For an unknown period of time, the 5 bay area refineries have not kept any records about their mercury waste, on average 3700lbs every year, which contributes to the high incidence of mental and physical disorders caused by mercury poisoning of the unborn amidst one of the highest cancer regions in the USA.
According the a 2007 audit, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board has found that the 5 refineries are in contempt of the public ecology, and are fining them $1000 a day until they figure out a way to explain where all the mercury waste goes.
Unfortunately, because all 5 refineries in the bay area have "excused" themselves from explaining why they never kept records of where the mercury waste goes, in contempt f the clean air act, their lawyers are helping to write a methodology to account for mercury waste that will not negatively impact investors shares. In other words, there is a strong chance they are going to lie, alot, and the Water Quality Control Board will accept it, and the public won't know the difference.
We, the People, need verified, independent, mercury testing, conducted by an assembly of Bay Area and Sacramento Delta peoples. We are all in danger... autistic children, nerve damage and loss of cognitive intelligence, politics of corruption, danger to water, fish, land animals, farms.
2007-05 "The case of the missing mercury" from "Eco News" newspaper
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