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My son will be 16 in a few days and everyday he looks a little bit more like his father and like my brother Alan. He is all muscles and grace and fluid movement. He climbs up on the roof and cleans out the gutters for me. I am afraid of heights. He’s not. He lifts all the heavy stuff for me and I marvel at his energy and his robust nature, so much like my father, and charming, smiling, able to coax and smooth things over and laughing in the sunlight with no need for shadows at all. I wonder if I taught him enough to survive, to thrive, to reach whatever potential he possesses.
Never mind Honeywell, Baton Rouge, it’s just those damn Trees and Wildflowers polluting our environment again!
"According to Mayor Bobby Simpson of Baton Rouge, approximately 50 percent of the ozone in the Baton Rouge area is produced naturally by trees and other vegetation, while 40 percent comes from vehicle and industrial emissions." BR Advocate 8-21-03
Another chemical spill at Honeywell, another chemical spill, shut the plant down, and pass the chemo around; it’s another chemical spill.
2theadvocate > News > Acid spill at Honeywell plant hurts 2 workers 08/14/03
Acid spill at Honeywell plant hurts 2 workers
By NED RANDOLPH
This is the third accident at the chemical plant in just more than three weeks. Honeywell will be cited with a civil violation by State Police for failure to report Wednesday's accident in a timely manner, Trooper Johnnie Brown confirmed.
EMS was called about 11:15 a.m., an EMS spokesman said.
Honeywell has been dogged by its safety record as of late.
The company's chief executive, Nance Dicciani, said July 31 she had shut down the plant, pending an investigation of two recent spills: on July 20 and July 29.
Gee, I wish I could stand in the background and cheer everyone on; that is if anyone but the lawyers ended up with all that class action money. The poor get cancer, and the rich get, well you know what they all get; that’s right, they eventually all get cancer, too. We’ll all die in our hovels and they’ll die in their mansions, too bad they can’t take it with them like they want to.
Yay! Yay! Yay! I'm back! It's cured!!!!! Now, Back to work and school. Wheeeewwwwwwwww.
(Let me go into what CC Lockdown is; CC stands for chemical corridor and if you live within it's bounds and there is a spill or leak at the local plants, you are told to go inside your home, turn off air conditioning, close your windows, and stop up any holes under your door, and don’t come out again until the all clear. Well, a lot of people don’t get warned (like my friend) and their homes are drafty, old, and in need of repairs, and telling people to go inside and lock their doors, reminds me of the old civil defense films of people hiding under their tables for a nuclear blast. It doesn’t help. )
CC Lockdown's continued: Taken from the classified section of today's Baton Rouge Advocate (conveniently hidden in the public notices section)
DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY - - - Department of Environmental Quality Office of Environmental Assessment Environmental Planning Division Unauthorized Emissions Reporting Procedures (LAC 33:I.3931) (OS052E) In accordance with the emergency provisions of La. R.S. 49:953(B) of the Administrative Procedure Act, which allows the Department of Environmental Quality ("Department") to use emergency procedures to establish rules, and La. R.S. 30:2011, the secretary of the Department hereby finds that imminent peril to the public welfare exists and accordingly adopts the following emergency rule, which shall be effective seven days after the date of adoption for 120 days, or until promulgation of the final rule, whichever occurs first. In the last two years, the Baton Rouge Nonattainment Area (the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, and West Baton Rouge) has experienced exceedances of the one-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). These exceedances did not occur during circumstances that typically result in excessive ozone formation and led to ozone readings the Baton Rouge area has not experienced in a decade. The ozone readings for two separate episodes in September 2002 and July 2003 were 164 parts per billion (ppb) and 174 ppb respectively, over 30 percent above the standard. Monitoring results from these exceedances indicate a high rate and efficiency of ozone production, which was limited spatially to the immediate Baton Rouge area. These ozone episodes correspond very well to the kind of episodes that have occurred in the Houston/ Galveston areas. The Texas Air Quality Study, conducted in the Houston/Galveston areas, concluded that the reactivity of the hydrocarbons was most often dominated by low molecular weight alkenes and aromatics resulting in explosive ozone formation. Air quality sampling in the Baton Rouge area also showed substantial quantities of the mentioned ozone precursors. The ozone formation experienced in the Baton Rouge area may similarly be the result of the emissions of "highly reactive" ozone precursors. The Department needs additional information regarding the emissions of these highly reactive ozone precursors to understand, predict, and prevent further exceedances of the ozone standard. Results from computer simulations based on Houston's industrial regions suggest emissions of as little as 100 pounds of light alkenes and aromatics can lead to 50 ppb or greater enhancements of ozone concentrations. Baton Rouge's type of industry (petrochemical plants and refineries) and meteorological conditions are similar enough to Houston to warrant further investigation. This information is needed immediately to monitor the remainder of the 2003 ozone season in the hopes of achieving attainment of the standard. Facilities are to continue to follow the LAC 33:I.Chapter 39 reporting protocols and, whenever possible, to utilize the new notification procedures found at http://www.deq.state.la.us/surveillance/irf/forms and http://www.deq.state.la.us/surveillance. This Emergency Rule is effective on August 12, 2003, and shall remain in effect for a maximum of 120 days or until a final rule is promulgated, whichever occurs first. For more information concerning OS052E, you may contact the Regulation Development Section at (225) 219-3550. Adopted this 5th day August, 2003. L. HALL BOHLINGER Secretary 2670385-aug 9-1t
CC Lockdown's twice in one week in the same neighborhood in good old Baton Rouge
I'm still here, but I am slightly speechless at the moment, not that I've run out of things to say, it's just that I'm not ready to say what I've been thinking about a lot lately and that is about the all the CC lockdowns going on in Baton Rouge.
I have some modest nursing experience, so my family members call me and tell me when they are ill. They didn’t hear about the lock down until it was too late and they called me before they were aware of a spill and told me they had symptoms similar to strep throat; unable to swallow or breathe deeply, but with excruciating migraines and burning, red eyes, and extreme nausea. I always say go to ER, or go to a doctor, but they decided to wait, and then got the news that there was a chlorine leak. And then heard the local ER doctor on the evening news telling everyone not to bother coming in because there was nothing they could (or would?) do for them.
Then just a few days later my friend called me and said she thought it was happening again because her symptoms were getting worse and she was scared and we found out there was another spill at the same place. (Honeywell) This time it was a chemical agent called antimony pentachloride and she couldn’t open her eyes because they burned so badly, and there was nausea, vomiting, splitting headaches, and trouble breathing, again. This is disgusting and they tell people not to go the doctor. I have some friends severely affected by this and I'm worried and I don't know what to say to them.
My friends live within a couple of blocks of the latest two that occurred within a week of each other at the same plant. (They can't afford to move)
They're all getting nausea, headaches, and vomiting and the doctors in ER are refusing to treat most of the people in the community who have been exposed. Hey maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a POOR mostly minority area and the fat cat doctors in that town don‘t like poor, uninsured, or medicaid patients. Yah think! Anyway I am aghast at how this is being handled.
Do yourself a favor and don't relocate or move to Louisiana until they get their act together. This bullshit has to stop and gutting the clean air act just for Baton Rouge ain’t a good idea.