And why did Freeport McMoran buy and then keep the old Phelps Dodge plant just about 20 miles east of the international city, on the UP Sunset line?
Scroll to end: click web view. Mrs. Mcmurray 's obtained proof Asarco smelter poisoned El Paso TX through what the EPA & US DOJ said was illegal burning of illegal hazardous/radioactive wastes 1991-98. (see 73 page 1998 conf. for settlement purposes only DOJ EPA Asarco doc,10/06 nytimes) We have never been told what actinides, forever chemicals, dioxins etc are present from illegal Asarco actions see "Asarco secret document"
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Monday, June 22, 2009
why did Acelor Mittal buy the tiny Border Steel mill
Harbert, Harbinger investors in Carso (Carlos Slim )
"HARBERT MANAGEMENT CORP * See Remarks 300 5
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS SPECIAL SITUATIONS GP, LLC * See Remarks
300 5
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS OFFSHORE MANAGER, L.L.C. * See Remarks
300 2
HMC INVESTORS, L.L.C. * See Remarks 300 2
HMC - NEW YORK, INC. * See Remarks 300 5
FALCONE PHILIP *See Remarks 28,538,734 4
HARBERT RAYMOND J * See Remarks 300 3
LUCE MICHAEL D * See Remarks 300 3
FIREBRAND INVESTMENTS, LLC[part of NYTIMES newspaper] * See Remarks
300 2
GALLOWAY SCOTT Director 300 17,166
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS MASTER FUND I, LTD. * See Remarks
10,989,217 1
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUND, L.P. * See
Remarks 10,989,217 4
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS NY, LLC * See Remarks 10,989,217 1
HELU CARLOS SLIM Affiliates - see Exhibit 99-1. 9,854,000
HARBINGER HOLDINGS, LLC * See Remarks 28,538,434
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC * See Remarks 28,538,434"
20080900 "proposed RMPA would change the land tenure designation from retention to disposal to accommodate exchange of the selected public land to the State of New Mexico and/or allow for future sale"
NEED FOR THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN
AMENDMENT (RMPA) AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
The purpose of the RMPA is to amend the Mimbres RMP to designate
selected public land for disposal.
The need for action is in response to the State of New Mexico's request
to acquire selected parcels within
Doña Ana County, New Mexico that are not currently identified for
disposal in the Mimbres RMP. The
proposed RMPA would change the land tenure designation from retention to
disposal to accommodate
exchange of the selected public land to the State of New Mexico and/or
allow for future sale.
PLANNING AREA
The proposed RMPA involves identifying for disposal 5,992 acres of
public land through exchange or
sale in Doña Ana County, New Mexico (see Map 1-1). The disposal areas
are located approximately 3
miles west of Las Cruces, south of Interstate 10, and approximately 30
miles south of Las Cruces, in the
vicinity of Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The public land is administered by
the Las Cruces District Office.
Disposal of the public land would include to the extent possible the
sale of land and the minerals
associated with that land or exchange of both surface and subsurface
estates. This EA analyzes potential
impacts resulting from amending the Mimbres RMP and designating selected
public land for disposal,
through exchange or sale..."
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/nm/field_offices/las_cruces/las_cruces_planning/bennett_ranch_unit.Par.45874.File.dat/DAC_PROPOSEDRMPA_EA_FONSI_SEPT08.pdf
[the land has transferred now 6/09 from the BLM to the State of N.M. for
future sale to Union Pacific Railroad, whose development-plan for this
area just north of the FOXCONN site has been completed]
THIS LAND IS WITHIN A 15 MILE RANGE OF THE EL PASO ASARCO STACKS THAT
THE EPA SAID ILLEGALLY BURNED [unmanifested/secret] HAZ-WASTE FOR PROFIT
DURING THE 1990's...AND THIS TOXIC WASTE HAS *NEVER* BEEN DECLARED
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Carlyle sits on the NYTimes board
York Times Company in 2001.
Mr. Kennard joined The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, in May 2001
as a managing director in the global telecommunications and media group.
.....Before serving in the government, Mr. Kennard was a partner and a
member of the board of directors of the law firm of Verner, Liipfert,
Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.
http://www.nytco.com/company/board_of_directors/William_E_Kennard.html
AUGUST 4, 2007 Mr. Slim has since worked to put together a rival consortium, which includes Mexican rail company Grupo Mexico and U.S. railroad Burlington-Northern
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118615255900587380.html#printMode
Carlos Slim has a net worth of $67 billion....
" A Mexican online financial Web site estimates that tycoon Carlos Slim has a net worth of $67 billion...."
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=34280
20090121 NYTimes "taken out a loan from ... Carlos Slim on terms that would shame the worst subprime lender"
On the morning of the inauguration, when attention was focused on the peaceful transition of power from George Bush to Barack Obama, the NY Times disclosed that it had taken out a loan from Mexican financier Carlos Slim on terms that would shame the worst subprime lender:
The New York Times Co., which has been struggling with declining advertising sales and is facing deadlines to repay hundreds of millions in debt, is getting a $250 million infusion from Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim.
The Times is paying a hefty price for the investment — an interest rate of 14 percent for the six-year notes —
and is giving Slim warrants that he could use to boost his stake in the company to 17 percent from the current level of 6.9 percent.
There is something ironic about the situation. The NY Times Editors have lambasted the mortgage industry for making subprime loans to the hispanic community. Now a hispanic is making a subprime loan to the NY Times. Maybe the NY Times should just say no to the money, or urge the passing of a law prohibiting such loans. Or maybe the NY Times is just waiting for its bailout package."
and
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/01/ny-times-takes-out-subprime-mortgage.html
coincidences?
...meanwhile the longtime-planned expansion of the Canal St. water treatment plant (just downriver from Asarco) to deliver water to Juarez just never seemed to happen-- and after the Conejos-Medanos Aqueduct was announced, TCEQ quietly put up the picture showing ASARCO's plume reaching the Rio Grande the extent of its property....
"Carlos Slim Stages a Border Water Coup [Apr-Jun '09]
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/today.html
In a flashy desert ceremony replete with mariachis and cheering supporters, Chihuahua Governor Jose Reyes Baeza kicked off a huge, new water supply and sanitation project for Ciudad Juarez on November 23. Designed to provide virtually the entire city with potable water while upgrading outdated wastewater treatment plants, the nearly $300 million public works project should be finished by 2009 or 2010, according to officials. Constructed to pipe in groundwater to existing low-income neighborhoods, the new Conejos-Medanos Aqueduct will be the crown jewel of the project. Once completed, the project could serve an estimated 345,000 residents of Ciudad Juarez. Funding for the water systems expansion will come from both the public and private sectors.
"Today we initiate this project of social transcendence," Gov. Reyes said. "Today this dream is made possible thanks to the joint efforts and work of the government, private enterprise and civil society." A much-needed benefit of the project, Gov. Reyes pledged, would be the elimination of the nasty-smelling wastewater spills that make life miserable for residents of neighborhoods like Riberas del Bravo. He called Conejos-Medanos the most important undertaking of his 3-year-old administration.
The water for the project will be drawn from the Conejos-Medanos aquifer that straddles the borderlands. Known as the Mesilla aquifer in the United States, the vital groundwater source supplies the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and other towns on the US side with drinking water. According to Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua state officials, 23 new deep wells will be drilled to provide water for the Mexican side.
Once laid down, miles of new water distribution lines will add a flow of 1,000 liters per second to Ciudad Juarez's water supply, officials estimate. Manuel Herrera, a spokesman for Ciudad Juarez's Municipal Water and Sanitation Department, said each city resident currently consumes an average 280 liters of water every day, a figure which is 120 liters less than in 2000 when each resident used about 400 liters daily. Herrera affirmed that a concerted effort is underway to cut down on wasteful water use.
"We've arrived at these numbers due to the committed work of society and government," he said. "The results have been very positive."
The Conejos-Medanos project has implications for nearby US border communities. Greater tapping of the aquifer on the Mexican side will likely impact future water supplies in fast-growing southern New Mexico, where rapid development has become a growing political issue.
For example, the November 6 Las Cruces municipal election resulted in the election of a new mayor and city councilors considered to hold more growth-cautious positions.
In Mexico, the financing and management of the Conejos-Medanos project is certain to spark controversy. Standing out in the package is the concession granted to the Carso Infrastructure and Construction company (CISCA). Part of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso, CISCA will invest about $100 million dollars in the project and be in charge of its construction. In return for the investment, the company was awarded a ten-year concession by the Chihuahua state government to sell water to Ciudad Juarez's municipal government. No further details about the agreement have been publicly released.
Barely unveiled, the Conejos-Medanos project is already drawing critical commentaries on Ciudad Juarez’s Lapolaka.com news website. One writer, for instance, noted the proximity of the project to sections of Ciudad Juarez witnessing land speculation and highway construction connected to new border economic development plans for the planned binational city of Jeronimo-Santa Teresa on the Chihuahua-Mexico border and Anapra across from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Mexican officials did not immediately disclose whether Conejos-Medanos will directly benefit the two envisioned border growth-zones.
In Mexican cities like Aguascalientes, meanwhile, private management of water supplies is generating public criticism of high rates and allegedly bad service. Last year, the Chihuahua City-based Community Technical Consultants banded together with 13 other farm, consumer and environmental organizations to launch a campaign in opposition to water privatization in Chihuahua.
Perhaps in a pre-emptive strike at nascent Conejos-Medanos critics, Gov. Reyes denied that the arrangement with Slim's Grupo Carso would produce economic hardships for water users.
"This will not have a direct impact on the people, on the bill they receive for home water consumption. We all pay water, sewage and sanitation. This is not going to have a negative repercussion on the economy of Juarez residents," Gov. Reyes contended. "The (Ciudad Juarez) water department, with its financial engineering, is going to cover the cost. The private investment has to be paid. The important thing here is that the department, with its financial management exercises every year, will cover this expense without impacting the population."
The Chihuahua state government's high-stakes investment in Conejos-Medanos was readily evident during the kick-off ceremony held at a desert stopping on the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa Highway just outside Ciudad Juarez. The event was attended by Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz (no relation to the governor), Chihuahua State Supreme Court Chief Justice Rodolfo Acosta Munoz, state elected officials and representatives of the Mexican army. Promised gifts in return for their attendance, hundreds of residents of low-income neighborhoods were transported to the ceremony on private buses.
"This is a project of life," said Uriel Chavez, one of the attendees, told the governor. "Thanks for thinking about us." Gov. Reyes, in turn, thanked Carlos Slim for making Conejos-Medanos a reality and invited the magnate for a toast of water once the project is done.
Sources: El Diario de Juarez, November 23 and 24, 2007. Articles by Luz del Carmen Sosa. Norte, November 24, 2007. Article by Salvador Castro. Frontenet.com, November 23, 2007. Articles by Felix Gonzalez. Lapolaka.com, November 23, 24 and 25, 2007. Ecoamericas.com, December 2006. Frontera NorteSur/Environment, September 2000. Las-cruces.org/vote007."
Banco Inbursa (Carlos Slim) bailed out Asarco, Slim also bailed out the NYTIMES after Harbinger went after its board....
Asarco claimed that in order to facilitate financing for the SPCC transfer, AMC made "an improper, undisclosed handshake deal with its lender, Banco Inbursa,......whose principal owner is Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim, "had together purchased approximately 90% of the bonds at deep discounts." "
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page36?oid=54788&sn=Detail
park was renovated as part of an agreement between mining company, ASARCO, the EPA, and the State of Arizona,
http://www.epa.gov/OUST/regions/regmap.htm
Google News Alert for: asarco
Central Arizona park re-dedicated after getting a makeover ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) - Phoenix,AZ,USA The park was renovated as part of an agreement between mining company, ASARCO, the EPA, and the State of Arizona, according to a news release. ... See all stories on this topic |
"The park was renovated as part of an agreement between mining company, ASARCO, the EPA, and the State of Arizona, according to a news release.
Updates to the park include new soil and sod, repainted playground equipment and walls, a new sprinkler system, and new rubber mulch around the climbing equipment.
Hayden Mayor Monica Badillo said during Saturday's festivities, “It’s fantastic that ASARCO finished this project ahead of schedule and was willing to put more funding than was required towards the park. It shows how much they value the people in Hayden that they were willing to put in the extra effort.”"
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
1996 Grupo Mexico bid on the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexcio first concession... (privatization of Mexico rail roads)
ahead, although at a pace far slower than originally
anticipated--roughly one year behind schedule.
Mexico's Communications and Transport Ministry (SCT) was expected to
award the first concession in mid-October, the Chihuahua al Pacifico
short line, but rejected the bid of Grupo Mexico and South Orient
Railroad Co.--the only consortium that chose not to withdraw from the
proceedings--on Oct. 9 on the grounds that it did not come close enough
to the $50 million value that SCT set. Grupo Mexico/South Orient's ..."
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
"...hearing would continue through Aug. 14 and carry over to Aug. 17-19 if required..."
"Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The confirmation hearing to approve one of the three competing reorganization plans for Tucson-based copper producer Asarco LLC will begin Aug. ..."
Monday, June 15, 2009
ASARCO AG ((Asarco SA) (Asarco Inc)) Registered AUGUST 31 1998
http://zh.powernet.ch/webservices/inet/HRG/HRG.asmx/getHRGHTML?chnr=02039018381&amt=020&toBeModified=0&validOnly=0&lang=4&sort=0
The following is excerpted from the above links:
"
26 | 4.9.2006 | Commercial Register Mutation | Asarco AG, in Zürich, CH-020.3.901.838-1, Finanzgeschäfte, Aktiengesellschaft (SHAB Nr. 167 vom 31. 08. 1998, S. 5999). New address: Usteristrasse 11, 8001 Zürich. Issue Nr. 23523 of 29.08.2006 (3532938 / CH02039018381) SOGC publication (PDF-File) |
100 | 31.8.1998 | Commercial Register Mutation | Asarco AG, in Zürich , Finanzgeschäfte, Aktiengesellschaft (SHAB Nr. 141 vom 25. 07. 1997, S. 5311). People deleted or signatures revoked: Beltracchi, Angela, von Basel, in Oberengstringen, Mitglied, mit Einzelunterschrift. Peoples registration new or modified: Haberthür, Urs, von Breitenbach, in Oberengstringen, Mitglied, mit Einzelunterschrift. |
(Federal DOJ Michael Goodstein's letter sending EPA confidential settlement document was July 31 1998)
20090415 Grupo Mexico S.A. de C.V. Obtains Approval To Lay Off Mine Workers
Reuters Key Development -
http://www.google.com/finance?cid=675983&morenews=10&rating=1&newsbefore=2009-04-16
20090218 COFECO fines Carlos Slim's Ferrosur and Grupo Mexico's Ferromex 27 Million dollars each...
Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 17:17 (GMT -0400)
http://www.bnamericas.com/news/infrastructure/Report:_Cofeco_slaps_Ferromex,_Ferrosur_with_US*27mn_fines1
Asarco El Paso smelter to be razed and site cleared per Feb. 2009 letter between Aldrich and TCEQ
Vice President Environmental Affairs
ASARCO LLC
5285 E. Williams Circle, Suite 2000
Tuscon, Arizona 85711
Re: Permit Numbers: 4151, 20345, and Federal Operating Permit No. 2871
Dear Mr. Aldrich:
As requested in your letter dated February 6, 2009 we are voiding active New Source Review permit numbers 4151 and 20345. We understand the copper smelter authorized by Permit No. 20345 and the supporting ore handling facility authorized by Permit No. 4151 will be razed and the plant site cleared. Accordingly, the pending Permit No. 4151 renewal application, revision request, and notification of qualified change request are also voided.
Additionally, as requested the pending application for Federal Operating Permit (FOP) No. 2871 for the Asarco El Paso Plant site authorized under Title 30 Texas Administrative Code (30 TAC) Chapter 122 is voided.
Thank you for informing us of the status of your site. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact Mr. Javier Maldonado, P.E. at (512) 239-6047 or Dois Webb, P.E. at (512) 239-1575.
This action is taken under authority delegated by the Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Sincerely,
Richard A. Hyde, P.E., Director
Air Permits Division
Office of Permitting and Registration
RAH/DW/
- cc: David Cabe, P.E., Zephyr Environmental Corp, Austin
- Air Permits Section Chief, New Source Review, Section (6PD-R), Environmental
- Protection Agency, Region 6, Dallas
- Air Quality Manager, Environmental Services, City of El Paso, El Paso
- Air Section Manager, Region 6 - El Paso
Saturday, June 13, 2009
First consolidated settlement
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/mercury/430498.pdf
Quote from Pancho Villa
http://avalosblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/1916-ny-times-refugees-flocking-from-the-interior/
Engineering gorup in 1974 handled the El Paso Lead smelter job, and 50% of the uranium projects....
"...I left OZ in October of 1974 to take on the PM job for New Jersey Zinc’s Zinc Refinery in Clarksville Tennessee...the company made me Manager and the Vice President of the Non-Ferrous Division....At the time I had what was probably the largest engineering group in the world doing lead-zinc projects as well as uranium extraction projects. We were getting around half the uranium projects on offer and we had the El Paso lead smelter job...."
Otago School of Mines & Metallurgy
1950s Graduates Newsletter
October 2002
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6776971/Newsletter3