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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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Republicans were right: Sen. Shapleigh wants to develop the Super Toxic Asarco Site
In other communities, stadiums have been placed on Asarco riverfront properties, and in still others, research parks or other key installations have been placed.
"Due to the proximity to Mexico, the historic nature of Peace Park across the river, and the rail and access to UTEP, this site is very important to El Paso's future."
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_13913153
"Incorporated herein by reference is a copy of
an internal EPA memorandum dated June 28, 2001, which contains the
following handwritten sentence: "The TNRCC is concerned that the
El Paso sampling plan doesn't undermine the ASARCO Corpus sampling
delima (sic)." An inescapable inference from this sentence is the
fact that ASARCO has compromised employees of both the EPA and
TCEQ. Both ASARCO and the regulators are concealing certain
ASARCO contaminants from the residents of Corpus Christi and the
Paso del Norte Region. Every individual who either knows, or
should know that ASARCO's contamination is being concealed is
exposed to both criminal and civil liability"
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
TXDOT ignores the ASARCO illegal haz-waste and plans to build elevated toll road on PAISANO...
of the worst contamination
http://www.txdot.gov/public_involvement/town_hall_meetings/elpaso_town_hall.htm
Glencore International AG
commodities trader Glencore International AG to its roster of approved
investment partners"
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-09/19/content_8711325.htm
(do a search within this blog for "Glencore")
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Asarco "cleaned up" and the Taxpayers "cleaned out"??
And why is there a Swiss Bank called "ASARCO AG" (Asarco SA, Asarco inc)?!
"According to The Wall Street Journal, Asarco now is flush with cash and reporting a total profit, after its bankruptcy filing, of $623.4 million. So in the end, the company is also succeeding.
"Whether this result was due to good stewardship, excellent management, higher copper prices, appropriate judicial oversight by the bankruptcy judge, extraordinary good luck, or a combination of all these factors may be debated," U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen wrote in his ruling of the case, "but the ultimate result is inarguable.""
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13876197
What can the Union leverage for Jobs? To stay Silent??
"...Lazalde and Robert Moore, an attorney representing Grupo in Asarco's bankruptcy case, met with The Republic to discuss Grupo's plans for Asarco, how it is responding to worries from community members and the status of union negotiations.
High on its to-do list is addressing concerns of the United Steelworkers, which represents about 1,700 Asarco workers. Grupo has until Jan. 15 to present a comprehensive proposal to the union outlining what it would offer in a new contract.
The union's current contract expires in June. Grupo has offered to extend the contract for a year, but the union wants a three-year extension to 2013 similar to its negotiated deal with Sterlite."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2009/11/29/20091129biz-grupo1129.html
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Senator Shapleigh's pages on TCEQ in "Grover's Tub"
http://shapleigh.org/news/3739-grover-s-tub-captured-and-corrupted-at-tceq
We agree with the observations about the TCEQ, but the pages (sent to constituents in an email) totally miss mentioning how the EPA proved Asarco secretly burned unknown (unmanifested!) hazardous-wastes for years, for profit, during the 1990's -- and that we only found out after the Federal DOJ made a 1998 confidential-Asarco-EPA-settlement document public in 2006 -- after EIGHT YEARS of silence and secrecy!!
We ask all of our political representatives/senators to let the community know what Asarco actually did here -- and, we want to know what chemicals have been left here from those years of illegal secret-wastes incineration.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Asarco Workers Union asked to accept a short-term contract extension // The years of unmanifested secret toxic waste incineration - IGNORED
[CRIMINAL Disregard by the Government for the secret chemicals (from what the EPA said were military and industrial sources) secretly burned here for years. WHERE is our Government/Justice? Can criminals act this way so indiscriminately and get away with it? Why is the Supreme Court going to review the honest services provision of the mail and wire fraud act this winter for the ENRON case (involving a principal bond holder ASARCO bank?). WHY is there a SWISS Bank called ASARCO A.G. (Asarco SA, Asarco inc.)?
The EPA-Asarco-DOJ "confidential for settlement purposes only" document (NYTimes 10/06) telling us what really happened here -- IGNORED. The secret toxic wastes from those years IGNORED. The recommendation of the La Paz Accord JAC committee to test for these chemicals IGNORED. The requests of the local community for split samples IGNORED.]
In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Lazalde also said the company assumed a contract that makes its 1,500 unionized workers among the best-paid in the industry and has offered to extend the deal through 2011.....The company has until mid-January to provide a contract offer, and the union has until mid-February to accept the short-term contract extension."
http://www.montereyherald.com/business/ci_13858953?nclick_check=1
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Exec says new Asarco to be profitable, competitive
CRIMINAL
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What do ENRON and Asarco have in common?
September 21, 2002
http://www.alston.com/neal_batson/
"R. Neal Batson is special counsel to Alston & Bird.....was appointed by the United States Department of Justice to serve as the Examiner for Enron Corp. and was authorized to investigate various aspects of the company."
[Fwd: TCEQ News Release--Trustee Named for ASARCO remediation]
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Date: | Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:45:29 -0600 (CST) |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ANDREA MORROW
PHONE: 512-239-5011 / PAGER: 512-896-
TRUSTEE NAMED FOR ASARCO EL PASO REMEDIATION
Project Navigator will manage clean-up
“I am pleased to announce the appointment of Project Navigator, represented by Roberto Puga, as the custodial trustee for remediation activities at the ASARCO–El Paso site,” said Mark Vickery, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. “This highly respected and experienced firm will work with the TCEQ to advance toward closure of the site.”
On Nov. 13, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi issued an order confirming the plan of reorganization and implementing the settlement.
On either Dec. 11 or 14, the effective date of the plan, ASARCO will place $52,080,000 in an environmental custodial trust to address remedial activities. Funds totaling $52 million will be used at the El Paso site and the remainder will fund clean up at another non-operating site in Amarillo.
For the latest information on the clean-up plans and progress, see: http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/remediation/sites/asarco.html.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
The ASARCO BANKRUPTCY COVER-UP IS COMPLETE??
"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has named a trustee who will be in charge of cleaning up the ASARCO site...Mark Vickery, TCEQ's executive director, appointed Project Navigator, represented by Roberto Puga, as the trustee. ..In mid-December, ASARCO will put $52,080,000 in an environmental custodial trust to support the clean-up."
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=11560816
AND IN THIS ENTIRE PROCESS THE FEDERAL DEPT. OF JUSTICE, THE EPA, THE TCEQ, THE N.M. ENVIRONMENTAL DEPT. ---- NONE OF THEM HAVE DISCLOSED WHAT SECRET AND ILLEGAL HAZARDOUS WASTES REMAIN HERE FROM WHAT THE EPA SAID WAS ILLEGAL INCINERATION OF UNKNOWN TOXIC-WASTES FOR PROFIT (DURING THE ENTIRE 1990's).
A fraud of amazing proportions is occurring right before our eyes - and we would never have known what happened here if an honest Federal DOJ Attorney had not sent us (2006) the EPA-Asarco "confidential for settlement purposes only" 73 page document to the DOJ (1998) that finally gave us the truth.
But the DOJ, the Bankruptcy Trustee, the EPA, the NMED, and the TCEQ all are ignoring that document as if it was never made public and as if the contents were still secret.
WHAT happened here in El Paso during the secret incineration of military wastes that is SO BAD that none of these Government Agencies can be open and honest with us??! It had to be very bad.
WHY is there a Swiss Bank named "ASARCO AG" created about the time that the smelter shut down?
HOW CAN OUR ENTIRE JUSTICE SYSTEM (THE BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE AND THE COURTS), THE FEDERAL EPA, THE STATES OF NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENTS -- ALL FAIL TO DISCLOSE THE CONTAMINATION REMAINING FROM THESE YEARS OF ILLEGAL INCINERATION OF MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES??!!??
WE DO NOT EVEN HAVE DIOXIN DATA FOR THE EL PASO ASARCO SMELTER. NO DIOXIN DATA. NO URANIUM DATA.
IS THE U.S.A. JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SO CORRUPTED THAT WE CAN'T EVEN GET DIOXIN DATA BEFORE A PALTRY 52 MILLION DOLLARS IS "handed down" TO US TO CLEAN UP THE RIO GRANDE, AN INTERNATIONAL AQUIFER (the HUECO BOLSON), OUR CITIES AND OUR AIR??!!??
HOW COULD OUR GOVERNMENT HAVE SAT ON THIS FOR THREE YEARS AFTER THE TRUTH CAME OUT? HOW MANY CHILDREN MUST BE BORN HERE WITH TERATOGENIC BIRTH DEFECTS BEFORE ANYTHING IS DONE TO DETERMINE WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE??!!??
Sunday, November 22, 2009
TX (statewide venue) "Environmental crimes prosecutor appointed"
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg on Friday announced the appointment of the agency's first full-time environmental crimes prosecutor.... Patty Robertson.... will be based in Travis County but will prosecute cases throughout the state.
The Travis County District Attorney's Office has statewide venue on most environmental crimes under Texas law, officials said."
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Businessman gets 5 years in Synagro case
[reprinted under fair use]
Nov. 13, 2009 | Updated: 5:07 p.m. Nov. 13, 2009
"Businessman gets 5 years in Synagro case
BY BEN SCHMITT AND JOE SWICKARD
FREE PRESS
Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson, a key figure in the Synagro sludge-hauling scandal in Detroit, was sentenced this afternoon to the maximum prison sentence he could receive under his guilty plea -- five years.
Jackson, 44, had previously pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to commit bribery before U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn, who today rejected a request from Jacksons lawyer that he be given only two years in prison.
Defense lawyer Richard Morgan said that Synagro should be standing here, and theyre not.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Bullotta disputed defense claims that Jackson was somehow lured into the bribery scheme. Nothing could be further from the truth, he told the judge. He also challenged the claim that, for all its notoriety, the now-canceled Synagro contract with the city would have ultimately benefited Detroiters. It was all about Rayford Jackson, Bullotta said. "He stood to make millions.
In dispensing the maximum sentence, Judge Cohn noted with displeasure the defendants refusal to acknowledge his wrongdoing, even after he admitted to his misdeeds. Mr. Jackson has not displayed contrition and remorse and he has not apologized, Cohn said.
But the judge added, Jackson, who has refused to cooperate with investigators in the ongoing probe, still has an opportunity to improve his fate. He instructed Jackson that if he decides to cooperate with the feds within the first year of his prison term, the length of his sentence could be revisited.
Theres still an opportunity for you to express contrition and remorse in the form of cooperation, he said.
Jackson, a flashy entrepreneur who traveled through Detroit political circles with an attractive young television anchorwoman on his arm, arrived in court this afternoon dapper and silent as ever. He wore a dark, double-breasted pinstriped suit and a black bowler with a jaunty feather, which he wore into the courtroom.
Bullotta said Jackson and Jackson alone decided to bribe Monica Conyers, the former Detroit city councilwoman who herself is awaiting sentencing in January for her role in the Synagro scandal.
Bullotta said the evidence showed Jackson was operating actively and independently because he did not tell disgraced Synagro official James Rosendall about bribing Conyers until after Jackson had done so. Jackson, the prosecutor said, operated out of pure greed.
Jackson is slated to report to prison on Jan. 15.
After the verdict, U.S. District Attorney Terrence Berg said, I hope this will be a deterrent to anyone considering any type of similar conduct in the form of bribing public officials.
After issuing the sentence, Cohn took time to commend the FBI and U.S. Attorneys office and likened their efforts to Hercules, who in Greek mythology cleaned the stables of Augean stables full of thousands of cattle in a single day."
[Fwd: TCEQ ASARCO (El Paso) Update]
We have added the following comment to the ASARCO web page.
On June 5, 2009, the bankruptcy court approved the settlement agreement concerning the El Paso Smelter and the Amarillo Smelter Sites. On November 13, 2009, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division, issued an order confirming the plan of reorganization put forth by Americas Mining Corporation, the parent corporation of the debtor. This plan implements the settlement referenced above that places $52,080,000 in an environmental custodial trust to address remedial activities.
This service is provided to you at no charge by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Visit us on the web at www.tceq.state.tx.us.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
El Paso ASARCO illegally and secretly burned Toxic waste for years
So why isn't someone in Jail, after El Paso ASARCO (and E. Helena MT Asarco) illegally and secretly burned Toxic waste for years?
And, why is there a Swiss Bank named ASARCO A.G. (Asarco S.A., Asarco Inc.)??
Why won't the Federal DOJ Bankruptcy Trustee require that the Bankruptcy Court considers ALL liabilities for ASARCO -- i.e. the liabilities from years of secretly burning military and industrial toxic wastes for profit?
What in the heck is going on?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
When EPA tries to do its job, it is labeled "Activist"
has called the EPA an activist agency that could derail Texas' economy."
Umm, you mean the plans for Grupo Mexico and Verde groups first planned
international city in the shadow of the Asarco El Paso stacks ---- in
the middle of this toxic disaster and the massive cancer-zone?
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/11/15/1115epa.html
Sham Recycling leads to Sham Asarco bankruptcy and sham decisions
- Why won't the Dept. of Justice Bankruptcy Trustee require that the Bankruptcy court consider the liabilities from the secret military and industrial wastes illegally burned at Asarco El Paso and E. Helena for many years?
- Isn't it illegal to not require full disclosure of the toxic wastes in the Asarco bankruptcy?
- Why won't the news disclose how Carlyle Group owns 20% of Grupo Mexico?
- Why did the EPA report that the Beta Radiation levels in El Paso just before Asarco shut down were the highest in the USA?
- The shut down occurred soon after the TCEQ made an abrupt decision to not bring nuclear wastes to this region for disposal, after all.
- Why weren't we told the truth for eight years (from 1998 to 2006), and why are the government and attorneys acting as if that secret document is not now public??
- Why won't the government disclose what poisons are still here from those activities?
- Why does Grupo Mexico plan to bid on a Pacific coast seaport - to run it for 50 years and bring rail freight through a port of entry about only ten miles from the Asarco El Paso epicenter? How could such construction and planning be done if the true extent of the toxic-waste contamination were exposed?
- What happened here?!?
Google News Alert for: asarco bankruptcy
Grupo Mexico Chairman Gets Long-Awaited Prize Wall Street Journal "A full payment is a rare species in bankruptcy," said Jack Kinzie of Baker Botts LLP, who had argued that Sterlite should take Asarco out of bankruptcy. ... See all stories on this topic |
"Ten years after launching a hostile takeover of U.S. copper refiner Asarco LLC and four years after forcing it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Mexican billionaire Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco [AND CARLYLE GROUP - THEY OWN 20% of GRUPO MEXICO] finally has what he wanted: control of the copper giant free from the threat of environmental and asbestos litigation.
The Grupo Mexico SAB chairman also will rule over one of the world's largest copper producers in terms of known ore reserves, adding Asarco's mines to properties Mr. Larrea operates in Mexico and Peru."
Sham Recycling leads to Sham Bankruptcy
Why?!
Google Web Alert for: Asarco
Grupo Mexico should control Asarco, judge rules Nov 14, 2009 ... Grupo Mexico should control Asarco, judge rules, A US District Court judge has ruled Grupo Mexico SAB should regain control of bankrupt ... |
"A U.S. District Court judge has ruled Grupo Mexico SAB should regain control of bankrupt Tucson copper miner Asarco LLC.
The ruling, issued Friday night by Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas, comes after months of legal battles between Grupo, Asarco's estranged parent company, and competitor Sterlite Industries Ltd."