How much of the failure of Detroit was due to waste from private industry? Koch TAR SANDS waste.

Recently we have just experienced the dust from the pet coke taking a life of its own during last Friday's storm, and shown is a picture taken by Anthony Martinez of the dust on 109th and Buffalo . We also have a video of the dust from the pet coke creating the same effect during a storm off the Detroit river on July 27, 2013. Click on the link below for video access. 

First it was Detroit, now ‘PetKoch’ piling up in Chicago' (click here)
10/14/2013 by Kari Lydersen

...Coal, crushed limestone, slag from steel mills and other bulk materials have long been stored along the river, shipped in and out on barges. But these piles, they suspected, were petroleum coke, or “petcoke,” the byproduct of refining heavy tar sands oil.

In July piles of petcoke made bi-national headlines as dark clouds swirled over the Detroit River by the Ambassador Bridge leading to Canada. That petcoke was from the Marathon Detroit Oil refinery, which has expanded to process tar sands oil.

In August, Southeast Chicago residents saw similar clouds themselves. One local resident posted a photo on Facebook after an August 30 wind storm, showing a billowing thick black haze.

As in Detroit, the Chicago piles are part of the business empire of the Koch brothers, earning the nickname “PetKoch.” KCBX, an affiliate of Koch Carbon which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, owns large parcels of land along the Calumet River.

An industry website says the commodities handled at KCBX are typically 80 percent coal and 20 percent petcoke....

This Koch GARBAGE is deadly. It is tiny particulates and will cause lung damage. This is a lawsuit filed in North Carolina with Duke Energy Progress,Inc.. It affects everything, air and water quality as well as home values. 

Chapel Hill, NC  –  Conservation groups (click here) today filed suit in federal court against Duke Energy Progress, Inc., to clean up the company’s toxic coal ash pollution of Sutton Lake near Wilmington, N.C, and coal ash pollution of groundwater at its Sutton Plant.  The coal ash pollution threatens to destroy the fishery of Sutton Lake, a popular regional fishing lake, and is moving toward the groundwater wells that supply drinking water for the nearby Flemington community, a diverse low-income neighborhood.  The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the Clean Water Act suit in United States District Court on behalf of Cape Fear River Watch, the Sierra Club, and the Waterkeeper Alliance....