Comment: People in Roday are worried about trucks carrying coal and the dust! Southside Virginia will be poison from trucks carrying uranium rocks all over Virginia! No to Uranium mining!
AP
Published: September 3, 2009
RICHMOND — Several issues related to coal-fired power plants are on the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board’s agenda.
The board meets Thursday morning in Richmond.
One of the issues is the health effects of coal dust from trucks traveling through the community of Roda in southwest Virginia.
The Department of Environ-mental Quality has looked into the problem and will present data from its air monitors.
The board also will hear updates on coal plants that are being built in Wise and Surry counties. The DEQ adjusted a mercury emissions permit for the Wise County plant Wednesday to meet a judge’s objections.
http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/article/Va_regulators_to_discuss_coal_issues/42612/
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Pandora uranium mine permit is up for comment
Comments: Is this Virginia's future? Dusty trucks hauling uranium particles down our country roads, open pit uranium mining will be blowing up the hills and dust going everywhere!! In addition, the uranium mill will be hauling yellowcakes down the terrible, dangerous Rt. 29 and Rt. 58, going to Kentucky!!! No to Uranium Mining and Milling in Virginia!Environment » Public input is sought on the air-quality effects.
By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
A public input period is under way to comment on an air-quality permit for the Pandora uranium mine in La Sal, San Juan County.
"It's really just dotting I's and crossing T's," said Ron Hochstein, president and chief executive officer of Canada-based Denison Mines Corp.
Maung Maung, an engineer with the Utah Division of Air Quality, said the biggest concern for the state is the amount of dust that could be created with trucks hauling ore from the mine. The company, which is bringing the historic mine back on line, is required to keep the dust down with water.
Under the proposed permit, emissions are limited to 9.8 tons per year of PM10, .5 tons of nitrogen oxides, .043 tons of sulphur dioxide, .11 tons of carbon monoxide and .04 tons of volatile organic compounds. Radon emissions are governed by federal law.
"They're just mining it and shipping it off to where they are going to process it," Maung said.
Moab-based Uranium Watch has requested a hearing. Director Sarah Fields raised a concern about the proximity of venting to an elementary school.
The air-quality office is still looking for an appropriate time and place to hold the hearing, probably in early July. The deadline for written comments is July 3.
fahys@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12556756
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Mining will bring asthma - GP claims
Comment: now they want to do mt top removal in pretty England countryside plus open pit uranium mining equipment will do the same thing - co2 & dust!
Thousands of Telford children could suffer from asthma due to a double danger of fallout from a proposed opencast coal mine, it was claimed today.
The exhaust fumes from heavy machinery and dust thrown up by excavations would get into the lungs of people living nearby according to Dr Dick van Steenis, a retired GP.
And most at risk would be residents living in a fallout zone around the site, including Wellington, Hadley, Ketley and Dawley, he said.
Dr van Steenis said he would be making the point at the public inquiry which started yesterday at Gray’s Hotel, in Telford town centre, and is set to last several weeks.
UK Coal is seeking the go-ahead to extract 900,000 tonnes of coal from fields and woodland at Huntington Lane, between New Works and Little Wenlock, over three years before restoring the site.
It says the scheme would create 90 jobs, boost the local economy and help to meet Britain’s energy needs.
Opposition is being led by Telford & Wrekin Council, which claims the noise, dust and vibration from blasting would cause disturbance in a quiet, rural area at the foot of The Wrekin.
Dr van Steenis, of Sarn, near Newtown, an international campaigner on clean air issues, will give evidence on May 19 for objectors’ group Friends of the Ercall.
Speaking after listening to yesterday afternoon’s session, he said he would challenge UK Coal’s evidence that the mine would not affect public health.
He added that schools in Telford already had problems with pupils suffering from asthma and that this would “only make things worse”.
The inquiry continues.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Dust from coal trucks poses Appalachian health threat -- study
Comment: what about uranium trucks leaving Cole's Hill going to Kentucky?
April 24, 2009
By ROBIN BRAVENDER, Greenwire
Coal trucks rumbling through neighborhoods in southwest Virginia are trailing dust clouds that violate federal pollution standards, according to a report that advocacy groups released yesterday.
The study (pdf) conducted by North Carolina State University for the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and the Sierra Club analyzed airborne dust along the roads of Roda in Wise County, where trucks haul coal from several mining operations.
The trucks track coal, mud and debris from the mines to the road, where it dries and turns to dust that is stirred up by other vehicles. That dust coats houses and is thought to cause respiratory and other health ailments, researchers found.
A two-week study last summer of two locations along Roda Road found that dust concentrations on roads near the mining operations far exceeded the national air pollution standard.
At one site, 10 of 12 samples had dust exceeding the federal standard, including one that was more than three times the limit. Six of 12 samples at another site also had dust exceeding the national standard.
Coal dust in Roda could suggest a larger problem throughout Appalachia, and researchers are calling for further investigation across the region.
Coarse particulate matter, or dust, can cause respiratory problems, increased asthma attacks, and aggravation of lung or heart disease in some sensitive populations, according to U.S. EPA.
"I am very concerned that the coal dust may be harming my health," said Ronnie Willis, a retired underground coal miner who lives on Roda Road near the entrance to a mountaintop-removal coal mine. "I have been diagnosed with emphysema and black lung, and the coal dust exacerbates my condition."
Scientists and community members plan to present their findings to the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board and the state Department of Environmental Quality today. They are urging the board and the DEQ to conduct their own dust investigation and to order mining companies to take precautions to prevent particulate matter from becoming airborne.
"We have believed for some time that the quality of the air we breathe is in jeopardy," said Kathy Selvage, vice president of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards. "We urge the Air Board and DEQ to take action to reduce this threat to human health and welfare."
DEQ has yet to review the study, DEQ spokesman William Hayden said. "Once the report is evaluated, we will be able to determine what steps are appropriate to take."
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/24/24greenwire-dust-from-coal-trucks-poses-appalachian-health-10670.html
April 24, 2009
By ROBIN BRAVENDER, Greenwire
Coal trucks rumbling through neighborhoods in southwest Virginia are trailing dust clouds that violate federal pollution standards, according to a report that advocacy groups released yesterday.
The study (pdf) conducted by North Carolina State University for the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and the Sierra Club analyzed airborne dust along the roads of Roda in Wise County, where trucks haul coal from several mining operations.
The trucks track coal, mud and debris from the mines to the road, where it dries and turns to dust that is stirred up by other vehicles. That dust coats houses and is thought to cause respiratory and other health ailments, researchers found.
A two-week study last summer of two locations along Roda Road found that dust concentrations on roads near the mining operations far exceeded the national air pollution standard.
At one site, 10 of 12 samples had dust exceeding the federal standard, including one that was more than three times the limit. Six of 12 samples at another site also had dust exceeding the national standard.
Coal dust in Roda could suggest a larger problem throughout Appalachia, and researchers are calling for further investigation across the region.
Coarse particulate matter, or dust, can cause respiratory problems, increased asthma attacks, and aggravation of lung or heart disease in some sensitive populations, according to U.S. EPA.
"I am very concerned that the coal dust may be harming my health," said Ronnie Willis, a retired underground coal miner who lives on Roda Road near the entrance to a mountaintop-removal coal mine. "I have been diagnosed with emphysema and black lung, and the coal dust exacerbates my condition."
Scientists and community members plan to present their findings to the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board and the state Department of Environmental Quality today. They are urging the board and the DEQ to conduct their own dust investigation and to order mining companies to take precautions to prevent particulate matter from becoming airborne.
"We have believed for some time that the quality of the air we breathe is in jeopardy," said Kathy Selvage, vice president of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards. "We urge the Air Board and DEQ to take action to reduce this threat to human health and welfare."
DEQ has yet to review the study, DEQ spokesman William Hayden said. "Once the report is evaluated, we will be able to determine what steps are appropriate to take."
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/24/24greenwire-dust-from-coal-trucks-poses-appalachian-health-10670.html
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