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Red Dust worries residents near US metals plants

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posted on Oct, 22 2010 @ 12:58 PM
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Red Dust worries residents near US metals plants


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The dust, along with the red mud lakes that kiss Lavaca Bay, are reminders that the small town of Point Comfort and its Alcoa alumina factory are not far — industry-wise — from Hungary, where a red mud reservoir burst earlier this month, unleashing a massive flood of caustic red sludge that covered nearby villages and killed at least nine people.

Many say the disaster in Hungary is unlikely to happen here. But the United States' three alumina refineries — two in Texas and one in Louisiana — have their own pollution worries.

In both cases, much of the pollution comes from the was
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posted on Oct, 22 2010 @ 12:58 PM
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When disaster happens in a 2nd World Nation we always seem to think that it couldn't happen here in a 1st World Nation.

However, we have three locations in the United States that are just at risk as the toxic disaster that occurred in Hungary

Just for the fact that these three US plants have had 40 regulatory violations over the course of the past 5 years should be making Americans very concerned.

Point Comfort specifically has already been an environmental and toxic disaster for the past 50 years and counting, as is currently the largest aquatic Superfund site. Although the EPA has demanded that Alcoa cleanup the thousands of pounds of toxic mercury that has leaked over the decades into the bay, poisoning fish, wildlife, and residents living nearby, the EPA recognizes that cleanup is so complex and difficult that it will take many more decades before toxicity levels drop to ranges that are considered safe.

How many times are we told that big industries are "safe" and "in our better interests" when the reality is they pose a significant health risk to nearby residents, even those living several towns over, as well as to the environment.

Do we really want an incident like what happened in Hungary to happen here?

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posted on Oct, 22 2010 @ 01:12 PM
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We think we got problems with a little red dust that toxic sludge is the real nasty sheet. The epa isn't going to help without it costing us alot of tax payers dollars so their top guys can get rich. EPA scam to get more government dollars!



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