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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS:
Chicago Residents Rebel Against Koch Brothers
and Rahm Emanuel Over Petroleum Coke Hazard
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Chicago Residents Rebel Against Koch Brothers
and Rahm Emanuel Over Petroleum Coke Hazard
Mark Karlin
Thursday, 23 January 2014 07:46
Truthout
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/
18435-chicago-residents-rebel-against-koch-brothers-
and-rahm-emanuel-over-petroleum-coke-hazard
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/lhxjfx4
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The Koch brothers are benefitting from the Alberta tar sands operation big
time as they amass mountains of a byproduct -- petroleum coke -- to sell
overseas.
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As with many toxic industries, the Koch brothers are locating storage
large storage piles of petcoke in poor down-on-their-heels neighborhoods.
This first came to notice in Detroit, where the Kochs were storing the
hazardous material -- in open air -- along the Detroit River until ships
could transport it overseas (particularly to China).
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A similar storage hazard exists on Chicago's struggling Southwest Side,
along the Calumet River. Many residents are revolting against Mayor Rahm
Emanuel's proposed industry friendly regulations and support a ban on open
storage of petroleum coke (a move opposed by Emanuel).
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According to a January 14 article in Midwest Energy News (MEN):
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At a public hearing Monday night, local residents made clear that they
dont trust the City Council or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to take meaningful
action on the issue.
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They think the citys proposed storage regulations crafted by the public
health department at the mayors behest would allow piles of petcoke to
keep growing and polluting in their neighborhood....
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Emanuel last month rejected the idea of a citywide ban on petcoke storage,
saying a state or federal solution is needed.
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In supporting the pollution for profit policies of the Koch Brothers,
Emanuel is continuing his nearly unbroken record of being the mayor not of
the people, but of corporate interests.
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One resident describe Emanuel's favored aldermanic proposal as being like
Swiss Cheese, rife with holes.
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Of a possible restriction to let only small companies store the petroleum
coke in open air mounds, another neighborhood advocate complained,
according to MEN:
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The Koch brothers will create 10 smaller companies tomorrow and spread it
all along the river, said Carl Camacho, 33, who has lived his entire life
in the neighborhood.
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Do they know how wind works? added Bautista after the hearing. Those
barriers wont do anything.
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Critics also blasted the fact that the regulations would be crafted and
enforced by the citys health department, which is already considered
under-staffed and resource-strapped. The environment department was
eliminated in 2011.
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Of course, although not one local Chicagoan supported the Emanuel plan,
representatives of the Koch subsidiary KCBX and the Illinois Chamber of
Commerce criticized the regulations as too stringent.
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Emanuel lives in a comfortable, leafy residential northern neighborhood
far from the Koch brothers storage site. His wife and children are not
impacted in any way by the petcoke swirling on the Southwest Side of the
city. And we suspect that no industry executives live in the Calumet River
area. As MEN documents:
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The fight over petcoke taps into a larger ongoing struggle on the far
southeast side. This was once the thrumming hub of the regions steel
industry, with up to 40,000 people employed in well-paying union jobs. The
mills closed in the 1980s and 1990s, other industries left as well, and
the area fell into economic and structural decline.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
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