Scroll to end: click web view. Heather Mcmurray 's research uncovering 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, forever chemicals, dioxins etc 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"
Please donate (see sidebar) to help recoup costs of the work to uncover and blog the information contained here"THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING"
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
Google Blogs Alert for: asarco bankruptcy
Exec says new Asarco to be profitable, competitive (AP ... By admin A top executive with the company set to take over Asarco LLC says the Tucson-based copper miner will emerge from a grueling four-year bankruptcy court battle. eCommoditiesTrading - http://www.ecommoditiestrading.com/ |
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."
Friday, November 13, 2009
Scientists can find Water on the Moon but not ASARCO Toxic Waste in El Paso
Yet, scientists can track water down to the ATOM on the moon.
"There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday...."The water findings came through an analysis of the slight shifts in color after the impact, showing telltale signs of water molecules that had absorbed specific wavelengths of light. “We got good fits,” Dr. Colaprete said. “It was a unique fit.” The scientists also saw colors of ultraviolet light associated with molecules of hydroxyl, consisting of one hydrogen and one oxygen, presumably water molecules that had been broken apart by the impact and then glowed like neon signs."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/14moon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
El Paso ASARCO illegally and secretly burned Toxic waste for years
hazardous waste without a permit. 42 U.S.C. § 6928(d)(2)."
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?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Selenium groundwater data Asarco El Paso 8/09
Re: Is there selenium data for Asarco El Paso?
<<11/11/2009 2:06 PM >>>
Hi, Lorinda,
Please see the article below about selenium in E. Helena. They also handled and burned the illegal and secret toxic wastes during the 1990's.
Is this data available on the recent disk you mentioned?
I have not gotten a copy.
[name removed]
Google News Alert for: Asarco
Report: Arsenic in East Helena water came from soil, not smelter The Missoulian Asarco Environmental Manager Jon Nickel says the residential wells showed an average of 9.6 parts per billion of arsenic - just under federal drinking water ... See all stories on this topic |
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Our troops now protected against breathing toxic wastes from open burn pits
Asarco-paid-contractor says that E. Helena Arsenic in the water doesn't come from Asarco...
"Iver Johnson, who is heading the onsite cleanup effort for the state Department of Environmental Quality, said nearly 30,000 tons of hazardous waste have been removed from the site this year."
Google News Alert for: Asarco
Report: Arsenic in East Helena water came from soil, not smelter The Missoulian Asarco Environmental Manager Jon Nickel says the residential wells showed an average of 9.6 parts per billion of arsenic - just under federal drinking water ... See all stories on this topic |
Monday, November 9, 2009
TCEQ Permits may not comply with Federal Requirements....
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/permitting/air/announcements/20091109
E.Helena Air safe from ASARCO stack demolition? Have they DISCLOSED THE SECRET TOXIC WASTES THEN?!
Yeah, and the EPA etc. all said that ASARCO had not burned secret hazardous wastes -- and then in 2006 a DOJ attorney released a confidential-for-settlement-purposes-only EPA document about ASARCO... and, we found out from this document (it was SEALED FOR 8 YEARS) that the EPA and DOJ had known ALL THAT TIME that Asarco El Paso and E. Helena MT had burned illegal and secret toxic wastes for profit for years...
Google News Alert for: Asarco
KFBB NewsChannel 5 By KFBB News Team It has been nearly three months since three ASARCO smokestacks were demolished in East Helena, and now results of an air quality report ... See all stories on this topic |
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Asarco Tacoma stack contaminated a hundred square miles...
http://www.helenair.com/news/article_782a2871-8aa9-56d9-9752-0664afd8c9d5.html
So doesn't this suggest that the Asarco El Paso smelter likely has affected 100 square miles, too? That would be any land (and water) 30 miles out from the Asarco site -- almost clear up to Las Cruces, and definitely throughout Santa Teresa.
So why aren't our environmental regulatory agencies telling us about this in El Paso and Sunland Park? (TCEQ, NMED and the Federal EPA)?
Dept. of Health and Human Services
this the agency that we have evidence covered up the Asarco
contamination in Sunland Park N.M., and that was recently investigated
by a Federal investigative committee for fraud?
DEQ confirms that East Helena MT ASARCO stack demolition was "safe" (E. Helena burned unmanifested toxic wastes, too)
The way that authorities are getting around the safety issue is to NOT LOOK for the unmanifested toxic wastes that both Asarco El Paso and Asarco E. Helena handled and burned (nearly ten years of the incineration).
So, how much credibility does this safety assurance have with the public now? None. The conflicts of interest preventing full disclosure are so common that to this day we do not have Dioxin data, PCB data, mercury data, polonium data, or uranium data for the El Paso Asarco stack area --- and, to this day no citizen group has been given split samples/funds to take these samples to a non-conflicted scientist/lab.
Google News Alert for: Asarco
DEQ confirms demolition of East Helena stacks done safely Great Falls Tribune By Tribune Staff November 7, 2009 Air sampling tests show that the demolition of three smelter stacks at the ASARCO smelter in East Helena in August did ... See all stories on this topic |
"Air sampling tests show that the demolition of three smelter stacks at the ASARCO smelter in East Helena in August did not produce negative health effects, the state Department of Environmental Quality said Friday....The DEQ asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency to review the air quality samples for potential impacts to public health. Exposure to chemical contaminants identified in the sample would not be expected to result in acute health outcomes because of the low concentrations of chemicals in the plume and the short duration of inhalation exposure, the agency's Dan Strausbaugh and Dr. Michelle Watters said...." [the news report did not give any chemical name(s) or amounts.]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Dr. Al Armendariz named Region 6 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
"November 5, 2009 by citizensarah
Environmental Groups Applaud EPA Choice
New Regional Administrator could signal change in direction for polluted state
DALLAS – Environmental advocates across several states are applauding the Obama Administration’s choice of Dr. Al Armendariz to lead Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Agency, which includes Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Armendariz, an engineering professor at Southern Methodist University, has worked with diverse constituencies ranging from corporations to citizens groups and has published dozens of studies on myriad environmental issues throughout his career. His appointment garnered high praise from the environmental community."
http://texasvox.org/2009/11/05/dr-al-armendariz-named-region-6-administrator-of-the-environmental-protection-agency/
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Asarco makes enough money in just TWO WEEKS to cover its 52 million commitment to El Paso for 110 years of contamination
Google Blogs Alert for: Asarco
By Andrew Johnson
Asarco revenue hit $96.4 million in September, Since filing for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2005, Asarco has made $5.6 billion in sales, according to the company's latest financial report.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
China CIC signs MOU with Glencore (August 2009)
http://farmlandgrab.org/7717
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Bankruptcy Court still refusing to reveal liabilities from years of ASARCO secret toxic waste burning in El Paso TX and E. Helena MT
"Battle for Asarco to face key test in Texas court
* Grupo Mexico, Asarco and Sterlite head to federal court
* Hearing to set stage for decision on Asarco deal by judge
By Jazmine Ulloa
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Oct 19 (Reuters) - India's Sterlite Industries... and Grupo Mexico SAB de CV (GMEXICOB.MX: ...) will head to court on Monday to begin the final stage of their year-long face off for control of bankrupt U.S. copper miner Asarco."
http://in.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idINN1836582620091019?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Supreme Court to review Honest Services Law with ENRON case (opinion due in spring)
Look for keywords "honest services" in this blog's search engine. Other
suggested searches are: "Carlyle", "Asarco A.G.", "Swiss bank".
Will the Supreme Court take away this law, gut its effectiveness, or ---
stand firm?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Asarco Buchan Canada: URANIUM values exceeded health guidelines
Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser
They are testing for the presence of lead and other substances such as arsenic and antimony, all left behind by Asarco, the now-defunct mining company which ...
"That testing, as originally requested by the Town of Buchans, which had concerns about human health, involved an independent consultant's getting 12 samples from the perimeter as well as 12 background samples taken outside the town. The results indicated that, of the heavy metals found, lead, arsenic, uranium, and antimony exceeded human health guidelines, with the lead values being of primary concern.
The sight of the environmental engineers conducting the current round of tests was a welcome surprise to residents like Nellie Chaulk, who came out of her house to find someone taking dirt from her lawn."
TCEQ ASARCO (El Paso) Update
We have added the following update and supporting documentation to the ASARCO web page.
- Summary Status of the 2005 Compliance Directive - October 15, 2009
- Groundwater Data Report
- Groundwater Sampling Locations Map
- Addendum 1 to Construction Report
All of these documents are also available from the TCEQ ASARCO Documents Download page
Monday, October 12, 2009
Why is there a SWISS BANK called ASARCO A.G. (Asarco S.A., Asarco Inc.)??
"Foreign investor Mikhail Katamanin, who in May was hit with a $12-million foreclosure lawsuit on his Highland Park mansion, filed a personal bankruptcy petition June 6 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago.... His debts are described as “primarily consumer,” and the list of creditors includes Atlantis at Paradise Island Resort & Casino in the Bahamas, Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and Trump Taj Mahal Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Chicago lawyer Kori Bazanos, who represents Mr. Katamanin, declined to comment. Related story: Lender asserts claim on lakefront mansion"
http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=34626
"A Caribbean investment company has sued to collect on a $12-million loan ...the property is held in trust by Swiss company Asarco A.G., which Mr. Mikhail [Katamanin] controls, according to the complaint and public records....lawyer Irving Drobny, who represents Asarco, is out of the country until next week, according to employees at his office....The claim also is to be arbitrated in Switzerland, according to the complaint."
http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=34626
Irving Drobny is the same name as an attorney representing the imperial family of Vietnam. A Chicago Attorney by that same name also serves as legal council for a Dallas Texas firm, "Transpacific Group" or TPEG. [" TPEG, headquarter in Dallas- Texas, with auxiliary office in HCMC, Vietnam, has played a very important role of great and effective business link and supports to enterprises and entrepreneurs in both sides of the Pacific." http://www.tpeginc.com/aboutus.html
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Former construction mgr for Hueco Bolson toxic-waste removal plant (i.e. "Desal Plant") now slated to be IBWC commissioner
The EPA said that Asarco had contaminated the international Hueco Bolson. Fort Bliss and the EPWU then constructed the Desal Plant on military property, taking the chemical contaminants from the water and pumping these twenty miles away for deep-well-injection on military property.
The EPA and other agencies have not told us what toxic chemicals remain at ASARCO despite an honest Dept. of Justice Attorney releasing a formerly confidential-for-settlement-purposes-only EPA-DOJ Asarco report in 2006 letting the community know about Asarco's secret and illegal activities from the 1990's.
Our TCEQ Director was replaced by a former military person whose background was clean-up of chemical weapons contamination. Our City of El Paso new Sustainability ("Green") Director used to be in charge of the clean-up of chemical contamination from Rocky Mt. Arsenal (which sent material to Asarco El Paso TX for illegal incineration according to the EPA). The Federal State Dept. stated that the IBWC workers are sick and cannot get independent medical care in the entire region -- but nothing has been done.
Now, our IBWC commissioner's background includes building the EPWU/military DeSal plant that removes salt and most chemical contaminants (including Asarco's) from the Heuco Bolson water:
"Drusina was construction manager for over $28 million of infrastructure construction associated with El Paso Water Utilities’ desalination plant."
http://newspapertree.com/news/4303-former-el-paso-city-official-awaiting-presidential-appointment-to-ibwc
APPLE Iphone
"US Chamber Fires Back At Apple In Climate-Policy Dispute By Siobhan Hughes, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday appeared to take a jab at Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Chief Executive Steve Jobs for defecting from the business organization in a dispute over climate-change policy."
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200910061815dowjonesdjonline000504&title=us-chamber-fires-back-at-apple-in-climate-policy-dispute
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
History : ASARCO on the island of Newfoundland
Google News Alert for: Asarco
Globe and Mail It paved the way for industry advancement, but also drew international attention to the tiny town, giving the US mining firm ASARCO (American Smelting and ... See all stories on this topic |
"By 1928, it had constructed a mine and mill, bunkhouses and cottages for married workers, a mess hall, church, school, hospital and hydro-electric plant. The company controlled it all, including a ban on outside vendors and the use of a 37-kilometre railroad track to Millertown.
“You didn't get in unless you worked with the company; you didn't get out unless you had a company pass,” said Mr. Corbett, the mayor. “This was a company town for a long, long time. For years, if a miner passed away, his family was given two weeks to vacate.”
Over time, fierce labour strikes were staged over living and working conditions – extra blankets in the bunk house and raises measured by nickels and dimes –"Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Just one ASARCO Bankruptcy Attorney-firm will make almost twice the amount that the entire Paso del Norte Region will get for the whole clean-up
"Baker Botts, Asarco’s law firm, took in $2.5 million in August for its work on the case, bringing the firm’s total payments to more than $104 million during the bankruptcy."
"A doctor tells a rich old man that he's going to die if he doesn't get a new heart soon. The old man tells the doctor to search the world for the best heart available, money is no object. A few days later the doctor calls the old man and says he has found three hearts but they are all expensive. The old man reminds the doctor that he is filthy rich and implores him to tell him about the donors they came from.....'Well this one belonged to a 58 year-old man, smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, weighed over 300 pounds, never exercised, drank like a fish... this heart is going for $500,000!!!' 'Five-hundred grand?!?!', the old man exclaimed, 'why so expensive?'
'Well', said the doctor, 'this heart belonged to a lawyer... so it was never used!'" http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Villa/3059/
Google News Alert for: asarco bankruptcy
Asarco keeps profiting in bankruptcy Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA Since filing for bankruptcy in August, 2005, four years ago, Asarco has made a profit of about $1.54 billion, while pulling in revenue of $5.47 billion. |
Monday, October 5, 2009
Massive secret ASARCO contamination epicenter is less than 15 miles from the SANTA TERESA FOREIGN TRADE ZONE
"February 4, 2008 o. 505-476-3747, c. 505-231-1488 Santa Teresa Foreign Trade Zone Expands Expansion will allow creation of “Binational Campus” SANTA FE, NM –New Mexico Economic Development Department’s (NMEDD) Cabinet Secretary Fred Mondragón today announced the expansion of the Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) in Santa Teresa, NM. The expanded FTZ provides manufacturers, suppliers and logistics suppliers in Doña Ana County the opportunity to locate on the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the Santa Teresa-San Jeronimo Port of Entry, near Union Pacific Railroad’s planned $150 million fueling and intermodal facility linking Santa Teresa with Juarez, Chihuahua and U.S. Interstate 10. “This is exciting news for companies doing business in Doña Ana County,” said Juan Massey, Director of NMEDD’s Office of Mexican Affairs (OMA). “By expediting the path to market of certain approved goods and services along the FTZ and eliminating some trade duties and fees, trade will increase to the mutual benefit of New Mexico and Mexico. It’s a true win-win situation.” Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) are secure areas under U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) supervision that are generally considered outside CBP territory upon activation. Located in or near CBP ports of entry, they are the United States’ version of what are known internationally as free-trade zones. Authority for establishing these facilities is granted by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The expanded Santa Teresa FTZ encompasses roughly 1,200 acres along the New Mexico-Mexico border, with approximately 2.3 million square feet of existing manufacturing and distribution facilities. “This is a timely initiative, given the imminent fueling and intermodal facility,” said Senate Majority Whip Mary Jane Garcia, D-Dona Ana. “This will be a boost to the economy of Doña Ana County.” [the economic cost of the ASARCO contamination on our health bills, schools, police, agriculture, prisons, etc is not considered] According to OMA Director Juan Massey, the FTZ expansion will allow the creation of a Santa Teresa-San Jeronimo Binational Campus to recapture the original advantages of the New Mexico-Mexico maquiladora (twin-plant) industry with facilities built on the Mexican side of the border within 60 feet of their companion facilities in New Mexico.
Such an arrangement will allow tenants of the campus to achieve previously unattainable levels of economic advantage derived from combining the business climate advantages of both countries. "Santa Teresa will become one of the most important logistics, manufacturing and distribution centers of the U.S.-Mexico border in the near future,” said Representative Mary Helen Garcia, D-Doña Ana. “With the establishment of modern infrastructure, Foreign Trade Zones and the Binational Campus, the New Mexico border will no longer go unnoticed as one of the most competitive staging points for global trade." About Foreign Trade Zones Foreign and domestic merchandise may be moved into Foreign Trade Zones for operations, not otherwise prohibited by law, including storage, exhibition, assembly, manufacturing, and processing. All FTZ activity is subject to public interest review. Foreign Trade Zone sites are subject to the laws and regulations of the United States as well as those of the states and communities in which they are located. Under zone procedures, the usual formal CBP entry procedures and payments of duties are not required on the foreign merchandise unless and until it enters CBP territory for domestic consumption, at which point the importer generally has the choice of paying duties at the rate of either the original foreign materials or the finished product. Domestic goods moved into the zone for export may be considered exported upon admission to the zone for purposes of excise tax rebates and drawback. Qualified public or private corporations that may operate the facilities themselves or contract for the operation sponsors foreign-trade zones. The operations are conducted on a public utility basis, with published rates. Many zone projects include an industrial park site with lots on which zone users can construct their own facilities. For more information, visit www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/cargo_control/ftz/about_ftz.xml About the Santa Teresa-San Jeronimo Binational Campus The creation of the Santa Teresa-San Jeronimo Binational Campus will provide the U.S.-Mexico border the ability to become more competitive against production threats from the Pacific Rim. This binational campus will allow the border region to attract more value-added manufacturers and prevent the further flight of companies to the Pacific Rim. Manufacturing firms will be able to establish operations on both sides of the border within a “stone’s throw” from each other. On the Mexican side of the border, manufacturers will be able to establish the labor-intensive side of their operations and take advantage of the region’s highly skilled workforce. Production inputs from around the world will be imported duty-free into the recinto fiscalizado (controlled enclosure), where they will be transformed into finished products. These products will be transferred (again duty-free) to the staging and distribution operations within the FTZ on the Santa Teresa side of the border. Automated integrated manufacturing, technology research and development companies, software developers, medical equipment manufacturers and electronics manufacturing are some of the sectors that would be attracted to such a business environment. For more information, contact Juan Massey at juan.massey@state.nm.us or (505) 827-0312. #30# "
http://www.edd.state.nm.us/newsEvents/pressReleases/2008/PR-SantaTeresaFTZ-02-04-08.pdf
Gov. Richardson who is ignoring Sunland Park's plea for justice from ASARCO secret contamination) -- behind FOXCONN maquiladora (less than 15 miles from the epicenter)
Governor Bill Richardson today applauded the groundbreaking of a major economic development in Mexico adjacent to Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Foxconn, a Taiwanese industrial giant with more than 500,000 employees worldwide, has begun construction on what will be Mexico's largest maquiladora in Jeronimo, Chihuahua.
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"This is one of many mutually beneficial projects that I and my economic development people have worked with Chihuahua officials to carry out," Governor Richardson said."
http://www.pcb007.com/pages/zone.cgi?a=22141
Friday, October 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Paso del Norte children should count as much as Tacoma WA children
Google News Alert for: Asarco
37 day care centers will be cleaned of Asarco contamination TheNewsTribune.com ... playgrounds at 37 day care centers in Pierce and King counties, sites that were contaminated by arsenic and lead from the old Asarco smelter in Ruston. ... See all stories on this topic |
"Cleaning up the properties will wind down a program started in 2005 to identify schools and day care centers in the “plume” of toxic chemicals spewed over Lakewood, Tacoma, Federal Way, Des Moines, Normandy Park, Vashon Island and parts of Seattle for decades, and to clean them up. The stack’s plume fell over 1,000 square miles, but the cleanup program concentrated on the 315 square miles closest to the smelter and most contaminated by its operations." (in the Paso del Norte region of El Paso, Juarez Mexico and Sunland Park New Mexico, this distance would include the new planned International City of San Jeronimo/Santa Teresa, and the keystone Maquiladora Foxcon.)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
TCEQ Commissioner tries to pull the wool over a resident's eyes about the ASARCO haz-waste burning.
Yup, the the EPA said it was illegal incineration of unmanifested toxic wastes for years, for money; and Rep. Reyes said that ASARCO paid millions on condition that the details of what it had done would never reach the public. They went to great lengths to hide something. They still are... "Nothing bad here".
ASARCO had put in the world's two largest con-top furnaces just before beginning the secret military and industrial waste burning. The EPA and TCEQ kept the secret activity and then their agreement with ASARCO secret for another 8 years. In five MORE years this community cannot even get dioxin data for the area around the smelter, or PCB data, or mercury data, or even polonium data. Other communities can get this data - but not ours.
It is beginning to look like Governor Perry appointed someone to be Commissioner who is not willing to be frank with the community. It wasn't the TCEQ who initially let us know that ASARCO had polluted the Rio Grande and the Hueco Bolson -- it was the EPA. It was not the TCEQ or the EPA that let us know about the secret waste burning years -- it was a DOJ attorney in Washington D.C. who sent it overnight-weekend mail after a Texas P.I.A. request.
Just a week ago a regional EPA administrator for our city of El Paso got into my face after a local meeting, and was quite upset - almost yelling. He finally said, after I refused to argue or engage in such heated dialog -- he finally said that secret DOJ-EPA agreements like that one (the EPA-DOJ Asarco confidential-for-settlement-purposes-only Secret document -- see link at left on Blog) were a dime a dozen in Washington D.C. and that is how they do business.
What is that old saying... that me-thinks that they protest too much?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Valero, Citgo get puny TCEQ fines,,Pollute and cause families endless years of agony, then get charge a fine so small it's like buying a cup of vending machine coffee.
Valero, Citgo get puny TCEQ fines
Pollute and cause families endless years of agony, then get charge a fine so small it's like buying a cup of vending machine coffee.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Guess who won.... "Grupo México is extremely pleased with the resolution from the Corpus Christi Bankruptcy Court and considers it a complete victory for the Parent, ASARCO"
Federal Judge Ratifies Superiority of Grupo Mexico's ...
Business Wire (press release)
Grupo México is extremely pleased with the resolution from the Corpus Christi Bankruptcy Court and considers it a complete victory for the Parent, ASARCO ..."
Thursday, September 24, 2009
January 13, 1999 one month before ASARCO closed, the ASARCO site became part of the Empowerment Zone...
The Empowerment Zone (EZ)coincidentally is within the areas hit hardest by the historical ASARCO smoke-plume.
"On January 13, 1999, El Paso was one of 15 cities nationwide, and the only city in Texas, to receive an Empowerment Zone (EZ) designation from HUD under Round II of the federal EZ Program. El Paso's EZ has been named El Corazon de El Paso (the Heart of El Paso) because of its rich historical and cultural significance. Encompassing the central core of the city and a portion of the Ysleta area on the east side of town, El Corazon de El Paso is rich in economic possibilities, yet is also one of the most impoverished urban areas in the United States...."
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/elpasoez/
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Western Refinery uses same Environmental Consultant as ASARCO
applying to be the "Clean-up Trustee" for ASARCO El Paso. They are also
being used by Western Refining to submit comments to the TCEQ "FLARE"
workgroup about flare-air-emissions.
Grupo Mexico stock surges and the PESO firms as Vendata offers to cap ASARCO's owner's liabilities....
"MEXICO CITY, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Shares in miner Grupo Mexico surged on Tuesday after a proposal from a rival in its bidding war to gain control of bankrupt U.S. copper miner Asarco LLC capped the Mexican firm's potential liabilities. Shares in Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX) gained 7.34 percent to 25 pesos as the IPC stock index.... The peso MXN=MEX01 firmed 0.55 pct to 13.31 per U.S. dollar as the greenback hit a 1-year low against the euro and weakened broadly against emerging market currencies ahead of the start of a two-day Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting." Grupo Mexico soars on Asarco outlook; peso firms Reuters
Friday, September 18, 2009
FNS News: Leading Mexican Environmentalist Killed
Environment News
Mexican Environmental Leader Killed
Editor?s Note:
Internationally-known Mexican environmentalist and forest defender Felipe
Arreaga was killed Wednesday, September 16, while driving his ATV in
Petatlan, Guerrero. The longtime campesino leader was struck by a mini-bus
and died a few hours later in a hospital in nearby Zihuatanejo. Although
Petatlan is the site of a military base, it lacks civilian medical
facilities capable of handling serious injuries. The driver of the
mini-bus fled the scene of the crash, and many circumstances of the
incident are still unclear....Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur (FNS): on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news
Center for Latin American and Border Studies
New Mexico State University Las Cruces,New Mexico"
For a free electronic subscription email: fnsnews@nmsu.edu
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Railroad Link from planned International City to El Paso
Rail in the Pass documentation presented to the MPO and others (MPO archived it) (starts page 74)
01/2003 ASARCO highlighted for Intermodal Rail to San Jeronimo/Santa Teresa...
Above figure is from 01/03. Verde moved here winter of 2003 to do the downtown redevelopment plan.
- Remember that "Ferromex" is owned by Grupo Mexico, who owns ASARCO
- that the secret of the toxic-waste was LOCKED UP in the EPA/DOJ/ASARCO CONFIDENTIAL-FOR-SETTLEMENT PURPOSES ONLY DOCUMENT (not revealed until 2006!)
- that the rail remodeling could not happen if the poisons were ever disclosed.
- that the Federal EPA came here in 2001 for "testing" and NEVER DISCLOSED THE TOXIC WASTE
http://www.elpasompo.org/Publications/Transit/tabid/185/Default.aspx
Senator Shapleigh writes about examples of successful Regional Metropolitan Governments
"METRO GOVERNMENT IN THE TIME OF DEFICITS"
Written by Senator Eliot Shapleigh, www.shapleigh.org
"...local governments are taking a close look at consolidation, whereby city and county governments merge as a single taxing entity and service provider.... In 1962, the city of Nashville, Tennessee and the county of Davidson consolidated all services, including the public school systems, police, fire, water and sewer services, planning and zoning, and public works....
Other examples of successful Regional Metropolitan Governments can be found in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon. ....consolidated governments also experienced a 17% increase in capita income, compared to 11% growth in non-consolidated regions."
Citigroup Bank is a "Key Financial" entity for the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority
Citigroup is a primary ASARCO Bondholder
Another Key Financial Team member for the CRRMA is Fulbright and Jaworski, L.P. whose partner Evelyn H. Biery ".... has assisted the official committees of unsecured creditors in the ASARCO LLC case"
The CRRMA is slated to build an elevated toll road right by ASARCO El PASO over Paisano through the worst of the worst ASARCO contamination and over our drinking/irrigation water supply (the El Paso MPO led by Rep. Joe Pickett voted to ALLOW THIS CONSTRUCTION DESPITE THE STILL-SECRET POISONS)
Would El Pasoans agree that it might be possible that these key members of the CRRMA might have a conflict of interest WITH DISCLOSING THE STILL-SECRET ILLEGAL TOXIC-WASTES THAT THE EPA told the DOJ ASARCO BURNED THROUGH THE 1990's AT THE EL PASO SITE??
Is land-grabbing and development of the Asarco site worth more than finding out what happened to this 3 year old child ??
[Westside El Paso] "....Lopez's daughter Danika was born in February 2006 with myriad health problems. She has Goldenhar syndrome, a congenital condition that causes facial deformities and also affected her heart. She has lung problems and was born without several body parts, including fingers, an ear and the bones of one forearm.
Danika spent the first 80 days of her life in a hospital, mostly in intensive care. Her parents' insurance covered her medical costs for a while, but it was maxed out at $5 million when she was about 2...."
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_13280354
" "We've also seen a lot of what is known as 'Goldenhar Syndrome,' that is where there is a missing left eye and left ear. It's very strange...."
http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0307nn/030703nn.htm
ASARCO El Paso was shut down in February of 1999 after the EPA registered the highest Beta-radiation levels in the USA in El Paso in 1998 (we are assured that these readings mean nothing by the EPA, and that we are safe). Four months before the shut-down the TCEQ decided to deny the nuclear-dump-license for the Sierra Blanca site just about 80 miles from El Paso, after press/media events reached international levels.
ASARCO is paying just $52 million to "clean up" a secret-toxic-waste-site on the West side of El Paso. To put that amount of money into perspective, that amount could only pay for medical care for ten children with the birth/heart -defects like what Danika has suffered -- and, only for the first few years of their lives.In 2006 a Lena Katamanin bought a Highland Park IL property from Swiss Company ASARCO A.G. for $496,000 -- it is now being offered for sale at $980,000
"Date Address Price Seller Buyer
Jun 30 [2006] Single Family1380 S Lincoln Avenue $496,000 Ag Asarco Lena Katamanin
(see: http://lakeco.blockshopper.com/months/cities--11/2006/6)
...Owner: Lena Katamanin
Offered for Sale: $980,000
+ AGENT: Elena Maliavina
sales history (2001-present)
Shadow
$496,000 on June 30, 2006
B: Lena Katamanin
S: Ag Asarco
...
2007 property taxes: $12,126.22"
The AGENT Elena Maliavina is listed for the following Highland Park real estate swap in the same Highland Park neighborhood over a single property sold back and forth with the Chicago Title Land Co. Trust with Michael Vdovets
http://lakeco.blockshopper.com/property/1625106001/1380_s_lincoln_avenue/listing/
A Google search shows that a Chicago Michael Vdovets name shows up in connection with a "Center of the Northshore" Chicago IL EPA database... [the "Center of the Northshore" is apparently a condo, bank, restaurant complex being developed on an apparently contaminated site apparently formerly owned by "combined insurance co of america"]
http://www.northbrook.il.us/Government/BoardsCommissions/Passouts/2007/0424APR/documents/TrafficStudy2-21-07.pdf -- and --
http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110007556885 )
Illinois EPA data systems. | ||||
BOL ID # | Facility Name | Street | City | Lat/Lon |
0312075243 | Center of the Northshore | 700 Skokie Blvd | Northbrook | 42.13993/-87.79413 |
http://epadata.epa.state.il.us/land/inventory/deepSeids.asp?strInvNo=0312075243
A Michael Vdovets from Chicago also shows up listed with Kaiser Development Group LLC
http://www.childrenofisraelfund.org/israel56.asp
His name also appears in conjunction with:
"Consultant: GaiaTech, Inc.
Point of Contact: John H. Yang
Address: 200 North LaSalle Street Suite 2600
Chicago, IL 60601 "
http://epadata.epa.state.il.us/land/SRP/Results.asp?IEPAID=0312075243
April 09 Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo [THE ASARCO EPA/DOJ/TCEQ EL PASO HEARING WAS MAY 11 - one month later...]
"Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo
Soldiers report: "chronic bronchitis, asthma, sleep apnea, chronic coughs and allergy-like symptoms. Several also have cited heart problems, lymphoma and leukemia." [DOES THIS SOUND LIKE ASARCO EL PASO?]
"The story then goes on to discuss a Pentagon report titled "Just the Facts" which, given the now-leaked memo, reeks of obfuscation. According to Army Times, "Just the Facts" admits the "occasional presence" of possibly harmful toxins but then attempts to write-off the cancerous Balad Airbase miasma as harmless..."
[We are assured in El Paso around ASARCO that having the highest radioactive BETA readings in the U.S.A. winter of '98 just before the smelter closed was "harmless"]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/10/pentagon-knowingly-expose_n_173493.html
Monday, September 14, 2009
City of El Paso - will they approve 1 million $ contract to SAIC (high-clearance Government-contractor-company under investigation for fraud; and company that did ASARCO testing)
"SECOND AMENDMENT TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT
SOLICITATION NO. 2008-010R BETWEEN THE CITY OF EL PASO AND SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (SAIC).....
WHEREAS, El Paso City Council by motion on March 25, 2008 awarded Solicitation
No. 2008-010R for a total amount of $846,545.57 to Consultant for services to prepare a
Regional Growth Management Plan (the “RGMP”) and on even date the City Manager entered
into a Professional Services Contract with Consultant for said services (the “Contract”); and
WHEREAS, on April 14, 2009, the CITY and CONSULTANT first amended the
Contract to provide for additional public outreach services and increased the total amount of the
Contract to $882, 399.32; and
WHEREAS, CITY and CONSULTANT now desire to amend the Contract to provide
for additional services related to presentation and housing analysis activities, to increase the
contract award for payment of said additional services by $156,777.19 resulting in a total
contract award amount of $1,039,176.51, and to extend the overall period of performance and
receipt of project deliverables, as specified herein.....
2. CONSULTANT will prepare and deliver oral presentations of the
major findings of the Regional Growth Management Plan to the City Manager and
selected staff, to the City Council, and to the Mayor and selected personnel. The
presentation will include both physical and electronic versions of the presentation.
These presentations will be provided during the same week as the El Paso Housing
Forum II."
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | April 10, 2009