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| Refinery Emissions ignored by CARB, nightly air pollution |
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According to their own "study", where ARB
inventories the pollution they failed to stop,
http://www.arb.ca.gov/app/emsinv/emseic1_query.php
?F_DIV=-4&F_YR=2006&F_SEASON=A&SP=2007&F_AREA=CA
The "Total Organic Gases", mostly HxCx, released
statewide are 5,690.77 tons per DAY (TPD), with
Reactive Organic Gases (the really bad stuff) at
2,321.39 TPD.
More importantly, SOx (future Sulfuric Acid) and
NOx (future Nitric acid) emissions (SOx and NOx)
total 304.26 TPD and 3,557.70 TPD, respectively.
That's pretty bad, and much of it is due to
on-road pollution from Internal Combustion ("IC")
cars.
What's even worse is the concentration around
refineries:
Reactive organic gases of 134.5 TPD, with 13.71
TPD of Carbon Monoxide, 9.31 TPD of potential
Nitric Acid ("NOx") and 42.5 TPD of potential
Sulfuric Acid ("SOx").
From the AQMD presentation in Wilmington, their
hope is that "meteorological conditions" will
carry away the pollution, moving it to poison more
people over a wider area.
To put things in perspective, each molecule of
Carbon Monoxide (CO) complexes with a Hemoglobin
molecule (red blood cell) just as Oxygen (O2)
does; but CO, unlike O2, won't let go.
http://www.edinformatics.com/interactive_molecules
/carbon_monoxide.htm
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/coftsht.html
So essentially, each molecule of CO destroys one
red blood cell, lowering the effective Oxygen
content of the blood, decreasing the respiratory
ability, and increasing the danger of asphixiation
to those suffering from pernicious anemia,
asthma, or low red-blood-cell count. Essentially,
CO operates exactly the same as Hydrogen Cyanide
(HCN), each CN radical destroys one red blood
cell.
Now how many molecules of CO are there in 13 tons
of CO? Quite a lot. In each gram-mole of CO,
there are 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
molecules of CO, that's 28 grams.
Yes, in each OUNCE (about 27 grams) of CO there
are that many CO molecules, 6 times ten to the
23rd power, each one hungry to take out a red
blood cell in kids lungs, lowering their
respiratory ability and helping kill the elderly.
Now what about friendly-sounding NOx? Well, NOx
stands for OXIDES OF NITROGEN, which include NO
and NO2, which form eventually anhydrous NITRIC
ACID, and there's quite a lot of it in 9.31 tons
of NOx. In the presence of Ozone, sunlight and
HxCx, very bad acids are formed, which are "bad
for those with respiratory problems". And if you
don't have any, you soon will have some.
http://www.raypak.com/lownoxtech.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_oxide
The same devils' brew occurs with SOx, which are
Sulfurous and Sulfuric radicals, which form in the
presence of water both Sulfurous and Sulfuric
acid. The lower oxidation state can be converted,
in the presence of Ozone and sunlight, into the
sulfuric radical, which forms plain old Sulfuric
Acid when it hits water, such as is found in lung
tissue. These are not good for lungs, we might
suspect. In the presence of Ozone and HxCx, SOx
again forms some very bad things.
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/CHEMWEEK/Ozone/ozone.h
tml (Oxidizing Nitrous to Nitric is given as an
example, but the same holds for Sulfurous to
Sulfuric)
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn07/wn07-3
/wn07-302.html
Now the problem is the concentration. Around
refineries, the prevailing wind blows toward
nearby residents, who bear an inordinate share of
the burden for petroleum refining. But even for
those farther away, the refineries are a big part
of the problem, and have no place in the air
basin.
But ARB and AQMD just ignore these problems,
dismissing them as "NOx" and "SOx".
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| Crane Collapses at Houston Refinery, Killing 4 |
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PlusCrane Collapses at Houston Refinery, Killing
4Crane Collapses at Houston Refinery, Killing 4The
Associated PressThere's no early clue about what
caused Friday's crane collapse at a Houston oil
refinery. Four workers were killed and seven
others injured. (July 18)[Notes:SUPER: Houston,
TX] [Notes:SOT: MOS "It's real difficult. I mean
it's you know you're tight with all these
guys.]Emotions were raw Friday--- at the site of
this massive crane collapse in Houston---
[Notes:Jim Roecker LyondellBasell] [Notes:SOT: I
am very sorry to report that as a result of this
incident ---- 4 workers have bene killed and
several others were injured..we believe that at
least seven have been injured]Investigators
say----this twisted pile of steel ---was one of
the nation's largest mobile cranes.There's no
early clue about what caused the collapse the
LyondellBasell refinery- BUT video cameras around
the plant could give some idea of what went wrong.
[Notes:Omero Longoria / Asst. Fire Chief/ Houston
Fire PD] [Notes:SOT: there's a lot of debris ---
a lot of concrete---right now---we've accounted
for everyone ----we're working with osha --and
we're going to assist them if need be...]butt to
[Notes:Jim Roecker LyondellBasell] [Notes:SOT:
very sad day for us here at the refinerey---our
hearts and prayers go out to all the have suffered
a loss]Three of the injured were treated and
released at the scene.The crane had not been
scheduled to do any work until next week, but a
company spokesman says its engine *was* idling
after it hit the ground. [Notes:SOT MOS: I mean,
you know, they were competent guys. They knew what
they were doin and nobody knows what happened."]
___ ___, The Associated Press.
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| Firewater 10-25-98 "Refinery" and "Isle of Dogs" |
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Firewater
10-25-98
Refinery from Get Off the Cross... and Isle of
Dogs from the Lp The Ponzi Scheme
Band Website firewater.tv
Band Members HAVE INCLUDED: TOD A: Vocals & Bass
(Cop Shoot Cop) JENNIFER CHARLES: Vocals (Elysian
Fields) DUANE DENISON: Guitar (Jesus Lizard) YUVAL
GABAY: Drums & Percussion (Soul Coughing) KURT
HOFFMAN: Saxophone (They Might Be Giants) GEORGE
JAVORI: Drums (Shivaree) OREN KAPLAN: Guitar
(Gogol Bordello) ORI KAPLAN: Sex-o-phone (Balkan
Beat Box) JIM KIMBALL: Drums (Laughing Hyenas)
DANA LEONG: Trombone (World Tribe) TAMIR MUSKAT:
Drums & Production (Balkan Beat Box, Big Lazy)
DAVID OUIMET: Piano, Organ (Swans, Motherhead Bug)
BRITTA PHILLIPS: Vocals (Luna, Dean & Britta) HAHN
ROWE: Violin (Foetus, Hugo Largo) PAUL WALLFISCH:
Piano, Organ (Botanica)
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| Living under a refinery in Curacao |
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Jun. 30 - The Isla refinery in Curacao provides
jobs and pollution.The refinery has been leased bu
Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA since 1985.
Norbert George of the Humane Care Foundation says
Venezuela is not living up to the theme of social
responsibility espoused by Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Tags : Curacao refinery Venezuela Reuters |
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