The City of Port Townsend Washington and the County of Jefferson County, along with the EPA and the Washington DEQ have aided and abetted The Port Townsend Paper Mill to poison the air, water and soil of Port Townsend for decades.
So now we have some issue with Toxic Dust? What is this Really About? We all know that the Jefferson County Public health along with the governing bodies listed above, do NOT care about fine particle dust poisoning us all. They do not care about asbestos issues at the Port Townsend Paper Mill. They do not care about toxic, ACID SLUDGE going into our ground water, into the Port Townsend Bay and shipped out to other counties from the Port Townsend Paper Mill. They do not care about 1000 pounds of ammonia in the Port Townsend Air Daily. They do not care about the Acid levels of the Puget Sound or the Carbon Footprint of Port Townsend that affects the world.
The City of Port Townsend Washington, the County of Jefferson County, the EPA and the Washington DEQ and Jefferson County Health ALL have allowed the Port Townsend Paper Mill to violate our human rights, constitutional rights and to break the laws of air quality, marine law and to violated the Clean Air Act. They choose a GREEDY corporation over the lives of real people.
The 300 jobs at the Port Townsend Paper Mill are 1% of the population of Jefferson County. Many people, companies, and jobs would come here if they were gone. There are artists, writers, healers, farmers and more that make up the REAL population.
So enough with the Greed, the payoffs, the look the other way. SHUT Down the Port Townsend Paper Mill now and STOP violating our right to clean air, clean water, and clean soil.
Below is the recent local issue of Toxic Dust at Boat Haven
http://www.ptleader.com/news/toxic-dust-aired-in-port-race/article_3cbde1d0-6c78-11e5-a0aa-9b7f8c9bbbb4.html
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The City of Port Townsend Washington, the County of Jefferson County, the EPA and the Washington DEQ and Jefferson County Health ALL have allowed the Port Townsend Paper Mill to violate our human rights, constitutional rights and to break the laws of air quality, marine law and to violated the Clean Air Act.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
MONITOR MONITOR. How about SIMPLY STOP Poisoning Us.
"Port Townsend Mill Must Add Second Unit to Monitor Emissions
reports on the plan of Port Townsend Paper Corp. to install a second unit to monitor air emissions from its containerboard mill in Port Townsend, Washington."
Source
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/72065451/port-townsend-mill-must-add-second-unit-monitor-emissions
reports on the plan of Port Townsend Paper Corp. to install a second unit to monitor air emissions from its containerboard mill in Port Townsend, Washington."
Source
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/72065451/port-townsend-mill-must-add-second-unit-monitor-emissions
the Washington State Department of Ecology has coddled the PT Paper Mill for years and years. There is monitoring in place, there is massive complaints and still it goes on.
Archive of the Weather Station from 2008
"PT Paper officials are proud of how the company has responded to Ecology's request for more information relating to public complaints about paper mill odor.
"The DOE has looked at our records and said we have some of the best odor-complaint monitoring in the state," said Kristin Marshall, PT Paper environmental manager."
"Each time a complaint about a mill odor is received, it can be compared to the weather data. Until now, PT Paper would rely on weather information gathered from stations at the County Courthouse or Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend."
All this done to assist due to complaints, YET the mill is self monitoring? WHY?
Read the 2008 Article, why does this go on and on?
http://www.ptleader.com/news/pt-paper-adds-weather-station/article_77412d08-0962-5d62-bf4b-8feb3b2c6d83.html
"PT Paper officials are proud of how the company has responded to Ecology's request for more information relating to public complaints about paper mill odor.
"The DOE has looked at our records and said we have some of the best odor-complaint monitoring in the state," said Kristin Marshall, PT Paper environmental manager."
"Each time a complaint about a mill odor is received, it can be compared to the weather data. Until now, PT Paper would rely on weather information gathered from stations at the County Courthouse or Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend."
All this done to assist due to complaints, YET the mill is self monitoring? WHY?
Read the 2008 Article, why does this go on and on?
http://www.ptleader.com/news/pt-paper-adds-weather-station/article_77412d08-0962-5d62-bf4b-8feb3b2c6d83.html
Port Townsend Paper Odor Test. If Oxygen Worked then why not do it all the time. Makes sense, Oxygen is Alkaline, and the SLUDGE Pond is Acidic as is the Ash Dumping Site. Jefferson County looks the Other Way.
Jefferson County Washington is part of the problem, not the solution. Massive amounts of CO2 emissions
It is your Legal, Moral, Ethical, and Constitutional Right to Breathe Clean Air
The Port Townsend Paper Mill is poisoning your air, damaging the lungs of your children, and using a SHOCKING, GROSS amount of fresh pure water in which they turn into acid and toxin and put in the Port Townsend Bay and Puget Sound. This in turn becomes your food in salmon, shellfish, and the water for all marine life.
Jefferson County Port Townsend Washington LOOKS the other Way while the Port Townsend Paper Mill contributes to climate control, poisons our water and air and essentially violates the law and our constitutional rights. Even the Jefferson County WA Climate Action Committee IGNORES what the Port Townsend Paper Mill is really doing.
"PT Paper emits 1.6 times as much CO2 as ALL other sources in Jeffco WA!
Port Townsend Paper= 611,864 tons per year of CO2e
All others sources in Jefferson County WA = 383,748 tons per year CO2e
That includes industrial, commercial, residential, transportation and solid waste.
Here’s your take-away: PTPC’s emissions amount to a whopping 61% of all CO2e emissions in the County!
Stated another way, PTPC emits 1.6 times all other sources in Jefferson County combined!
A big problem for local discussions is that in an otherwise good 2005 Climate Action Report finalized & published in 2011 by the Jefferson County WA Climate Action Committee, the Committee chose to omit 75% of CO2e emissions from the county’s largest polluter, the Port Townsend Paper Corporation (see text of CAC report, p. 5).
The Committee did a lot of valuable, insightful work, but they undermine their own work by choosing to bow to politics rather than boldly (and bravely) sticking to pure facts, as their role demanded.
In their report, omitting 75% of PTPC’s CO2e emissions reduces the company’s apparent amount to 152,966 tons per year of CO2e, or 40% as much as the rest of Jefferson County.
Even that is shameful! But four times as much — 611,000 tons? Unbelievable!
The Committee’s rationales given were –
A. In conversation, it was said that including PTPC’s full contribution to CO2 would so overwhelm the numbers that people would be discouraged from taking individual action — which somewhat echoes flawed logic floated to excuse countries in international climate change talks from taking responsibility.
B. In the report, CAC uses the biomass industry’s bankrupt “biogenic fuel” arguments, which include:
(a) Myth: that CO2 in the atmosphere behaves differently according to its source.
Fact: CO2 is CO2. Chemistry behaves the same regardless of the source (fossil fuels, wood, etc.). The mill pumps amounts of CO2 24/7/almost 365 into our very local airshed, contributing to our very local ocean acidification and other results of these increases.
(b) Myth: that wood is a renewable fuel just as wind or solar.
Fact: it takes 75-150 years to replace what is burned in seconds and to return to the same CO2 storage capacity as when the trees were cut down–during which interim the storage capacity of the surrounding forest infrastructure is severely reduced. Further, soil processes that store carbon and maintain forest health are disrupted or destroyed.
(c) Myth: that the CO2 would be released anyway by dying trees and so makes no difference to the climate.
Fact: that’s patently wrong. Most of the carbon from dying trees goes into other carbon-based life forms such as critters, plants and new trees. Plus, much of the carbon remains sequestered in extensive root systems that were formed during the tree’s lifetime.
Bottom Line: in the atmosphere, CO2 is CO2 and we need to count all of it in order to have discussions that mean anything.
We can’t expect to develop meaningful solutions while ignoring two thirds of the problem.
"CO2e emissions are one of the major drivers of ocean acidification, the changes in chemistry that threaten local natural shellfish stocks, marine life and habitat."
Source
https://web.archive.org/web/20141218033810/http://ptairwatchers.org/
Sunday, March 22, 2015
What is the Smell in Port Townsend. So many Google what is the smell in Port Townsend. The Smell in Port Townsend is TOXIC, it will most likely make you SICK in visible and non-visible ways. The Smell in Port Townsend is BAD for ALL aspects of Healthy life in Port Townsend Washington
The Smell in Port Townsend is the Port Townsend Paper Mill's Toxic Emmissions.
This Blog Post is written in my opinion and to the best of my knowledge.
The Port Townsend Paper Mill takes 14 million gallons of pristine Olympic Mountain water a day from the Little Quilcene River and the Big Quilcene River, and they pollute it, fill it with toxins and create yucky toxic water that they dump into the Port Townsend Bay.
They have a SLUDGE pond that creates toxic soil and huge toxic odor. When they remove sludge in trucks it goes to unknown sources and is said to be able to be used as fill for playgrounds, parks, agriculture and other and that the Port Townsend Paper Mill does not have to disclose what is in the SLUDGE as that is the alleged legal responsibility of the end user.
The toxic air, of which is said to contain 1000 lbs of ammonia a day and other known carcigens, this causes massive health problems that many cannot recover from and so they leave Jefferson County, Port Townsend. Their Doctor even tells them, hey your kids can't get better here, or you can't get better here and so they have to move from this alleged pristine area.
Jefferson County seems to love the Port Townsend Paper Mill as many say it's the smell of money. Which is shocking, as it's money for big corporation, for doctors healing lung cancer and other major health problems the mill cause and as for the workers, they don't seem to mind that this affecting their health as yes they are making a living, the thing is, at what cost?
The toxins that the mill puts out, seems to be a known fact, it seems that Jefferson County, the City of Port Townsend and Washington Department of Ecology simply looks the other way and keeps this toxic waste site (in my opinion) spewing air that is harming the health and public safety of the area ( in my opinion due to the ability to read). They seem to do this willfully and wanton, to protect the mill and the jobs that come with it.
The Washington Governor seems big on taxing companies that spew CO2, this mill spews tons daily and for now they seem to hve no conscience nor accountability held on them and are even self monitored.
The WA Governor recently called for an emergency drought on the Olympic Peninsula, oh well, who cares right?
The city of Port Townsend uses 1 million gallons a day for the needs of the people. The Port Townsend Paper Mill pollutes and wastes 14 million gallons a day with total disregard for the environment, or the people ( in my opinion).
The EPA seems to know what is coming out of the Port Townsend Paper and so does the Washington Department of Ecology, and they look the other way.
We have otters, whales, herons, and tons of sea life and wildlife here as well as lot's of organic farms, and well lot's of people that want and have a legal right as a matter of law to Clean Air and Clean Water. Yet this issue is swept under the proverbial rug over and over.
It makes no sense how Jefferson County Washington can have Organic Farms when the air is polluted as far as the information I have seen.
Go out at night, with a flashlight, tons of yellow fine particles, YEP you come to Port Townsend, our beautiful amazing town and you breath Toxic Air, so does your children, your babies, elderly and guess what; the worst of the "what's that smell" in Port Townsend goes right into our hospital and schools; oh well the county, state and federal officials look the other way to create toxic jobs.
http://www.porttownsendpaper.com/
The Port Townse Smell is Port Townsend Paper Mill Emissions
http://ptairwatchers.org/port-townsend-paper-mill-emissions/
Why is the Port Townsend Paper Mill ALLOWED by the City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County Washington to put KNOWN Toxins into the Air, Water and Soil?
EPA Did NOTHING
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2011/pulp-mills-09-26-2011.html
http://www.nationofchange.org/paper-mill-air-pollution-standards-25-years-out-date-environmental-groups-sue-epa-1323967682
Jefferson County Public Health Does NOTHING
http://jeffersoncountypublichealth.blogspot.com/2014/12/state-of-washington-department-of.html
Remember when Reading Blogs, When You get to the bottom, go to the lower right and click older posts to keep going.
Port Townsend Paper Mill Toxic Air
http://olympicgazette.blogspot.com/search?q=Paper+Mill
http://porttownsendnews.blogspot.com/search?q=Paper+Mill
Port Townsend Mill Facebook information
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Townsend-Paper-Mill/245153762294452?fref=ts&__nodl
PT Airwatchers Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/10150099332035319/?fref=ts
PT Airwatchers Web Site
http://ptairwatchers.org/
Massive Co2 YET County, State, EPA all do NOTHING but Protect the Mill
http://ptairwatchers.org/2014/10/06/pt-paper-emits-1-6-times-as-much-co2-as-all-other-sources-in-jeffco-wa/
The Toxic Pond (this article was removed by the Port Townsend Leader, who I allege protects the Port Townsend Mill to Knowingly Poison the Port Townsend People
https://web.archive.org/web/20130423165340/http://ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=33384
Background about the Smell in Port Townsend
http://ptairwatchers.org/background-the-stink/
The Air Makes Some Dizzy, Check Out this guy
What Does it Smell Like in Port Townsend and Port Hadlock / Irondale?: https://youtu.be/3k4mT1sI37I
I myself stayed at the Manresa Castle for a while and woke up some nights seizing in my chest. Felt like my organs were shutting down, throat badly swollen. Sinuses burning badly. Stomach Cramping, Eyes Swollen. Horrible inner ear pain.
I have lived rural here as well and had burning eyes, ear pain and other symptoms. So why stay? The thing is Port Townsend is such a cool town, and it's so beautiful here. The people are so amazing and well I love it here. Plus for me it is a Spiritual Calling. However, whether we choose to stay or leave the smell and toxic air of Port Townsend or not, the Port Townsend Paper Mill is seemingly breaking the law and causing a public safety issue and environmental hazard and it's time to STOP.
I know many who have had to leave to get their children to safe air. This is a serious issue and seems to be something that Jefferson County is either unable or unwilling to tackle. Clearly the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act as well as our constitutional rights should trump the alleged "Smell of Money" YAP they use to keep poising the Port Townsend Bay, Port Townsend Air, Whales, Otters, Babies, those in the local hospital, fish and wildlife, organic farms and all of us citizens who SHOULD have the legal rights to Clean Air, Clean Water and Clean Soil.
http://olympicnationalforestnews.blogspot.com/2014/12/investigative-blogger-crystal-cox-says.html
What is that Horrible Smell in Port Townsend ?
Call the County, Call the Mayor, Call your Commissioners, Call the State Department of Ecology, Call your Senator, Call the Governors Office, File Lawsuits, File Attorney General Complaints. I believe the Port Townsend Paper Mill is breaking the LAW. Expose them, Sue them.
Also Call These Numbers to Complain
Stephanie Ogle, PE
This Blog Post is written in my opinion and to the best of my knowledge.
The Port Townsend Paper Mill takes 14 million gallons of pristine Olympic Mountain water a day from the Little Quilcene River and the Big Quilcene River, and they pollute it, fill it with toxins and create yucky toxic water that they dump into the Port Townsend Bay.
They have a SLUDGE pond that creates toxic soil and huge toxic odor. When they remove sludge in trucks it goes to unknown sources and is said to be able to be used as fill for playgrounds, parks, agriculture and other and that the Port Townsend Paper Mill does not have to disclose what is in the SLUDGE as that is the alleged legal responsibility of the end user.
The toxic air, of which is said to contain 1000 lbs of ammonia a day and other known carcigens, this causes massive health problems that many cannot recover from and so they leave Jefferson County, Port Townsend. Their Doctor even tells them, hey your kids can't get better here, or you can't get better here and so they have to move from this alleged pristine area.
Jefferson County seems to love the Port Townsend Paper Mill as many say it's the smell of money. Which is shocking, as it's money for big corporation, for doctors healing lung cancer and other major health problems the mill cause and as for the workers, they don't seem to mind that this affecting their health as yes they are making a living, the thing is, at what cost?
The toxins that the mill puts out, seems to be a known fact, it seems that Jefferson County, the City of Port Townsend and Washington Department of Ecology simply looks the other way and keeps this toxic waste site (in my opinion) spewing air that is harming the health and public safety of the area ( in my opinion due to the ability to read). They seem to do this willfully and wanton, to protect the mill and the jobs that come with it.
The WA Governor recently called for an emergency drought on the Olympic Peninsula, oh well, who cares right?
The city of Port Townsend uses 1 million gallons a day for the needs of the people. The Port Townsend Paper Mill pollutes and wastes 14 million gallons a day with total disregard for the environment, or the people ( in my opinion).
The EPA seems to know what is coming out of the Port Townsend Paper and so does the Washington Department of Ecology, and they look the other way.
We have otters, whales, herons, and tons of sea life and wildlife here as well as lot's of organic farms, and well lot's of people that want and have a legal right as a matter of law to Clean Air and Clean Water. Yet this issue is swept under the proverbial rug over and over.
It makes no sense how Jefferson County Washington can have Organic Farms when the air is polluted as far as the information I have seen.
Go out at night, with a flashlight, tons of yellow fine particles, YEP you come to Port Townsend, our beautiful amazing town and you breath Toxic Air, so does your children, your babies, elderly and guess what; the worst of the "what's that smell" in Port Townsend goes right into our hospital and schools; oh well the county, state and federal officials look the other way to create toxic jobs.
For More Information on your Google Search "What's that Smell In Port Townsend" Check Out the Links Below.
The Port Townse Smell is Port Townsend Paper Mill Emissions
http://ptairwatchers.org/port-townsend-paper-mill-emissions/
Why is the Port Townsend Paper Mill ALLOWED by the City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County Washington to put KNOWN Toxins into the Air, Water and Soil?
The Port Townsend Paper Mill is MAKING YOU SICK, Lowering Your Immune System and causing you Serious Health Risks
The Port Townsend Paper Mill is MAKING YOU SICK, Lowering Your Immune System and causing you Serious Health Risks
EPA Did NOTHING
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2011/pulp-mills-09-26-2011.html
http://www.nationofchange.org/paper-mill-air-pollution-standards-25-years-out-date-environmental-groups-sue-epa-1323967682
Jefferson County Public Health Does NOTHING
http://jeffersoncountypublichealth.blogspot.com/2014/12/state-of-washington-department-of.html
Remember when Reading Blogs, When You get to the bottom, go to the lower right and click older posts to keep going.
Port Townsend Paper Mill Toxic Air
http://olympicgazette.blogspot.com/search?q=Paper+Mill
http://porttownsendnews.blogspot.com/search?q=Paper+Mill
Port Townsend Mill Facebook information
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Townsend-Paper-Mill/245153762294452?fref=ts&__nodl
PT Airwatchers Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/10150099332035319/?fref=ts
PT Airwatchers Web Site
http://ptairwatchers.org/
Massive Co2 YET County, State, EPA all do NOTHING but Protect the Mill
http://ptairwatchers.org/2014/10/06/pt-paper-emits-1-6-times-as-much-co2-as-all-other-sources-in-jeffco-wa/
The Toxic Pond (this article was removed by the Port Townsend Leader, who I allege protects the Port Townsend Mill to Knowingly Poison the Port Townsend People
https://web.archive.org/web/20130423165340/http://ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=33384
Background about the Smell in Port Townsend
http://ptairwatchers.org/background-the-stink/
The Air Makes Some Dizzy, Check Out this guy
What Does it Smell Like in Port Townsend and Port Hadlock / Irondale?: https://youtu.be/3k4mT1sI37I
I myself stayed at the Manresa Castle for a while and woke up some nights seizing in my chest. Felt like my organs were shutting down, throat badly swollen. Sinuses burning badly. Stomach Cramping, Eyes Swollen. Horrible inner ear pain.
I have lived rural here as well and had burning eyes, ear pain and other symptoms. So why stay? The thing is Port Townsend is such a cool town, and it's so beautiful here. The people are so amazing and well I love it here. Plus for me it is a Spiritual Calling. However, whether we choose to stay or leave the smell and toxic air of Port Townsend or not, the Port Townsend Paper Mill is seemingly breaking the law and causing a public safety issue and environmental hazard and it's time to STOP.
I know many who have had to leave to get their children to safe air. This is a serious issue and seems to be something that Jefferson County is either unable or unwilling to tackle. Clearly the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act as well as our constitutional rights should trump the alleged "Smell of Money" YAP they use to keep poising the Port Townsend Bay, Port Townsend Air, Whales, Otters, Babies, those in the local hospital, fish and wildlife, organic farms and all of us citizens who SHOULD have the legal rights to Clean Air, Clean Water and Clean Soil.
A Few More Research Links
What is that Horrible Smell in Port Townsend ?
What is that Smell in Port Townsend?
Who to Call to Complain
Also Call These Numbers to Complain
Stephanie Ogle, PE
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