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Red Bluff & Tehama County Community Alert Protect Red Bluff & Tehama County! Call the Board of Supervisors, the Air District and the Planning Commission Board of Supervisors (530) 527-4655 See also: Read Greenaction/Citizens legal brief. Read Greenaction statement and Red Bluff Daily News, Redding Record Searchlight and Daily Journal stories. 12/21/05 Victory! Greenaction & Red Bluff citizens win appeal against InEnTec’s medical waste plasma arc proposal. Read press release, news stories (Sacramento Bee, Red Bluff Daily News, Redding Record Searchlight) on victory. Read the Final Findings that the Hearing Board Adopted by 3-1 vote. See Pictures from Community Protest Against InEnTec, November 19, 2005!
See Also: Document: Appeal of Inentec permit Red Bluff Daily News, 10/12/05: Citizens send loud message to county Red Bluff Daily News, 10/11/05: EDITORIAL: County should require EIR on InEnTec project Red Bluff Daily News, 9/10/05: InEnTec appeal date set Red Bluff Daily News, 9/9/05: InEnTec opponents air their concerns Red Bluff Daily News, 7/12/05: S.F. group calls for more thorough review of InEnTec For more information, contact:
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Stop the InEnTec Medical Waste Plasma Arc Facility! Do you want medical waste shipped to InEnTec wants to build a commercial medical waste facility in Red Bluff. Inentec would use a plasma arc technology that heats the medical waste and burns the waste gases, emitting pollution including dioxin into the air. Under a loophole in state law, InEnTec would likely be allowed to treat some non-medical waste such as guns, counterfeit money and drugs. In December the Tehama County Planning Commission issued a conditional use permit for the proposed facility without an environmental impact report – and without considering very important information. The truth about hazardous emissions was never discussed in the permit process. In July the Tehama County Air Pollution Control District approved the permit with no public hearings, no public comment period and no Environmental Impact Report. A local citizens group and Greenaction have appealed the permit and need your support for this effort. While Inentec officials have claimed their technology is “pollution-free” and does not produce dioxins, their own tests show the technology does emit hazardous pollutants into the air, including dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known to science. Studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and respected scientific bodies confirm that dioxin is super-toxic in minute doses of exposure. Dioxin exposure can cause cancer, reproductive, developmental, immunological and other serious ill health effects. Dioxin is a persistent, bioaccumulative toxic, yet this was never considered by the Planning Commission or Air District. Inentec’s website used to claim that their commercial systems are being successfully used, but in reality serious equipment problems occurred at the two commercial facilities using Inentec’s plasma arc technology. A company called Asia Pacific Environmental Technology operates a facility in Kapolei, Hawaii using Inentec’s plasma arc technology. Inentec’s plasma arc equipment at the Hawaii plant has had repeated operational problems. It has been shut down for long periods of time, including a recent eight month shutdown due to “refractory damage” in the plasma arc system. Inentec’s website also claimed that Allied Technology Group (ATG) successfully operated a waste treatment facility in Richland, Washington using IET technology, but the truth is that this facility was closed due to financial and operational problems related to the plasma arc. |
