Pineville council may oppose open-burn permit
The Pineville City Council tonight will consider a resolution to oppose Clean Harbors Colfax's open-burn permit request.
Pineville council may oppose open-burn permit The Pineville City Council tonight will consider a resolution to oppose Clean Harbors Colfax's open-burn permit request. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2016/02/09/pineville-council-may-oppose-open-burn-permit/80065336/
Richard Sharkey, rsharkey@thetowntalk.com, (318) 487-6490 Published 1:08 p.m. CT Feb. 9, 2016 | Updated 1:09 p.m. CT Feb. 9, 2016
A resolution to oppose Clean Harbors Colfax's request to increase open burning at its site near Colfax will be considered by the Pineville City Council at its 6 p.m. meeting today, Feb. 9.(Photo: Courtesy)
The Pineville City Council tonight will consider a resolution to oppose Clean Harbors Colfax's permit request to quadruple its open burning of waste.
The council meets at 6 p.m. today (Tuesday) in Pineville City Hall, and one of the last items on the agenda is "a resolution in opposition to the increase in annual volume of Open Burn/Open Detonation of Hazardous Waste by Clean Harbors Colfax, LLC."
Open burning is taking place a Clean Harbors Colfax's facility about 5 miles northwest of Colfax. Environmental toxicologists and others say the open burning of toxic waste can cause health hazards, including cancer, especially within a 40-mile radius, which would include Pineville.
Clean Harbors Colfax has requested that the state Department of Environmental Quality grant a "permit modification" to allow it to increase the annual amount of net explosive weight that it burns from about 500,000 pounds to more than 2 million pounds.
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Public comments on the proposal can be submitted to DEQ until 4:30 p.m. Feb. 29. DEQ will conduct a public hearing at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Grant Parish Civic Center, also known as the Colfax Civic Center, at 420 Richardson Drive in Colfax.
The Rapides Parish Police Jury on Monday voted to officially oppose the permit modification, joining the Grant Parish Police Jury and Colfax Town Council in opposition.
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