Issue: #33 DATE:
May 30, 2014
OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ALONG WITH FRAC SAND MINING INCREASES IN SCOPE!
Attention
Dunn and Chippewa Co. Citizens:
There
will be a meeting in Colfax at The Grapevine Senior Center, 121
South Main Street, on Monday, June 2nd at 7:00 p.m.
The proposed 2000 acre mine, wet plant and rail transfer site in the Town of Howard in Chippewa County on
the border with the Town of Colfax in Dunn COUNTY will
be the topic of discussion. The purpose
of the meeting is to share ideas and strategies. We are hoping to have
people from Cooks Valley and
the town of Howard and
anyone else living in Dunn and Chippewa Counties
attend. This will be a large frac sand mining operation and many will be
impacted by the associated issues. Please pass on the information to anyone
who might be interested. Source of information: Willem Gebben, Colfax,
WI 715.962.3660
Ted Auch,
Fractracker
AIR QUALITY HEARINGS
IMPORTANT! Please write, please
attend hearings!
1.The Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources Air Quality Division will hold an AIR QUALITY Hearing for Hi Crush Sand:
On Monday, June 23, 2014 at 1 pm
Trempealeau County Governmental Center
Tremplo Room (L15)
36245
Main Street
Whitehall, WI 54773
ALL
RESIDENTS OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY ARE URGED TO
ATTEND! DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE PERMIT ARE
AVAILABLE ONLINE OR FROM THE DNR. ASK FOR
MONITORING AT THE MEETING OR VIA MAIL. (SEE THE
ATTTACHED NOTICE!)
2.The Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources Air Quality Division has received a request for an Air Quality Permit
for Superior Silica Sands in Barron County. No hearing date has been set because
no one has requested a hearing. Barron County residents must request a hearing! (SEE ATTACHMENT) Interested persons wishing to submit written comments
on the application or DNR’s review of it or wishing to request a public hearing
should do so within 30 days of publication of this notice. Posting and Public
Comment Deadline dates can also be found on “Air permit public notices” web
page located at http://dnr.wi.gov/cias/am/amexternal/public_notices.aspx.
Comments or request for hearing
should be sent to: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, West Central
Region Air Program, La Crosse Area Office, 3550 Mormon Coulee Road, La
Crosse, WI
54601. Attn.: Michael Ross.
If a hearing is requested,
the requester shall indicate their interest in the permit and the reasons why a
hearing is warranted. Information on the public commenting and hearing process
is available at http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/AirPermits/Process.html.
It is imperative that air quality hearings be
requested and people be heard not only to discuss the permit but to also
request air quality monitoring and citizen protection.
3. The Department of Natural Resources Air Quality Division
will has received a request for an Air Quality Permit for INDIANHEAD PLATING FOR
THE ADDITION OF 7 CHROME PLATING TANKS. (SEE
ATTACHMENT)
Interested persons wishing to
submit written comments on the application or DNR’s review of it or wishing to request a public hearing should do so
within 30 days of publication of this notice. Posting and Public Comment
Deadline dates can also be found on “Air permit public notices” web page
located at http://dnr.wi.gov/cias/am/amexternal/public_notices.aspx. Comments
or request for hearing should be sent to:
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, West Central Region Air Program, LaCrosse Area Office, 3550 Mormon
Coulee Road, LaCrosse, WI 54601. Attn.: Michael Ross.
If a hearing is requested, the requester shall
indicate their interest in the permit and the reasons why a hearing is
warranted. Information on the public commenting and hearing process is
available at http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/AirPermits/Process.html.
OIL TRAINS AFFECTING MANY STATES
THE ARTICLES BELOW PROVIDE
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You will find the information below pretty
shocking. It shows the linkages between the tar sands, Bakken Crude Oil, and
oil from the East to West Coast via rails, terminals, etc. It is
not complete but we have discovered more terminals along the way for both CP
and BNSF. Many of you are connected to hydraulic fracturing, frac
sand mining, processing facilities, terminals, rails etc. Overlay this
activity with the pipeline activity and you will realize there would be few
people not impacted by the dirty oil industry in some way. (Guy Wolf)
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
28 May
2014
Contact:
New
Report Outlines the Rise of Crude-by-Rail in North America
First
Major Analysis of Booming Bomb Train Industry
Today Oil
Change International released the first major exposé of the burgeoning
crude-by-rail industry in North America, detailing where crude trains are being
loaded and unloaded, how many oil trains are crossing the North
American continent, and what companies are involved.
“This
analysis shows just how out of control the oil industry is in North America today. Regulators are unable to
keep up with the industry’s expansion-at-any-cost mentality, and
public safety is playing second fiddle to industry profits,” said Lorne
Stockman, Research Director of Oil Change International and author of the
report.
“This is
what the All of the Above Energy Strategy looks like – a runaway train
headed straight for North American communities,” Stockman said.
The
report shows that there are currently over 230 crude-by-rail terminals in Canada and the United States either in operation, expanding,
under construction or planned.
Today,
one million barrels of crude oil per day is loaded and unloaded on the
North American rail network, meaning roughly 135 trains of 100 cars each
are moving dangerous crude oil each day through the continent. But if
used at full capacity, existing loading and unloading terminals could
handle 3.5 times more crude-by-rail traffic and by 2016 that capacity
could grow to over 5 times current levels.
“Communities
are already waking up to the dangers of oil trains barreling through their
backyards, with spills, explosions and derailments happening all too
often. This report and online tool will help provide the critical
information that’s been sorely missing in order to shine a light on what’s
really going on, and to help stop the runaway train of crude-by-rail
in its tracks before more damage is done,” Stockman said.
The oil industry
is simultaneously pushing both new pipelines and increased crude-by-rail
on the North American public and recent pipeline spills and train accidents show
that the neither is safe. Spills from both transport methods are on the
rise.
This
report comes ahead of a nation-wide week of action planned for July 6 – 13
in opposition to oil by rail organized by Oil Change International,
ForestEthics, 350.org, the
Sierra Club, residents of Lac-Mégantic, and a number of other
organizations. See more at www.stopoiltrains.org
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WORKER DEATHS
On Workers Memorial Day, a new post on The Pump Handle about
the second worker fatality of 2014 for Canada's oil sands company, Suncor:
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2014/04/28/second-2014-worker-fatality-at-suncor-alberta-oil-sands-facility-highlights-alarming-industry-death-rate/
The industry, according to records available through Alberta Occupational
Health and Safety, suggest the provinces oil and gas extraction industry –
which Alberta's energy agency says provides 1 in 16 of the province's jobs –
has an alarmingly high rate of occupational fatalities -- on average over the
past five years, about a third of those incidents on record with Alberta OHS.
Alberta is where most of Canada's
oil reserves are located and where oil sands extraction was pioneered.
Please feel free to share and repost, and thanks as always for reading ~
Lizzie
Elizabeth Grossman
office & cell: 503-704-5637
Twitter: lizzieg1
skype: lizzie.grossman
We don’t always hear about worker deaths; and certainly we have no
way of knowing of citizen health issues of those living and working around
mines, processing plants, and trans-load facilities, but it is atrocious to
know that particulates are frequently being reported by citizens at their
residences both in the City and the rural areas at distances from the
facilities. We ask for transparency in reporting all deaths related to the
mining industry!
.
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Good news concerning the Joslyn Mine in Alberta, Canada…
“Joslyn is
facing the same challenge that most of the industry worldwide is in the sense
that the costs are continuing to inflate when the oil price and specifically
the netbacks from the oil sands are remaining stable at best,” he said. That is squeezing margins and “cannot be sustainable
in the long-term.”
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New York Fracking Opponents call for a
moratorium of 3-5 years!
Have your property values decreased? See the attached for assistance
in working through assessment values with local/county/state officials!
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