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And the EPA wants to cut down the emissions. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, and not any Southern Nevada news outlets so far, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to place caps on the amounts of mercury that gold mines throughout the U.S.–and that means mostly Nevada–can spew into the air. The costs of the clean up [...] No doubt everybody's breathing a sigh of relief over the news that Nevada's reduced its emission of toxic crap by 10%! Those of us who can still breathe, anyways. Which probably is fewer than you'd think given that Nevada still leads the nation in mercury emissions, thanks to the foreign conglomerates here stealing our precious metals without much [...] Thanks to a comment from NVMojo which led me to an interesting link about Idaho and Nevada Reservoirs: Fish tissue samples taken from rainbow trout collected from four Idaho Mercury Jim’s favorite brain-cell destroying heavy metal is showing up in a rather unexpected place: the smokestacks of crematoriums. The Boston Globe reports that the mercury-laced dental fillings of the dead are vaporized in the furnaces of crematoriums and seep out their smokestacks. The emissions account for only 1 percent of mercury emissions in the U.S., [...] More news from Utah about more fish you’d better not eat cuz they’re full of mercury. (SLTrib) Don’t like eating poisonous fish, silly Utahns? Well, just you wait until we get those Ely coal-fired plants spewing out more mercury. Why, them fish’ll be oozing the stuff. And if you don’t like it, silly Utahns, why don’t you just [...] Oh, coal is so clean, clean, clean! You see, even if you try to capture the nastiness coming out of those coall-fired plant smoke stacks, nastiness they call "fly ash," well, you just dump that crud in a pond and you’re done! Problem is, all the nastiness in the fly ash leaches out and contaminates every [...] All parties, including the Nevada Conservation League and the Great Basin Mining Watch, are behind AB 115 which would require more monitoring of the mercury Nevada mines can spew. (NA, RGJ, AP) State Assemblyperson Sheila Leslie had to drop a provision requiring mines to cut mercury emissions by 25% before 2012 because our Mining Overlords threatened [...] The RGJ and AP report on how Jerritt Canyon Gold Mine is spewing mercury like a Governor hurling after drinking too much with his campaign manager and groping a cocktail waitress. Apparently mercury dust is leaking from the ore-drying system before it gets to filters designed to catch the stuff. The Nevada Division of Environment Protection ordered [...] Great Basin Mine Watch has posted the new report about mercury releases from Nevada gold mines. Lisa Mascaro did an excellent overview in the Sun yesterday despite the obligatory commentary from the Nevada Mining Association, Death Watch Division. Breath deep, denizens of Gibbons’ Country: At three of the 10 mines Today’s word is "spew." Shout it out every time you see it!! I was shocked to see a report in the RJ about what a bad idea it is to build coal-fired power plants throughout the West, especially in the Bidness section which is usually reserved for soothing flattery of our corporate overlords so that they have [...] |
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