Concerned Citizens Around Murphy is an association of residents whose members are dedicated to revitalize St. Bernard Parish and renew the environment through public participation and resident advocacy.
PBF Energy's Chalmette refinery fire Saturday January 21 2023 reportedly was contained and extinguished quickly. There were no reports of injury. Nearby residents question why the refinery alarms were not sounded to alert the community.
PBF Energy's Chalmette plant fire January 21 2023 Photo Credit @nickreimann
PUBLIC NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING
AND REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENT
On PBF Energy's Chalmette Renewables
proposed Title V Part 70 Permit
& associated Environment Assessment Survey
November 9, 2021 6pm
Comments Due 4:30pm November 10, 2021
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12914990
Tuesday November 9 2021 6pm
St. Bernard Parish Council Chambers Building
8201 West Judge Perez Blvd, Chalmette LA
LDEQ to conduct public comment hearing (not a question and answer format) on PBF Energy's Chalmette Refining LLC Renewables Project proposed Initial Title V Part 70 Operating Air Permit & associated Environment Assessment Survey
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12914990
Comments Due Wednesday November 10 2021 4:30pm
All comments should reference AI 1376 Permit Number 3177-VO Activity Number 20210010
Online Comment submittal form at LDEQ's Public Notice website
If you wish to submit your comment anonymously, do not want to provide your mailing address, or if your comment exceeds character/size limit or has multiple attachments, you may submit your comment by personal delivery, U.S. mail, email, or fax.
Delivery may be made to the drop-box at 602 N 5th St., Baton Rouge, LA 70802. U.S. mail may be sent to LDEQ, Public Participation Group, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313.
Emails may be submitted to DEQ.PUBLICNOTICES@LA.GOV and faxes sent to (225) 219-3309.
Persons submitting comments using the online form or who wish to receive notice of the final permit action must include a complete mailing address.
All comments should reference AI 1376 Permit Number 3177-VO Activity Number 20210010
COMMENT DEADLINE 4:30pm Wednesday November 10, 2021
Materials Associated with Proposed Permit 3177-VO
LDEQ EDMS AI 1376 document 12869722 dated August 27, 2021
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12869722
Associated Environmental Assessment Survey (EAS)
LDEQ EDMS AI 1376 document 12740811 dated May28, 2021
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12740811
other information
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12704490
Notice to Local Public Officials, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, and EPA Region VI
https://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view?doc=12917619
Public Participation
http://www.cleanwatershedcampaign.org/public-participation/
Over the years, this would be a familiar model of public participation. If
the panel was critical, its life was usually brief. Citizen oversight of one of
Michigan’s most powerful Fortune 500 companies would not be popular with
regulatory authorities, elected officials or more importantly, the Dow Chemical
Company......
Is this yet another exercise in futility or is it the finality so many of us
hope has arrived?
Do we participate in good faith? Eight years of Dow’s tactics of denial and
delay, eight years of frustration at the state’s impotence. Can the federal
government succeed? Can
the CAG succeed? Each individual active in this clean up will have to answer
these questions for themselves. I for one am not prepared to let any
opportunity to hold Dow and the EPA accountable slip away.
Terry Miller, Chairman Lone Tree Council
Thy Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors House
http://concernedcitizensaroundmurphy.blogspot.com/p/turner-v-murphy.html
Semi Annual Reports on Permit Exceedances
http://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view.aspx?doc=8255329&ob=yes&child=yes
http://edms.deq.louisiana.gov/app/doc/view.aspx?doc=8263650&ob=yes&child=yes
We want what any other St. Bernard Parish neighborhood would want; clean air, clean water, and uncontaminated soil; and for families and friends to live peaceful lives. As we restore our homes and revitalize our community we are preserving the integrity of our residential neighborhoods and improving our quality of life.
We join with our neighbors for neighborhoods to effect the ever changing decisions that empact our community by encouraging citizen particpation and providing advocacy for all residents who are committed to return, rebuild and remain in St Bernard Parish Louisiana
