The Mountaineer's Vicki Hyatt gives the latest details on an ongoing struggle between state and EPA regulators that has involved Rep. Heath Shuler and the state's top environmental body, the Environmental Management Commission. Here are some excerpts: North Carolina authorities must decide whether or how to revise a permit for the Canton paper mill in late May, but nothing will be done until after a May 13 Environmental Management Commission meeting. ...
In a letter the state’s Water Quality Division received Feb. 22, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified North Carolina it had 90 days to revise and resubmit a draft wastewater discharge permit for the Blue Ridge Paper Products Canton mill. ...
Evergreen Packaging Inc., Blue Ridge Paper Products division employs more than 1,000 in Western North Carolina and estimates its annual economic impact at $450 million. ...
The EPA has also received a letter from U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler’s office asking that federal officials meet with state and industry representatives regarding the permit issues if a meeting is requested. ...
Massengale [a spokesperson for the water quality division of N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources] said it will still be possible to comply with the 90-day deadline in the event the state chooses to revise the permit to retain control of the process. ...
Hope Taylor, a research chemist and executive director of Clean Water NC, said the concessions being requested of Blue Ridge/Evergreen are affordable and possible. ... The anger over what she terms an “inadequate permit,” is directed more toward the N.C. DENR’s Water Quality Division than the mill. "DWQ has generally gone out of its way to make permits as weak as they can get away with and that results in groups like us taking action to get improvements." ...
NC Clean Water is also unhappy with the EPA parameters set forth in a revised permit. ... “But we can’t sue until a permit is issued,” she said.Read the full article
In a letter the state’s Water Quality Division received Feb. 22, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified North Carolina it had 90 days to revise and resubmit a draft wastewater discharge permit for the Blue Ridge Paper Products Canton mill. ...
Evergreen Packaging Inc., Blue Ridge Paper Products division employs more than 1,000 in Western North Carolina and estimates its annual economic impact at $450 million. ...
The EPA has also received a letter from U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler’s office asking that federal officials meet with state and industry representatives regarding the permit issues if a meeting is requested. ...
Massengale [a spokesperson for the water quality division of N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources] said it will still be possible to comply with the 90-day deadline in the event the state chooses to revise the permit to retain control of the process. ...
Hope Taylor, a research chemist and executive director of Clean Water NC, said the concessions being requested of Blue Ridge/Evergreen are affordable and possible. ... The anger over what she terms an “inadequate permit,” is directed more toward the N.C. DENR’s Water Quality Division than the mill. "DWQ has generally gone out of its way to make permits as weak as they can get away with and that results in groups like us taking action to get improvements." ...
NC Clean Water is also unhappy with the EPA parameters set forth in a revised permit. ... “But we can’t sue until a permit is issued,” she said.Read the full article
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