Issues - Buckeye Paper Mill
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Buckeye Paper Mill
Buckeye Letter
The following letter and accompanying article were sent to us by Joy Ezell.
Joy writes: In the top 100 zip codes nationwide for cancer causing chemicals, Taylor County ranks 45th worst in the nation due to the amount of known cancer-causing chemicals being emitted into the air and water from the Buckeye pulp mill, according to the EPA's newly released 2005 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
Follow our case in the Division of Administrative Hearings
On November 22, 2005, citizens filed a petition for an administrative hearing on a new state permit that would allow Buckeye Florida to pipe pollution from its Taylor County mill into the Gulf of Mexico.
- See our November 22 press release.
- To see the case docket, go to: http://www.doah.state.fl.us/internet/
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- Type in 054580 and click on "Quick Docket."
- Then click on the docket tab.
- To see the Permit, Administrative Order, and the Final Order Establishing Alternative Dissolved Oxygen Criteria, please scroll to the bottom of the page.
- Type in 054580 and click on "Quick Docket."
- Here is the direct link to a pdf of our amended petition, filed on January 17, 2006: Amended petition at www.doah.state.fl.us
- Fact sheet on the proposed pipe.
Dirty Rotten Scandal on the Fenholloway
Toxic chemicals and dead fish
vs.
Clean technology and a thriving economy
By Linda Young, Director
Clean Water Network of Floirda, Inc.
Linda Young spoke about Buckeye and the Fenholloway River at the Big Bend Sierra Club meeting, August 22, 2005.
- View the Powerpoint presentation used in her talk.
For more than 50 years, dark, deadly toxic chemicals have poured from a pulp and paper mill into the once clean and beautiful Fenholloway River. A Florida river that was known for its health-giving springs became an artery of destruction to underwater streams and aquifers and even to the Gulf of Mexico. For decades citizens have battled the mill to no avail - asking only that it take a modest part of the millions of dollars in profits coming from the mill and reinvest it in pollution prevention. After citizens spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in time proving that the mill can afford to clean up its pollution, the state and federal governments now admit that the clean-up is affordable and feasible but still insist that the mill should be able to simply move its toxic, gender-bending waste to the Gulf of Mexico. A permit to pipe 60 million gallons per day of dark, smelly, dangerous industrial waste to the Big Bend Seagrass Preserve will be proposed by the state DEP in the next few months unless the citizens of Florida rise up and stop it.
American Canoe Assoc. -vs- EPA
American Canoe Association lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Delay in Permit Renewal Hearing.
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