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Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:52 |
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January 30, 2010 (Harrison, NJ) In the background of the new Red Bulls Stadium one can see white smoke coming from a smoke stack. The smoke stack is the Covanta Energy Ironbound Garbage Incinerator. The incinerator operates 24 hours a day 7 days a week burning garbage from New York City, 22 towns in Essex County and 11 surrounding trash transfer stations. Although garbage trucks were suppose to take the New Jersey Turnpike to access the incinerator, garbage trucks have made their way to the incinerator by taking a short cut through Harrison and through the Ironbound section of Newark.
Since its proposal, community activists in the Ironbound Section of Newark have complained that the incinerator posed a health risk to its surrounding community. Their complaints have not resulted in the closure of the plant but have resulted in some emission improvements. When the plant did not have enough garbage to burn it turned to importing garbage from New York City and other communities outside Essex County.
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Written by KOTW
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Friday, 19 June 2009 03:00 |
Source: AP/Mike Derer
June 19, 2009 (Kearny NJ) This week the Center for American Progress
reported on proposed Federal Legislation,
The Chemical Facility
Antiterrorism Act of 2009, which would push chemical companies to convert
to safer alternative chemicals and processes. The Center for American
Progress featured the Kuehne Chemical plant in Kearny as an example of a
facility that could be converted into a safer facility. KOTW has long
advocated this change.
Read the Center for American Progress article by
clicking here.
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Written by KOTW
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Monday, 08 December 2008 03:00 |
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December 6, 2008 (Kearny NJ). The
Kuehne Chemical plant in South Kearny is once again in the news. The
Center for American Progress released a report entitled
Chemical Security 101: What You Don’t Have Can’t Leak, or Be Blown Up by
Terrorists. Kuehne Chemical is one of the companies on the list of
101 most dangerous chemical plants in the United States. Readers of KOTW
have long been aware of the potential for a disaster. It is disturbing
that little has been done to ensure the safety of the public from a terrorist
attack on the Kuehne Chemical plant. KOTW has long advocated for a
public-private partnership with the owners of Kuehne to convert their chemical
plant to a facility which does not house large quantities of chlorine gas on
site. The Center for American Progress report agrees with KOTW's
recommendation: the Kuehne plant should be retrofit to produce bleach by using
salt and electricity rather than from chlorine gas which would eliminate a
terrorist target-- the storage and transportation of large quantities of
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Written by KOTW
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Monday, 19 November 2007 03:00 |
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November 19, 2007. In
an article entitled
Activists fight
chemical lobby on security, Donal F. Nicolai, president and CEO of Kuehne
Chemical stated "Let’s face reality. Sitting where we are sitting, it’s a
legitimate concern. So is there a benefit to reducing or eliminating that?
Absolutely." Nicolai is referring to the option of retrofitting its South
Kearny chemical plant to produce chlorine on site rather than transporting
liquid chlorine to the plant by railcar. In August, KOTW suggested that
Governor Jon Corzine spend the
money he was earmarking for repairs to the
Pulaski Skyway to the Kuehne Chemical plant. Our exact words were, "If the
State of New Jersey is thinking of spending $1 billion dollars to secure the
Pulaski Skyway it should divert that money to help Kuehne Chemical retrofit
its South Kearny plant to make it as safe as its Delaware plant". |
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Written by KOTW
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 03:00 |
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August
11, 2007. On Thursday, Governor Jon Corzine held a press conference in
South Kearny using the Pulaski Skyway as a backdrop. Corzine stated that
it might make sense to spend $1 billion to replace the bridge than to spend
$100 million to maintain it over the next 10 years. U.S. Senators Frank
Lautenberg and Robert Menendez vowed to lobby Congress and the Bush
administration for increased transportation funding.
Earlier
in the week there was
a story which received very little press coverage. There was a
chlorine leak on a railroad container which injured a CSX employee in South
Kearny. The leak was contained to the area immediately surrounding the
container. The Kearny Fire Department and a HazMat team crew responded
and found that a valve on the container had leaked allowing chlorine gas to
escape.
Governor
Corzine missed a great opportunity to hold a press conference to cover both
the safety of New Jersey's bridges and its chemical plants. |
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