1993, legal clerk </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Erin Brockovich">Erin Brockovich</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 16px;"> began an investigation into the health impacts of the contamination. A class-action lawsuit about the contamination was settled in 1996 for $333 million. In 2008, PG&E settled the last of the cases involved with the Hinkley claims. Since then, the town's population has dwindled to the point that in 2016 </span><i style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 16px;"> described Hinkley as having slowly become a </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ghost town">ghost town</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT_2016_4-0" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination#cite_note-NYT_2016-4" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sbsun_2015_5-0" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination#cite_note-sbsun_2015-5" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</a>"</sup></p><p><sup class="reference" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;">Compare with asarco El paso timeline. </sup></p><p>This chemical has long list of effects.</p><p>The contamination issue went back decades before chemical recognized as harmful.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-52880049166969592362022-03-18T18:48:00.002-07:002022-08-08T21:31:20.853-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHLuLFMM5fFA-C6nl11eYyKhjuegt9r816zKVUPGtin5ErmpzCaXSARyXBf_MLQJO2e8G0UVbjan52C195A6ol6_wucdE12eGGl8OJ25vBAIrzm87783gTC9qR-7LqtjWLaJOCv92htpkcb5Poy6lLn0PzbRe_JK2BeuTva_7bJBIbkKbnyXjpcehu-A=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Lewis <lewis@winthrop.edu> and Ron Chepesiuk <chepesukr@winthrop.edu> </p><p>Dacus Library, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA. TEL: 803-323-2131. </p><p>Call it a toxic memorial, a monument to loose laws and fast money. This monument, tons of municipal </p><p>incinerator ash from Philadelphia, lies on a rural Haitian beach where it was dumped one night in 1986 by a </p><p>barge called the Khian Sea. </p><p>The ship had entered the port with a permit to unload fertilizer. Fertilizer? Hardly! This cargo contained </p><p>some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet--dioxins and furan and laced with heavy metals such as lead, </p><p>cadmium, mercury and arsenic. As workers began heaping the ash only yards from the incoming waves, one</p><p>crewman even stuffed his mouth with a handful of the flaky black cargo to prove its harmless nature. Nearly </p><p>one fourth of the 13,000 plus tons of waste had been unloaded from the barge before the Haitian </p><p>government intervened and ordered the ash reloaded onto the barge. But the Khian Sea disappeared under</p><p>the cover of darkness, leaving approximately 3,000 tons of toxic ash on Haiti's beach. </p><p>The Khian Sea returned to Philadelphia with the remainder of its deadly cargo. The ship spent the next two </p><p>years vainly seeking a dumping ground; it crossed the Atlantic, sailed around the coast of West Africa, </p><p>through the Mediterranean, down the Suez Canal and into the Indian Ocean. When it finally pulled into the </p><p>Singapore harbor it had a new name (the Pelicano), a new owner, and an empty hull. </p><p>No one is willing to take responsibility for this scandal. The city of Philadelphia blames the middleman who </p><p>blames the barge owner. The owner claims the ash was still on board when the barge was sold. The tangled </p><p>case went to court; finally in 1993, two executives of Coastal Carriers, operators of the Khian Sea, received </p><p>modest fines and prison sentences for dumping in the ocean without a permit. The legal battle is not over </p><p>yet. But how much longer will the ash sit on the beach, and who will remove it? </p><p>While the Khian Sea incident is one of the most notorious episodes of the international toxic waste trade, it </p><p>is by no means an isolated incident. In Koko, Nigeria, 3,800 tons of highly poisonous waste, including</p><p>potentially lethal polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs), were found in drums at an open site; they were dumped </p><p>by a local businessman who forged his cargo papers and bribed Koko port officials. An American chemical </p><p>company sold 3,000 tons of fertilizer to the Bangladesh government, but 1,000 tons of ash from copper </p><p>smelting furnaces was mixed into the fertilizer before it was shipped. U.S. officials verified that this altered </p><p>fertilizer contained dangerous levels of lead and cadmium. In another case, several hundred mysterious</p><p>barrels washed up onto the Turkish shore. When curious locals opened some of the barrels, they suffered </p><p>from nausea and skin rashes. A few barrels even exploded. In fact, countless barrels of trouble have rolled </p><p>down the economic slope to a number of poor, less developed countries: black South Africa, the former East </p><p>Germany, China, Romania, Poland, Thailand, the Ukraine, and others. </p><p>The lure of foreign currency available in the international waste trade can be awfully tempting to cash-poor </p><p>developing countries. In Papua New Guinea, for example, the government of the province of Oro negotiated </p><p>a deal with a California firm to build a $38 million detoxification plant to process 600,000 metric tons of toxic </p><p>waste a month. The deal, had it gone through, would have generated an income approximately six times the </p><p>annual provincial budget.</p><p>Unfortunately, the importing countries, enticed by the prospects of multimillion dollar boosts to their </p><p>economies, often make these deals with little understanding of the health and environmental dangers </p><p>involved. Most developing countries have neither the technical expertise nor adequate facilities for safely </p><p>recycling or disposing of wastes. </p><p>Greenpeace observers have documented dozens of Third World recycling facilities which would not meet </p><p>safety or environmental standards in the industrialized world. The substandard, even primitive, facilities </p><p>contribute to the improper handling of hazardous wastes in these countries. In addition, many employees at </p><p>these facilities lack adequate protective equipment. As a result, recycling-industry workers develop a variety </p><p>of health problems. Laborers who melt down car batteries develop lead poisoning. Employees are exposed to </p><p>cancer-causing dioxins and other toxic chemicals which are created when electronics industry wastes are </p><p>burned. Workers are not protected from the toxic fumes created by the open burning of polyvinyl chlorides </p><p>(PVCs). Other problems include mercury poisoning, increased rates of birth defects and miscarriages, kidney </p><p>disease, cancer, and even death. </p><p>But the risks do not stop there. The air, water, and soil pollution that results from improper recycling </p><p>ventures endanger the whole community. Equally as bad, much of the hazardous wastes which are exported</p><p>to Third World countries ends up in their landfills where it creates the same ecological problems created by </p><p>landfills in industrialized countries. </p><p>Eager to avoid negative publicity as well as to circumvent laws against the dumping of toxic wastes, many </p><p>companies disguise their deadly exports with benign labels. Greenpeace estimates that 86% to 90% of all </p><p>hazardous waste shipments destined for developing countries are purported to be materials for recycling, </p><p>reuse, recovery, or humanitarian uses. These creative schemes have included selling waste materials as a </p><p>source of fuel, shipping contaminated soil to be used as fill dirt for road construction, billing plastic wastes </p><p>as raw materials for the construction industry, passing off aluminum waste as feed for livestock, and tagging </p><p>waste from a metals processing plant as micronutrients for soil enhancement (i.e. fertilizer). </p><p>The importing countries are discovering that toxic wastes by another name still don't smell any sweeter. </p><p>Indonesia was importing foreign plastics for recycling, but in 1992, after discovering that 40% of the</p><p>imported material was not recyclable and that approximately 10% of it was actually toxic, the government </p><p>banned any further importation of plastic waste. </p><p>It is ironic that stricter environmental protection in the West is contributing to the build up of dangerous </p><p>wastes in the Third World. The export of hazardous wastes from the highly industrialized Organization for </p><p>Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries to lesser developed non-OECD nations has grown </p><p>dramatically in the last twenty-five years. Greenpeace estimates that in the twenty years before 1989 </p><p>approximately 3.6 million tons of hazardous wastes were exported, but as much as 6662.6 million tons were </p><p>shipped in only five years between 1989 and 1993. </p><p>Some measures have been taken to stem this toxic tide. By 1993, 105 countries had banned toxic waste </p><p>imports. A number of regional agreements have been adopted or are under consideration. CARICOM, an </p><p>association of 13 Caribbean nations, and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECWAS) have</p><p>each approved regional bans on the importation of hazardous wastes. In 1991, the Organization of African </p><p>Unity (OAU) adopted one of the world's strongest statements against the toxic waste trade, the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import Into Africa and the Control ... of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa. In </p><p>the Mediterranean area, the terms of the Barcelona Convention, which would also ban hazardous waste </p><p>imports, is being completed. The Asian Waste Trade Coalition, an informal association of more than one</p><p>hundred Asian environmental and humanitarian organizations, is being formed to arrest the flow of </p><p>hazardous wastes into Asia. </p><p>The most significant international agreement, however, is the Basel Convention on the Control of the </p><p>Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal. This treaty, referred to as the Basel </p><p>Convention or the Basel Pact, provided the world with the first clear set of principles for controlling the </p><p>international trade in toxic waste. The UN sponsored this treaty which was adopted by 35 countries in 1989; </p><p>by March 1994, 65 nations had ratified the pact. (The U.S. has signed but not ratified the treaty; therefore, </p><p>it may send a nonvoting representative to each full Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention.) </p><p>Critics of the Basel Convention blasted its weak stance against the toxic waste trade. The Convention asked, </p><p>rather than required, industrialized nations to cease shipping hazardous wastes to less developed countries. </p><p>In addition, wastes which were exported for recycling were excluded from even this modest request. No </p><p>wonder so many recycling schemes were devised by Western companies. Finally in March 1994, the second </p><p>Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention adopted a full ban on all hazardous waste trade to </p><p>developing countries--a move applauded by Greenpeace and other environmental groups. This ban doesn't </p><p>take effect until December 31, 1997, however. </p><p>It is little wonder that the Third World has leveled charges of "toxic terrorism" and "garbage imperialism" </p><p>against the highly industrialized world. As one African official phrased it, the Third World fears that it is </p><p>being changed from "the industrialized world's backyard to its outhouse." </p><p>This selected bibliography has been compiled to aid researchers interested in studying this important </p><p>environmental problem. The bibliography covers the period from 1980 to 1993 and includes monographs, </p><p>journal articles, videos, dissertations, and United Nations and U.S. Government documents. It is arranged </p><p>by type of document, and within types, it is generally arranged alphabetically by the documents' author. </p><p>MONOGRAPHS </p><p>Costner, Pat. 1989. Waste Traders Target the Marshall Islands: A Greenpeace Report on Admiralty Pacific's </p><p>Proposal to Dispose of US Municipal Garbage in the Marshall Islands. Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace. </p><p>Danaher, Kevin. 1989. Toxic waste dumping in the third world. In Un-greening the Third World: Food, </p><p>Ecology and Power. London: Institute of Race Relations. </p><p>Greenpeace. [n.d.] Open Borders, Broken Promises: Privatization and Foreign Investment: Protecting the</p><p>Environment Through Contractual Clauses. London: Greenpeace UK. </p><p>[n.d.] Pacific Waste Invasion! The Many Schemes of Consolidated Environmental, Inc. Washington, D.C. </p><p>Greenpeace. </p><p>[n.d.] The Proposed Likiep RRS: Resource Recovery on Toxic Dumping. San Francisco, CA: Greenpeace.</p><p>....etc</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-69556178042012280752021-07-04T00:08:00.002-07:002021-07-04T00:08:56.162-07:00DZERZHINSK to corpus christi 2016 <p> <a href="https://panjiva.com/subscribe?pan_source=pubsup&pid=38345122&section=products" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #15bded; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">See more goods shipped on Panjiva</a></p><section class="section customs-record" style="background-color: #e9ebed; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b5b6a; font-family: Conv_Akk_Pro, Akkurat, "Helvetica Neue", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="section-content alignCenter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px auto; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 392px;"><div class="everest notranslate section" id="cr_detail" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1.875em 0px; padding: 1.875em 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.33333em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sample Bill of Lading</h3><h4 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #76818d; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.33333em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="notranslate" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span> SHIPMENT RECORDS AVAILABLE</h4><div class="sample_bol" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 195, 199); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; grid-template-columns: 150px 1fr; grid-template-rows: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Date</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">2016-11-23</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Shipper Name</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">First Plant Llc</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Shipper Address</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">DZERZHINSK DISTRICT KALUGA REGION VILLAGE POLOTNYANIY ZAVOD 249845 RU</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Consignee Name</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Litasco Sa</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Consignee Address</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">9 RUE DU CONSEIL GENERAL 1205 GENEVA SWITZERLAND</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Notify Party Name</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Valero Marketing And Supply Co</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Notify Party Address</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">ONE VALERO WAY, SAN ANTONIO,TX 78249</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Weight</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">1246</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Weight Unit</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">ET</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Weight in KG</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">1246000.0</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Quantity</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">1</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Quantity Unit</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">LBK</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Shipment Origin</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Details</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">1,246,000.0 kg<br />From port: Leningrad, Russia<br />To port: Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Place of Receipt</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Petersburg</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Foreign Port of Lading</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Leningrad, Russia</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">U.S. Port of Unlading</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">U.S. Destination Port</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Commodity</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">8, 292 BBLS FUEL OIL</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Container</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">NC</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Carrier Name</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">MINERVA MARINE INC</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Vessel Name</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">MINERVA ZOE</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Voyage Number</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">161</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Bill of Lading Number</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">MIMA4482</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">Lloyd's Code</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">9255684</div><div class="label" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 37.5em; min-width: 3.75em; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;">HTS Codes</div><div class="table_value_bol" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-line-clamp: 5; border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(233, 235, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1px 0px; max-height: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 10px; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;">HTS 1516.20</div></div></div></div></section><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-61317732911864914852021-07-03T23:57:00.000-07:002021-07-03T23:57:12.484-07:00Blue alligator<p> In mid 2000's a corpus Christi resident who lived near ENCYCLE told me a bright blue alligator was seen in water near/at plant. </p><p>Encycle was right on a channel for 7th largest port in the USA. They took in stuff to be recycled but railed a lot of unknown materials to worlds largest two contop furnaces in el paso tx to be illegally burned. The smelter burned this type stuff from at least 1992 thru 1998. Maybe longer.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-73966151734288402672021-07-03T23:51:00.003-07:002021-07-03T23:51:53.480-07:00Blue animals <p> </p><header class="article-header" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-transform: uppercase;"><h1 class="title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 30px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Blue Dogs Found Roaming Near Abandoned Chemical Plant</h1><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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border-top-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The pictures</a> were taken in the city of Dzerzhinsk, 230 miles east of Moscow and posted to the Russian social media site vk.com, according to The Moscow Times.</p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179304737923560338.post-20956958232461603112021-07-03T23:46:00.001-07:002021-07-04T00:01:48.224-07:00Dzerzhinsk 1996 toxic waste<p> </p><h1>Living on Earth</h1><h2>Air Date: Week of August 1, 1997</h2><p>Dzerzhinsk (der- JZINSK), a once-secret city 300 miles east of Moscow once housed the Soviet Union's chemical industry. Today, it manufactures consumer goods -- including soaps, car parts and plastics in factories that are still dumping massive amounts of pollution into the air, land and water. Beth Knobel reports.</p><div class="clr"></div><div class="bg"></div><h2>Transcript</h2><p>CURWOOD: Most Russians have probably never heard of Dzerzhinsk, a once-secret city 300 miles east of Moscow, that housed the Soviet Union's chemical industry. During the Soviet days, Dzerzhinsk produced chemical weapons. Today, it manufactures consumer goods, including soaps, car parts, and plastics. Seventy percent of the city's 300,000 residents still work in the chemical plants, and those factories are still dumping massive amounts of pollution into the air, land, and water. Outside scientists are getting into Dzerzhinsk for the first time. They say that decades of chemical production have left the city coated with toxic wastes. Beth Knobel has our report.</p><p>(High-speed machinery whining)</p><p>KNOBEL: Block Number 42 in the massive Orgsteklo plastics factory looks like it hasn't been painted in decades. Inside the rundown warehouse, little plastic beads are formed into sheets of plexiglass, which are cut and then sold around Russia. In the process, the factory creates a putrid, burning smell, spewing toxins into the atmosphere, blanketing the whole town with pollution. Plant managers of the 60-year-old factory know they're destroying the air and water in Dzerzhinsk, but their main concern is keeping the factory's 6,000 workers on the job. Konstantin Varov is the company's general director.</p><p>VAROV: (Speaks in Russian) TRANSLATOR: What can I say? The biggest problem is the age of our equipment. Economic times are so tough, we can't buy much modern equipment. That's the root of our problem.</p><p>KNOBEL: The Orgsteklo plastics plant illustrates the paradox of Dzerzhinsk. Industry keeps the city alive, but it's also slowly, quietly poisoning its inhabitants. Unregulated dumping of chemicals and waste water has littered the ground with toxic pollution, which has leaked into the ground water, and seeped into the crops. Researcher Alexei Kislov of the Russian office of Greenpeace estimates that the pollution, especially dioxins, is cutting the average lifespan of people in Dzerzhinsk by 15 years.</p><p>KISLOV: We've never seen in Russia such polluted soil, water, and air like in Dzerzhinsk.</p><p>(Walking on clinkers)</p><p>KNOBEL: Outside the plastics plant, my nostrils start to burn as I approach a chemical pond hidden in some reeds. The size of 2 city blocks, the pond's water is an eerie shade of orange, with thick slicks of oily black chemicals on top. The mix is so dense, that rocks I throw in--</p><p>(Fplop!)</p><p>KNOBEL:--linger on the surface before sliding into the murky ooze. Dozens of rusted metals barrels sit in and around the chemical lake. They're partially decomposed, and one disintegrates when I touch it lightly with my boot.</p><p>(Rattle of rust crumbling)</p><p>KNOBEL: What is, or was in them, nobody knows.</p><p>(Rumble of wind)</p><p>KNOBEL: A few miles away, I find another lake. The locals call it the "White Sea." Dust blown up by the strong winds quickly coats me as I approach it. About 100 acres in size, it's ringed with icebergs of dry chlorine. Most of the water is gone, leaving a 3-foot thick blanket of chemical waste. While the toxic layer looks hard as cement, it's soft to the touch, and blows off in a strong breeze. From sites like these, dioxins and other toxic chemicals contaminate the air, water, and local food supply. Over the decades, 3 generations of Dzerzhinsk residents have been exposed to the pollution, and doctors say the effects are starting to show.</p><p>(Infant cries amid concerned adult voices beyond)</p><p>KNOBEL: At Dzerzhinsk's second maternity hospital, about 2 dozen infants, swaddled tight in blankets, cry themselves to sleep. The staff here has noticed a increasing amount of what they say are dioxin-related problems in the city's children. They say the rate of birth defects here is 3 times the already high national average in Russia. Many are born with weak immune systems. The hospital's head doctor, Grachya Muradyan, has been delivering babies here for 30 years.</p><p>MURADYAN: (Speaks in Russian) TRANSLATOR: What we see here among women is gross hormonal imbalance, uterus disruption, problems in childbirth, and the outward signs of this include hair growth on the stomach and the breasts. It's showing up in the second or third generation of women born in Dzerzhinsk.</p><p>KNOBEL: Residents of the city know about the pollution-related health problems, but for most of them, like this pregnant woman, there's no emotional or economic incentive to leave.</p><p>WOMAN: (Speaks in Russian) TRANSLATOR: Our city it is horrible. The ecological situation is very bad, but I don't want to leave this city. It's my home.</p><p>KNOBEL: Nearby, a man carrying his infant son says he'd leave Dzerzhinsk if he could. But, trained to work in a plastics factory, he has nowhere else to go.</p><p>MAN: (Speaks in Russian) TRANSLATOR: We have an ocean of problems, and they're getting worse. I hope my little son won't grow up in Dzerzhinsk. It's my dream that he'll move somewhere else.</p><p>KNOBEL: City officials try to play down the pollution problem, repeating, like a mantra, that the problems of Dzerzhinsk parallel those of other cities with heavy industry in America and Europe. But when pressed, officials like Mayor Aleksander Romanov admit the dioxin problem is serious. Still, he says, unemployment is rising, and in the short term, his constituents must work, regardless of the environmental cost.</p><p>ROMANOV: (speaks in Russian) TRANSLATOR: The fact of the matter is that ecology and economics are different sides of the same coin. The problem of ecology can't be solved without addressing the economy, and vice versa. So these two problems must be addressed in tandem. A plan has already be worked out, so we here look at the future with optimism, and I'm sure we'll find a way to conquer both problems.</p><p>KNOBEL: There is one long-term solution. Mayor Romanov and his team have drafted plans to try to attract foreign investors to the area, with their new, cleaner methods of production. Part of the plan calls for federal tax breaks for clean businesses that move into Dzerzhinsk. To get those tax breaks, officials are trying to get the Dzerzhinsk declared an environmental disaster zone. But Dzerzhinsk has yet to submit its application for disaster status to the federal government. The city worker preparing it has been out ill for 2 months. For Living on Earth, I'm Beth Knobel in Dzerzhinsk, Russia.</p><a name="links"> </a><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://epgtlo.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0