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SEPTEMBER 2022
DTSC PUBLIC NOTICE
Department of Toxic Substances Control – Our mission is to protect the people, communities, and environment of California from harmful chemicals by cleaning up contaminated sites, enforcing hazardous waste laws, and compelling the development of safer products.
EMERGENCY PERMIT WORLD OIL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES - FORTUNA 200 DINSMORE DRIVE, FORTUNA, CALIFORNIA 95540
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has issued an Emergency Permit to World Oil Environmental Services - Fortuna (WOES - Fortuna) to transfer ignitable hazardous waste from a tanker truck to another tanker truck or container at the WOES Fortuna facility’s permitted truck loading/unloading area located at 200 Dinsmore Drive, Fortuna, California 95540. On August 26, 2022, World Oil Environmental Services, a transporter, arrived at the WOES - Fortuna facility to off-load approximately 1,445 gallons of used oil. The used oil was tested and found to be ignitable. WOES - Fortuna does not have a permit to manage ignitable hazardous waste and the tanker truck does not meet the specifications that would allow it to transport ignitable hazardous waste. DTSC has determined that the waste poses an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the environment if not properly managed. Therefore, an emergency permit was issued to allow WOES - Fortuna to pump the waste from the truck to an approved truck or container and transport the waste offsite to an authorized hazardous waste treatment facility. This Emergency Permit is effective from September 2, 2022, through October 31, 2022. The Emergency Permit includes measures to minimize any adverse impact to the community and the environment. WOES - Fortuna is required to submit a follow-up report to DTSC verifying that all hazardous waste was safely transferred. CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA): DTSC has determined that the issuance of this permit is exempt from the requirements of CEQA and has filed a Notice of Exemption (NOE) with the State Clearinghouse. The Emergency Permit, NOE, and WOES - Fortuna’s request for this project are available for review at the file room located at:
DTSC Sacramento Regional Office 8800 Cal Center Drive Sacramento, California 95826 (916) 255-3758, please call for an appointment CONTACT INFORMATION: If you have any questions or concerns, please contact:
Lung-Yin Tai Thelmy M. Alvarez Russ Edmondson
Project Manager Public Participation Specialist Public Information Officer 916-255-3615 323-416-4138 916-323-3372 Lung-Yin.Tai@dtsc.ca.gov Thelmy.Alvarez@dtsc.ca.gov Russ.Edmondson@dtsc.ca.gov
Editor:
It is revealing that ordinary western Ukrainians know as little about the history which led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as we do (“Uniting for Ukraine,” Sept. 8). There is no recognition of the Reagan and GHW Bush administrations’ solemn promises not to move “one inch further east.” The Clinton administration broke this promise and promptly began installing NATO bases bristling with missiles, around Russia. Over the next years the U.S. withdrew from the ABM, the INF, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty and many more.
Ukrainians, as ourselves, are ignorant of the U.S.’s critical role in the 2014 coup, and the rapid arming and training of Ukraine in the ensuing years. We know nothing of Ukraine’s years of shelling Donetz and Luhansk, taking 14,000 eastern Ukrainian lives, nor NATO’s provocations, the Minsk accords or of Russia’s repeated requests to join NATO.
The fi rst duty of a country’s leader is to protect their people. Zelensky threw Ukraine to the wolves. All Ukraine had to do to prevent war was to keep Reagan’s promise.
The recent spectacle of Zelensky, wearing a T-shirt proclaiming, “The Power of Freedom,” ringing a bell to open Wall Street’s stock exchange, as he o ers his country to the highest bidder, defi nes freedom in a way we know all too well.
Ellen Taylor, Petrolia
An ‘Example of Misinformation’
Terry Torgerson
Lauri Rose, Dinsmore
Editor:
Miss Gustin’s letter regarding Torgensen’s cartoon about vaccines was an excellent example of misinformation (Mailbox, Sept. 15.). She started with something true: Vaccines don’t necessarily keep people from getting COVID. Then she went on to imply that we, the public, had been lied to about that. And she used emotionally charge statements like, “publicly admitted” and “it’s disturbing” (italics are mine). She purposely misconstrued the truth that Faucci, et al weren’t “admitting” anything, they were trying to educate public about realistic expectations.
I listen to CNN and NPR — surely pretty mainstream media. From almost the beginning, scientists, epidemiologists and other health professions let us know the vaccines would not necessarily prevent you from getting the virus. What they said the vaccines do, and continue to do incredibly well, is decrease severe illness, hospitalization and death. The statistical decoupling of infection rates from deaths is proof of the vaccine pudding. Also the fact that the majority of COVID deaths are in unvaccinated folks.
As to “...a portion of the public that is resistant to facts, science and reality,” Ms. Gustin, I am willing to put my sources next to your sources any day. I ask you, Ms. Gustin, to stop promulgating misinformation. Speak the whole truth, or nothing.
For those wanting to see facts and fi gures about who is getting COVID and who is dying from it, I suggest the epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina’s blog.
Editor:
Let’s talk about the Jacobs Junior High property.
The Jacobs property is up for sale. Why? Back in the day, Eureka City Schools had 8,000 students. Now enrollment is less than half of that at 3,600 students. Loss of a lot of families.
The city of Eureka puts forth a price limit of $2.8 million. The City looks at the cost of the land. Have not seen much conversation
