On Thursday, the March NW Examiner featured an astounding article about the air quality issue in the NW neighborhood. For most observers it seems like stating the obvious. But for those of us that live and breathe in close proximity to industrial facilities, routinely cleaning the black dust off our porches and smelling the pungent… Read more »
Posts Categorized: air toxics
What is in our AIR?
There has been a disturbing trend of gasoline odors in the NW neighborhood this past year. As neighbors to the Industrial Sanctuary in NW Portland, we are pretty accustomed to the onslaught of nasty odors. We even have developed our own key of association, to better help identify where they are coming from. Overwhelmingly, most… Read more »
BPA Ban fails in Oregon Senate
The Oregon Senate failure to pass the BPA ban today is a wake up call. As Jon Isaacs wrote on the OLCV blog, Feb 15th in anticipation of the passing of Senate Bill 1032: “I don’t think it’s possible for a public health issue to be any less controversial and straightforward to Oregonians than keeping… Read more »
Kinder-Morgan, Equilon (Shell) and Chevron Title V Permits up for renewal
7 companies 8 terminals 586 storage tanks 300 million gallon capacity 1,394 tons of volatile organic compounds emitted annually –This is a description from Paul Koberstein, of CASCADIA TIMES, of the Northwest Portland Petroleum Tank Farm situated between Hwy 30 and the Willamette River, as analyzed from current Title V air pollution operating permits. On… Read more »
Thanksgiving Meditation
Ever since my niece was born, half into our family of Minnesota Catholics of European descent and half into the Lakota nation, I have had to reconsider much of the world I take for granted. Some of those things are in the details, in insidious stereotypes perpetuated by sport team mascots and Peter Pan. Others… Read more »