From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:10:06 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Orrington (Maine) chemical plant owner could spend $267M on Penobscot River mercury cleanup" |
Orrington chemical plant owner could spend $267M on Penobscot River mercury cleanup by Judy Harrison Bangor Daily News (ME) March 23, 2021 The onetime owner of a shuttered chemical plant in Orrington would spend between $187 million and $267 million to clean up mercury contamination in the Penobscot River estuary under the terms of a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The settlement, if approved by a judge, would bring to an end a 21-year legal battle over pollution in the Penobscot River that took place while HoltraChem Manufacturing operated on its banks from 1967 to 2000. The court case, brought by the Maine People’s Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2000, is the oldest pending court case in federal court in Maine. The cleanup work described in the settlement would include removing contaminated sediment from the river, capping some contaminated sediments with clean sediments, other beneficial environmental projects, and long-term monitoring, according to the settlement. … For the entire article, see https://bangordailynews.com/2021/03/23/news/bangor/orrington-chemical-plant-owner-could-spend-267m-on-penobscot-river-mercury-cleanup/ — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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