On Sat. morning, Mr Puga (project navigator) contracted Brandenburg Industrial services to contract Dykon demolition company to blow up both Asarco stacks.  Yesterday we had 50 MPH winds.  These winds pick up dirt into the air which are called "fugitive dusts".  When these dusts have chemicals in them that are bad for us, it hurts Public health.  Particularly it affects the elderly, ill and young.  Those people with asthma or c.o.p.d. are especially susceptible.

After the largest stack comes down it will fall into an arroyo feeding the Rio Grande, right on top of our aquifers.  This hazardous waste dump will be on top of a forty year old liner that may not last that long.   Workers will be taking the rebar out of the stack pieces.  It will make smaller pieces that despite water sprays can over many months become airborne dusts ---- fugitive dusts.

so why are these companies refusing to delay demolition until after the windy season??

(see KVIA channel 7 el paso tx current online video story about the spring windy season with weather reporter John Fausett, story from april 8 and http://www.kvia.com/video/StormTRACK-Weather-Spring-Dust-Storms/-/421452/19675106/-/q67g45z/-/index.html

"Each year the River Rouge coal plant in Detroit releases enough pollution to cause approximately 44 deaths, 72 heart attacks, and 700 asthma attacks, according to a 2010 study by the Clean Air Task Force" ( page 5 March 2013  "GREEN AMERICA").   Imagine how many potential deaths and illnesses might have resulted from the pollution coming out of the ASARCO facility, including the off-gassing from the slag on site and the ten years of illegal radioactive and other noxious/hazardous waste burning from Asarco El Paso ( NY Times 10/06 and report(s) from local citizen who ran CA emission firm tests on his attic dust -- see the scribe link-- and the Idaho national Laboratory).