benzene exposure

 Louisiana refineries measured excessively high levels of cancer-causing chemical in 2021

Mark Schleifstein   
Nola.com The New Orleans Advocate

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_abc6493a-d230-11ec-b70b-33d4441c4873.html
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Valero’s St. Charles refinery was ranked fourth on the list of 12 highest emitters, with 14.1 micrograms per cubic meter in 2021. And at least one fenceline monitor measured a two-week average concentration greater than 29 micrograms per cubic meter, the level considered acute. But more problematic was an average reading of 300 micrograms per cubic meter during the two-week monitoring period that ended on Sept. 6, 2021, which was after Hurricane Ida disrupted the plant’s operations.

“That’s very close to the level where the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health says you should be wearing respirators,” Schaeffer said. “And that’s the kind of exposure information that needs to get out quickly. The requirement to fix these kinds of problems should apply not just to the long-term averages, but to this kind of short-term spike that can be very dangerous.”

Port of New Orleans proposal

 

Perks of Power

1,100 forested acres equates to about 445 hectares

 It is estimated that forests soak up about 20 tons of CO2 per hectare per year and do so for 20+ years

445 hectares would absorb about 8,900 tons CO2 per year for 20+ years

how many hectares would be needed in Violet to absorb the carbon emissions from PONO's proposal?  the carbon emissions from all the concrete required for PONO's proposal and the carbon emissions for all the concrete required for PONO's magical raised road and rail transecting Bayou Bienvenue and the Central Wetlands? AND additional hectares to replace the removal of the 445 hectares?

The USACE has another commenting period on this massive proposal.

Comments and requests for public hearing are due before June 8 2022

Here's how to submit comments on the PONO Proposal

Port of New Orleans seeks to expand in St Tammany

 Port of New Orleans seeks to make St Tammany Community the Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans.

Terri Lewis Stevens Proponent of Better Government explains where all the value added profit centers from the Port of New Orleans' Violet proposal will land; and its not in Violet, nor St Bernard Parish.  "Classic Bait and Switch from Bedroom Community to Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans! "

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St. Tammany, A Bedroom Community to Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics HUB? NOTE: The PURPLE...Council Meeting, Thursday, May 5, 6PM Koop Drive, Mandeville!!

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If it's Wednesday, there must be newly discovered info that St. Tammany Parish Govt. has screwed us somehow...Classic Bait and Switch from Bedroom Community to Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans! (Think of the area below the high-rise in NOLA East....)

1-Today's adventure starts with the January 2021 issuance of the 2040 New Directions stakeholder document where the only reference to STPG desiring to become the MAJOR LOGISTICAL/WAREHOUSE/MANUFACTURING HUB of the Port of New Orleans was a single reference to a "Light Industrial" complex.

2-Behind the scenes in Ap 2021, however, Masingill/Cooper were meeting with the Port of New Orleans and entering into written agreements for us to become a MAJOR Logistics Hub for the Port.

3-Masingill/Cooper then identify the first location-Azby's 160 acres at 1088/12 and set about in Oct 2021 to draw in John Crosby to buy and flip the site to a Distribution warehouse SO LARGE that we had no zoning category to govern it! So, they bypass all of the zoning rules and regs and change the land to allow 1,500,000 million square feet in a single structure to build there! And oopsy, no one alerted the Fire Department of this plan either, it seems.

4-The Zoning Board members are clearly complicit when they all approved this massive 1.5 M sf structure with no protections to the health, safety and welfare of the community, and without comment regarding the environmental impacts which undoubtedly will occur.

5-April 2022-the FINAL 2040 Land Use Plan emerges, covered in PURPLE...the new AML (Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics), which will set us up to have the I-12 Corridor become a tractor-trailer tangled nightmare.

6-Directly south of this 7000 acres of 2040 proposed newly PURPLE AML zoning areas are well-established residential areas. Who asked them how they felt about this? They will receive the worst of the polluted run-off from this area. Don’t they deserve a VOTE?

If Masingill/Cooper and the Council thought that a Casino deserved a VOTE of the people, why would a use like this, a change that will fundamentally alter our Quiet Suburban Quality of Life in this parish not deserve a vote of the People as well? Parish Government run amuck, once again. Guess that I’ll have to start another petition to show them how we feel….