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BLUE RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE LEAGUE
PO Box 88 ~
Glendale Springs, North Carolina 28629 ~ Phone
(336) 982-2691 ~ Fax (336) 982-2954 ~ Email:
BREDL@skybest.com
PRESS
RELEASE
Monday, October 25, 1999 Contact: Denise
Lee, BREDL
(704) 826-8116
TOXIC TOUR
CITIZENS TO TAKE BACK THEIR AIR
WHAT: BREDL and the
EM-POWER! Project of Communities for
a Better
Environment of California will be training
concerned citizens on how to
conduct a Bucket Brigade in their neighborhoods.
The Blue Ridge Environmental
Defense League (BREDL) and Communities for a
Better Environment (CBE) will
conduct a Toxic Tour of polluted neighborhoods in
the Piedmont. The tour will
include local community people who are ready to
take back their air.
WHY: The purpose of this tour is
to become familiar with the surroundings and
design a community based air monitoring protocol
specific to each situation.
The time has come for citizens and neighborhoods
to ban together to take back
their air. The bucket air-sampling device is an
accurate, low cost way to
measure the toxic chemicals present in the air we
breathe.
WHEN: Thursday, October 28,
10:00 a.m.
WHERE: In front of the bulk
gasoline facilities on Highway 27 in Paw Creek,
North Carolina which is located in the northwest
Charlotte area and is home
of the Paw Creek Bulk Gasoline Terminal Complex.
The tour will proceed to the
BMWNC medical waste incinerator in Matthews,
North Carolina. BMWNC
incinerates waste from at least 10 states in the
middle of a residential
community. Citizen's living around BMWNC
have repeatedly complained of foul
odors that burn their eyes, noses and
throats.
From Matthews, we will travel to Solite/Oldover
Corporation a hazardous waste
burner and fuel blending facility in Stanly
County. Solite's history of poor
operations has resulted in massive releases of
toxins into the environment.
The tour will also include an intensive hog
operation in Cason Old Field in
Anson County. Air emissions from industrial
hog operations can contain an
array of toxic air pollutants.
PHOTO OP
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Oct.
1999 Bucket Brigade workshop
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