P&G-Buckeye Secret Agreement Restraining Order

[hope@igc.apc.org (Joy Towles)]

>News on the on-going fight over the Fenholloway River/P&G-Buckeye/dioxin
>pipeline plan...........we're certain the pulp and paper polluters will
>eventually get the message (Stop Chlorine, Save Jobs) but probably only
>after much more profuse bleeding of their huge profits.........if they
>only knew how dumb the pulp and paper industry public relations dudes
>prove themselves to be time after time, how we won't quit, and how right
>we are.....let's just keep working on that.  The sweetest thing about this
>is that the local mill's PR flack himself actually invited the canoers on
>a trip down this stinking black river, they gladly went on the trip with
>him, and were totally appalled - not at his slick PR techniques, but at
>how he could have made such a silly mistake......his work was much less
>difficult back when the mill was still Procter & Gamble's dirty little
>secret................
>
>>November 20, 1998
>>
>>              Canoe group seeks action
>>
>>              Sun staff report
>>
>>              Canoe enthusiasts are seeking a court injunction to stop state
>>              environmental officials from signing a short-term
>>              pollution-control agreement with the Buckeye Technologies
>>              cellulose mill in Perry.
>>
>>      The American Canoe Association filed a petition for a restraining
>>              order in a Leon County court Wednesday, asking the court to
>>              stop the Department of Environmental Protection from signing
>>              the agreement, which critics say was illegally negotiated in
>>              secret.
>>
>>              The agreement would require Buckeye to make certain process
>>              changes to improve the quality of its wastewater while other
>>              changes are studied.
>>
>>              The canoe group and other Buckeye critics say the agreement
>>              does not require the mill to make the changes necessary to clean
>>              up the Fenholloway River and will pave the way for a return of a
>>              controversial pipeline plan.
>>
>>              Negotiations began in March after the Environmental Protection
>>              Agency halted plans to pipe the wastewater away from the river,
>>              where it is now discharged, to a point near the river mouth.
>>
>>              EPA, DEP and Buckeye officials met in Atlanta last week to
>>              begin hashing out final details. Buckeye officials said an
>>              agreement was imminent. EPA officials said there will be time
>>              for public comment.
>>
>>              The canoe association is one of several parties challenging the
>>              pipeline plan. Other critics have filed a complaint in Leon
>>              County, charging DEP officials with violating public records
>>              laws.
>>
>>DOWN THE TUBES: Plans of the Buckeye Cellulose plant in Perry FL to pump
>>treated waste through a 15 mile pipe to the mouth of the Fenholloway River
>>may simply be transferring hormone disrupters, Greenwire writes based on a
>>St. Petersburg (FL) Times article. Current pollution is believed to cause
>>female fish in the River to develop male sex organs. However, the pipe would
>>send waste to within five miles of the Big Bend Seagrass Aquatic Preserve,
>>"a prime marine wilderness area" that is home to manatees and rare sea
>>turtles. Researchers studying the river's gender-bender fish say that
>>whatever is disrupting their hormones "could get into the food chain and
>>spread to marine species in the Gulf."

>From:
>Joy Towles, President
>HOPE (Help Our Polluted Environment) In Taylor County, Florida
>P. O. Box 327
>Salem, Florida   32356
>850 584-7087 phone & fax
>email:  hope@igc.apc.org
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