second take

As if ExxonMobil’s monstrosity in Chalmette or Baton Rouge isn’t having the same effect on the neighbors, Exxon’s CEO is suing about a water tower in his neighborhood.

The partially built "monstrosity," as the lawsuit calls it, is adjacent to both Tillerson's Bar RR Ranch and Armey's property. The suit alleges that the water tower is diminishing neighbors' property values and "causing unreasonable discomfort and annoyance to persons of ordinary sensibilities."

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/exxon-ceo-rex-tillerson-lawsuit_n_4833185.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

petcoke and coal

Converting tar-sands oil into usable fuels requires a huge amount of energy, and much of the black gunk that's refined out of the crude in this process ends up as petroleum coke. Petcoke is like concentrated coal – denser and dirtier than anything that comes out of a mine. It can be burned just like coal to produce power, but petcoke emits up to 15 percent more climate pollution. (It also contains up to 12 times as much sulfur, not to mention a slew of heavy metals.) In Canada, the stuff is largely treated like a waste product; the country has stockpiled nearly 80 million tons of it. Here in the U.S., petcoke is sometimes burned in coal plants, but it's so filthy that the EPA has stopped issuing any new licenses for its use as fuel. "Literally, in terms of climate change," says Stockman, "it's the dirtiest fuel on the planet."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-u-s-exports-global-warming-20140203#ixzz2sOXsISRN

STOP Poisoning Water

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air quality and hydrogen sulfide

Higher than the daily recommended hydrogen sulfide levels 

UPDATE:  On January 23 2014, hydrogen sulfide levels in neighborhood measured 30 ppb.  In the State of California, this level of hydrogen sulfide would violate the health standards.

St Bernard Parish residents have been exposed to more hydrogen sulfide than the daily exposure level recommended by the EPA.  Hydrogen sulfide is a gas which causes deleterious effects at chronic low level exposures of 0.0014 ppm (1.4 ppb).  H2S can cause genetic damage, plus serious and permanent central nervous system damage. [1].
Health effects from chronic low level exposure include the burning and tearing of eyes, cough, shortness of breath, and for asthmatics, difficulty breathing.  The effects may be delayed for several hours, or sometimes several days, when exposed to low level concentrations.  Chronic exposure causes eye inflammation, headache, fatigue, irritability, insomnia, digestive disturbances and weight loss. Researchers found the following demonstrable symptoms resulting from chronic exposure to H2S:  changes in brain density, abnormal neurobehavioral function, headache, altered mood states such as depression, fatigue, and tension, memory loss, pronounced deficits in balance and reaction time, dizziness, insomnia, overpowering fatigue, and reduced sense of smell.

 

Children are among the most susceptible to this poison gas. It is unacceptable for communities near oil refineries and many others to have to continue suffering the ill effects of H2S when the technology to control H2S emissions is available and affordable.

 

 EPA should address adverse H2S impacts based on evidence of harmful exposures in numerous communities and its toxicological effects at low concentrations such as non-cancer effects and emerging evidence that H2S is a genotoxic agent, meaning it damages DNA

[1]  http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1541/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2815

Link to monitors in St Bernard Parish

Ch Vista (Blue Bird Park)  http://airquality.deq.louisiana.gov/Data/Site/CHALMETTE%20VISTA/Date/2013-12-20

Ventura Drive (Valero Energy)  http://lena.providenceeng.com/Hourly.aspx

Meraux site (Joe Davies)  http://airquality.deq.louisiana.gov/Data/Site/MERAUX/Date/2013-12-20

 

“Since the respiratory tract is the major target organ of hydrogen sulfide toxicity, humans with asthma, and the elderly and young children with compromised respiratory function represent sensitive subpopulations.  Due to the serious toxic effects associated with exposure to high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide for very short durations, all exposure should be avoided.”   http://www.who.int/ipcs/publications/cicad/en/cicad53.pdf 

 

“The daily inhalation exposure to the human population that is likely to be without an appreciable risk of deleterious effects during a lifetime, the RfC, has been determined to be 0.002 mg/m3 or 1.4 ppb.” http://www.epa.gov/iris/toxreviews/0061tr.pdf

"As a member of the general public, you might be exposed to higher-than-normal levels of hydrogen sulfide if you live near a waste water treatment plant ....."    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/PHS/PHS.asp?id=387&tid=67

 

Health effects from chronic low-level exposure to hydrogen sulfide

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11339675

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and sour gas effects on the eye

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16650463

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pvc pipeline

perhaps the least hazardous of pipelines, a watering line is installed to irrigate newly planted holly bushes and  trees

Ohio Moms Rock

"Environmental activists and parents have called Disney's educational program “propaganda” for a controversial industry" and successfully demanded Disney stop its tour to elementary schools and science centers.  After pressure from moms and hard work by all  on petitions and social media campaigns, Disney withdrew from the program that is sponsored by the Ohio oil and gas industry. 

"The sole intent of the collaboration between Radio Disney and the nonprofit Rocking in Ohio educational initiative was to foster kids' interest in science and technology. Having been inadvertently drawn into a debate that has no connection with this goal, Radio Disney has decided to withdraw from the few remaining installments of the program," the statement read.

 

 

 

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/8/radio-disney-s-partnershipwithgasindustryinohiohassomereeling.html

 

 



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