Deborah Stinson Port Townsend City Council SURE does Love the Port Townsend Paper Mill. Why does Deborah Stinson turn a BLIND eye to pollution in the air and water of Port Townsend Washington, and NOW seems to be covering up a MAJOR Chemical Spill at the Port Townsend Paper Mill that is reported to have caused skin burns and other major health issues, yet Deborah Stinson is downplaying it, in order to protect the Port Townsend Paper Mill. Why?
Is Deborah Stinson being PAID Off by the Port Townsend Paper Mill?
Why in the world is Deborah Stinson covering up this ISSUE?
It is reported that several large trucks left the Port Townsend Paper Mill and took discovery road, then went to 4 corners, to Chimacum, Washington then down center road to avoid the main roadways with hazardous waste.
It seems that the Port Townsend Leader is AGAIN lying, avoiding, or covering for the Port Townsend Paper Mill as they pollute the air, pollute the water, create MASSIVE toxic sludge and move it to other towns, farms, playgrounds and more. The Port Townsend Leader mis-states FACTS over and over, ignores tips, will not print FACTS and is constantly protecting, or I say aiding and abetting the Port Townsend Mill to VIOLATE air and water quality LAWS and endanger the residents of Port Townsend Washington.
What kind of Financial Kickback is the PT Leader, the Port Townsend City Council and Deborah Stinson
getting for enabling the Port Townsend Paper Mill to ENDANGER the residents of Jefferson County, Port Townsend Washington?
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AMCOL Investor Relations, AMCOL International Corporation, makes the BIG Money from spewing TOXINS into the water and air of Port Townsend Washington, and sure seems to me to be ABOVE the LAW.
"Port Townsend Paper Corp., owned by Port Townsend Holdings, is operated by GoldenTree Asset Management, a New York-based equity investment company."
http://www.papermillwatch.com/2013/05/amcol-investor-relations-amcol.html
Washington Environmental Law - Dale Stahl and the Port Townsend Paper Mill Are NOT above the Law. Amcol International Corp. ACO is NOT above the Law.
http://www.papermillwatch.com/search?q=amcol
Got a Tip on connections with Amcol and the Port Townsend City Council Members? Or the Washington DOE? eMail me at SavvyBroker@Yahoo.com
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
"Port Townsend Paper Corporation created an Odor Survey Team during the summer of 1993. The purpose of the team was to determine the mill emission sources causing odors offensive to community residents."
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Local newspapers published information on the
project and a hot line was set up to take odor reports and complaints.
The team met with the callers to fill out an informational survey and ask them to take an odor sample test.
Five emission odors captured in Tedlar bags were compared to the perceived odors
experienced by the caller.
The compiled information will allow the mill to concentrate future efforts on the emission sources that have the greatest impact in the community.
Port Townsend Paper Corporation is a kraft mill and like other kraft mills is characterized
by malodorous organic sulfide gases. Over the years, numerous complaints have been
directed toward the mill concerning the mill odor.
In 1992 the Washington Department of Ecology held a series of public meetings and concluded that most townspeople are concerned with the odors caused by local pulp and paper mills. It was evident that few people knew what was causing the aroma or its impact on the community.
A survey team was organized to:
1. Identify odors
2. Identify odor sources
3. Register complaints and concerns
The identified odor sources could then be examined more closely and possible remedies
could be determined.
The P.T.P.C. project was modeled after the ITT Rayonier P.A. survey concluded in 1992.
Emission Sources Eight major odor emission sources were found. These odors were observed and investigated by the Odor Survey Team It was found that four of the eight odors were similar to each other so all four were grouped into one category.
This distinct odor was synonymous with the M&D digester. The M&D digester Esco valve vents are the largest and most pungent of the four sources with similar odors.
The remaining four distinct mill odor sources are: the power boiler, the recovery furnace,
the lime kiln, and the aeration stabilization basin (ASB). The emission sources from
which samples were taken for the survey are described in the following paragraphs.
M&D Digester.
The M&D digester is a continuous digester used to produce pulp. The digester is
operated under pressure while a rotating Esco valve is used to feed the sawdust into the
digester. As the valve rotates, some vapors from inside the digester are forced out
through the valve and escape to the atmosphere.
Included in this odor category is the brown stock washer vent, smelt dissolving tank vent
and the digester fill vent. Each of these sources smell similar to a very dilute sample
from the M&D digester vents.
Power Boiler
The power boiler uses hog fuel (bark and wood scraps not used in the pulping process) as
its primary fuel source to produce heat and steam for the mill. It also bums oil and
primary treatment sludge as supplementary fuel.
The combustion products from the firing chamber are directed through a wet scrubber to
remove the particulate and ash from the air. The extremely hot air passing through this
wet scrubber produces a large visible steam plume coming from the stack.
Recovery Furnace
95% of the pulping chemicals used to make kraft paper are recyc1ed within the recovery
furnace. Most of the sulfur containing compounds which enter the furnace are fully
oxidized and recovered for reuse in the process.
A trace of S02 is produced by this combustion process but the concentration of 10 to 50 ppm is well below the limit of 200 ppm set by the Washington Department of Ecology.
The new electrostatic precipitator, completed in May, 1993, charges and removes fine particulate matter from the recovery furnace emissions at over 98% efficiency. Total Reduced Sulfur (TRS) gases exiting the furnace are generally below 10 ppm
Lime Kiln
The lime kiln serves two functions for the mill. Its main purpose is to convert calcium
carbonate precipitate (obtained from the white liquor c1arifier) into calcium oxide using
high temperatures (2200° to 2400°F).
The calcium oxide is then used to produce white liquor. The lime kiln also serves as an incinerator for odor gases that the mill collects from other processes. Odor gas compounds are broken down and oxidized to form compounds that can be scrubbed form the exhaust using a Venturi scrubber system.
Aeration Stabilization Basin (ASB)
The ASB is a series of treatment channels that clean the water used in the pulp and paper
making process. This secondary or biological treatment is nothing more than a
duplication of nature's own purification process, except that it is carried out under
contained and controlled conditions at accelerated rates.
Under aerobic conditions, micro-organisms (mostly bacteria and fungi) consume oxygen to convert wastes into the ultimate end products of carbon dioxide and water.
The anaerobic bacteria take over and continue biological action producing methane and hydrogen sulfide.
Pulp and paper mill wastes are essentially non-toxic following this biological treatment.
There are two components for the peculiar ASB odor. For one, sulfur gases produced
from biological action is highly noticeable in low concentrations. Secondly, foul vapors
condensed in the mill get dissolved in the mill effluent. This condensate is transported to
the ASB where the mechanical aeration devices free the dissolved odor gases into the
atmosphere."
Source
"Port Townsend Paper Corporation Odor Survey Report
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/155832734/Port-Townsend-Paper-Corporation-Odor-Survey-Report
Is this Report Accurate?
Was this Report Truly Impartial?
Port Townsend Washington can and SHOULD pass an environmental bill of rights. Port Townsend Washington Environmental Bill of Rights ~ the TIME has Come. Time for the RESIDENTS of Port Townsend to STEP up and MAKE Law that STANDS up for their Rights to Clean Air and Clean Water per the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.
Port Townsend Washington Residents have a RIGHT to Clean Air, Water and Soil and to act responsible on what is leaving the County, such as TOXIC SLUDGE.
TIME for a PORT TOWNSEND BILL OF RIGHTS
"corporations and their leadership do not have special privileges
or powers under the law that supersede the community’s rights."
Santa Monica City Council passes environmental bill of rights.
"CITY HALL — The City Council approved a unique law this week that enshrined the rights of the environment and residents’ rights to clean air and water.
The ordinance, known as the Sustainability Bill of Rights, asserts that corporations and their leadership do not have special privileges or powers under the law that supersede the community’s rights.
It also requires that the Office of Sustainability and the Environment prepare a report every two years documenting progress on the Sustainable City Plan, an effort begun in the mid-1990s to create benchmarks and goals to make Santa Monica more environmentally friendly, and that City Hall hold a public hearing.
It also requires that the Office of Sustainability and the Environment prepare a report every two years documenting progress on the Sustainable City Plan, an effort begun in the mid-1990s to create benchmarks and goals to make Santa Monica more environmentally friendly, and that City Hall hold a public hearing.
Finally, and perhaps most controversially, some believe that the law gives residents the ability to sue a polluter themselves when one of those rights are violated, without waiting for City Hall or other agencies to get the ball rolling.
The ordinance was, in Councilmember Kevin McKeown’s words, a fundamental power shift away from business interests and toward the community that has not yet happened in the environmental movement.
“Unrestrained capitalism has extracted the good out of our environment in many, many cases. Here, for the first time, we as a city are taking a stand and saying we’re not going to let that happen anymore,” McKeown said.
“Unrestrained capitalism has extracted the good out of our environment in many, many cases. Here, for the first time, we as a city are taking a stand and saying we’re not going to let that happen anymore,” McKeown said.
The Sustainability Bill of Rights emerged from the Task Force on the Environment — consisting of a group of residents — after the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which further cemented the rights of corporations as individuals in American law. The court’s decision opened the doors to unlimited campaign spending on behalf of companies.
The law was also a reaction to the spread of fracking, a process of extracting fossil fuels from the ground that many environmentalists say is extremely damaging to the environment, poisoning groundwater and even causing earthquakes.
The City Council approved a resolution in January 2012 backing the concept of the Sustainability Bill of Rights, but the resolution had no teeth. Those in support of the law passed Tuesday feel the City Council’s vote changed that.
“The fact that it establishes individual environmental rights is very important,” said Mark Gold, former president of nonprofit Heal the Bay and associate director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Gold has spent much of his career fighting to save the environment from the negative impacts of human habitation on the Santa Monica Bay and other water ecosystems.
His primary tool was the Clean Water Act, a 1972 federal law that regulates quality standards for surface water, but the law lost effectiveness and involved arcane measurements that were difficult for members of the public to understand.
This ordinance finds strength in its return to basic environmental roots, Gold said.
Supporters of the Sustainability Bill of Rights believe that the law gives them the ability to sue polluters in court if City Hall does not do so. That could include what some call Santa Monica’s “groundwater wars,” with over a decade spent in court to get companies to clean up dangerous chemicals that had leached into the groundwater through buried gasoline storage tanks.
“That legal standing did not exist before,” said Cris Gutierrez, a member of the Task Force on the Environment.
It was carefully-crafted to prevent abuse, and cannot be used to protect every street tree or stop every development in the city, Gold said.
“The ability of an individual to sue the city because they don’t like a development approval, that’s not in there,” Gold said.
Whether residents will be able to file any kind of lawsuit may be up to the courts to decide.
Jeff Caufield, an environmental attorney with the Los Angeles firm Caufield & James, thought there might be some conflict if a resident filed a private suit or acted as “a private attorney general.”
“It will likely need to be litigated and a decision made by a court on this particular ordinance and language,” Caufield said.
In the meantime, Gold hopes that the ordinance will keep the environment front and center for policy makers, and be a model for other cities who want to take a stand on the environment.
“There is a precedent-setting nature to this that the city is very aware of,” Gold said."
This is amazing, a HUGE precedence. Communities EVERYWHERE should take this example and stand up for your RIGHT to Clean Air, Clean Water, and Clean Soil.
Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox says that Santa Monica Council Member "Kevin McKeown" is a modern day superhero, and the residents of Santa Monica that stood up for the rights of the environment and residents’ rights to clean air and water are HEROS every one of them.
Time to say NO to Corporate Greed and Yes to Clean Air, Organic Soil, Clean Water, and the RIGHT to breath clean air, drink clean water.
More Resource links to this story
Port Townsend Washington Environmental Bill of Rights
~ the TIME has Come.
More information Regarding the Port Townsend Paper Mill
PortTownsendPaperMill.com
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All written and Posted, alledged upon the knowledge and belief of Crystal Cox.
Does the Port Townsend Paper Mill produce ACID Rain? Is this allowed by LAW, being so close the Olympic Peninsula Rainforest, the only protected temperate rain forests in the Northern Hemisphere, the Hoh Rain Forest?
""Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
Properties
Causes respiratory illnesses and lung disease and is a significant component of smog.
Sources
A component of NOX (a smog-forming chemical). Results from burning fuels in utilities, industrial boilers, automobiles, and trucks.
Effects
Major pollutant that causes smog, acid rain, and contributes to PM2.5. Can harm humans and vegetation when concentrations are sufficiently high. May cause lung damage and illnesses of breathing passages and lungs.
Description
Nitrogen oxides (NOX) are a blend of multiple air pollutants that result from various combustion processes. The "x"; in NOX stands for one or more oxygen atoms connected to the nitrogen atom. NOXtypically occurs as nitrogen oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which are very commonly emitted in our everyday lives.
Sources include power plants, gasoline and diesel engines (cars, trucks, generators, lawnmowers and yard equipment, snowmobiles, power boats, etc), home furnaces (gas, oil, and wood), industrial processes, explosives, and fertilizers. NOX contributes to several air pollution problems.
One component of NOX that is considered a direct health risk is NO2, which is the actual NOX related pollutant with an assigned National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). It can cause respiratory illness and lung damage. High levels can cause edema, and prolonged high exposure can produce fatal lung damage.
NOX is a primary component to ozone (or smog) formation. Ozone forms when NOX and certain volatile organic compounds chemically react in the presence of strong sunlight (ultraviolet wavelengths). An oxygen atom is moved from NO2 to oxygen in the air, creating ozone (O3) – another criteria pollutant. Reducing emissions of NOXis critical to reducing ozone.
NOX is also a major contributor to acid rain (or acid deposition). After NOX is released by a source, it travels and chemically reacts in the atmosphere, eventually becoming ammonium nitrate or nitric acid.
Ammonium nitrate is a small particle (PM2.5, which is considered to be another criteria pollutant with its own NAAQS), and it also is a visibility-impairing pollutant.
Nitric acid is removed from the air through precipitation (rain, snow, etc.), settling of particles, and by condensation from the air onto surfaces, similar to the formation of dew.
Acid deposition damages our forests, lakes, and wetlands by robbing them of necessary nutrients and lowering the pH levels, often to levels below what native species can tolerate.
The end result of this process is not a void of wildlife, but rather a shifting of species, where a more tolerant species simply populates an area where native species once were dominant. Nitric acid accounts for about one-third of the acidity in precipitation in New Hampshire.
Another effect of NOX is the nitrification of lakes, ponds, estuaries, and other wetlands. Nitrogen acts as a fertilizer for plants, and when it is added to water, algae and other aquatic plants may multiply excessively, displacing other inhabitants of the wetland.
While NOX emission controls have been added to power plants and automobiles (catalytic converters), growth in energy demand and the amount of vehicle-miles-traveled have offset some of the benefits of the control measures. In New Hampshire, measuredNO2 levels have remained relatively stable over the last 20 years, and have shown a slight overall decline. New Hampshire is in attainment of the NO2 NAAQS on a state-wide basis."
Source of Above
http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/air/do/asab/apoc/criteria_pollutants.htm
Does the Port Townsend Paper Mill produce ACID Rain? Is this allowed by LAW, being so close the Olympic Peninsula Rainforest, the only protected temperate rain forests in the Northern Hemisphere, the Hoh Rain Forest.
Would the Jefferson County Health authorities, the Department of Ecology, the Forest Service, the EPA, and other governing bodies have you believe that Port Townsend Washington spewing a 1000 lbs of ammonia in the air a day, is not creating acid rain that affects the plants, animal, soil, farms, organic classification and the delicate balance of the Hoh Rain Forest?
Really? How can that be True.
I say its politics, lies, cover ups and Greed, but hey that's just my Opinion. Formed because I can READ. Sure seems like those government agencies know what is going on here. I mean come on the quilcene river is the responsiblity of the Olympic National Forest right? How can it be allowed to be filled with toxins and put into the bay, is the Olympic National Forest authorities not obligated to monitor this? If NOT then WHY ?
Does the Laws of the United States Apply to Port Townsend Paper, Port Townsend Holdings Co., Inc., to Amcol International? Are they even in violation of ANY laws?
“Unrestrained capitalism has extracted the good out of our environment in many, many cases. Here, for the first time, we as a city are taking a stand and saying we’re not going to let that happen anymore,”
Coming Soon, this Blog will Explore Amcol International, Port Townsend Paper Mill and any violations of the following laws, codes, and constitutional amendments.
No One is above the Law, not ANY EPA worker, Mill Owner, CEO, Commissioner, Health Inspector, Environmental director or authority, NO One.
You do not need to have an attorney to file criminal or civil complaints.
Duty of Care; Breach of Duty
Negligence Tort, Professional Negligence
Civil Rights Violation
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Quilcene River, Port Townsend Bay)
http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/FWATRPO.HTML
Clean Water Act
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/cwa.cfm?program_id=45
Clean Air Act
http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/
Bill of RIghts
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights
Environmental Quality Act
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966)
Marine Life and Habitat Laws
Washington State Constitution
http://www.leg.wa.gov/LAWSANDAGENCYRULES/Pages/constitution.aspx
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/
U.S. Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
No One is above the Law, not ANY EPA worker, Mill Owner, CEO, Commissioner, Health Inspector, Environmental director or authority, NO One.
You do not need to have an attorney to file criminal or civil complaints.
Coming Soon, Upon Knowledge and Belief of Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox, how the Port Townsend Mill is violating this laws, of course, IF THEY ARE. We shall soon find out.
Duty of Care; Breach of Duty
Negligence Tort, Professional Negligence
Civil Rights Violation
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Quilcene River, Port Townsend Bay)
http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/FWATRPO.HTML
Clean Water Act
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/cwa.cfm?program_id=45
Clean Air Act
http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/
Bill of RIghts
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights
Environmental Quality Act
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966)
Marine Life and Habitat Laws
Washington State Constitution
http://www.leg.wa.gov/LAWSANDAGENCYRULES/Pages/constitution.aspx
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/
U.S. Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
Could Jefferson County Washington Vote in their own Environmental Bill of Rights and DEMAND that, by LAW, they have a right to clean air and clean water?
Learn your RIGHTS, and MAKE those you VOTED into Office, OBEY the Law. If they do not, file Criminal or Civil charges against them. YOU HAVE THIS RIGHT.
This Town Did,
"The measure would amend the township's home rule charter to state that residents have rights to clean air and water, self-government and a sustainable energy future. "
Source
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/legal/small-town-in-centre-county-to-vote-on-local-environmental-bill-of-rights-660647/#ixzz2SWKEWaQE
Port Townsend Washington, Jefferson County Washington can vote in a local law, rule, charter that states that Port Townsend Washington residents have a legal right to clean air and water.
So why not DO IT?
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