IV8888 looks at the closing of the Doe Run Primary Smelter

Look at the comments and you will see the pro and the con and the flat out hucksters.

Sierra posted on their blog that they don't get their lead from that smelter they get it from a Secondary or Recycling Smelter.  They miss the point.

The Doe Run plant in Herculaneum is the ONLY Primary Smelter.

That is the only smelter in the US that takes the raw ore and does the primary smelt.  The Secondary or recycling smelters cannot repeat CANNOT do a primary extracting smelt of raw ore.

So the raw ore must now be shipped outside of the us for primary extraction and then be brought back into the US.  How much do you think the cost of lead will now go up?  The raw ore now has to be shipped out, processed then brought back in.  What are the tariffs going to be?  How much is the shipping going to be?

So yes the EPA and it's regulations are aimed at our Rights.

You don't have to take my word for it, just look in the news about all the various EPA regulations.

Here is a link to a google search to get you started:   https://www.google.com/search?q=EPA+land+use+regulations&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=EPA+land+use++and+water+rights+regulations&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=off&tbm=nws

On the last Lead Smelter in the US Closing

About the Lead Smelter in Herculaneum closing. I've already seen many from the Left saying there are other smelters and accusing others of being conspiratards.

Please remind them that "Yes, there are still SECONDARY SMELTERS, not Primary Smelters." A primary smelter smelts the lead from raw ore. Using a process similar to a Bessemer blast furnace. a Secondary Smelter uses a different process and cannot process raw ore, only lead that has already been extracted.

So yes we no longer have any way to process lead ore and turn it into semi refined lead. All ore will now have be shipped out of the US for primary extraction of the lead in smelters that don't meet the emission regulations that the Doe Run smelter already does.

So how are the newer more stringent regulations helping the environment?

When they force the closure of a plant that already meets very stringent regulations and employs 100's of tax paying individuals, the tax revenue is lost and the lead ore will now be smelted in a facility that will pour an untold amount of particulate matter into our atmosphere which the Doe Run Plant trapped.

Great Job EPA.

Own a Wood Burning Stove? The EPA wants to regulate it even more.

The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that? Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove changeout programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.

WHAT!?!?

So if I go out looking SPECIFICALLY for an old pot-bellied stove like the kind my aunt and uncle had in their living room when I was a kid I can't buy it?  Not even as an antique?  What are these bozos smoking? Cause it sure seems to be on the controlled list.  Do they have a medical card for it?

Many people can't afford to replace their old stoves with the more modern ones unless they sell their old one to someone else.  According to these new regs, the only way it can be sold is as broken up scrap.  Who wants to buy a broken up scrap cast iron stove?

The EPA has been trying to ban, outlaw and destroy the wood burning stove market for YEARS.  This might finally be the straw that breaks the camels back for the market, forcing several manufacturers out of business.  If no one can afford to buy their government mandated stoves, they'll have no choice but to go out of business.  Losng more jobs, and TAX money in the process.

More Idiots.

Get ready for your electricity rate to skyrocket

"However, ACCCE notes that EPA policies may have played a role more than 4,800 megawatts of announced closures not included on in their report which would bring total shutdowns to 241 coal generator in 30 states — more than 36,000 MW of electric generation or 11 percent of the U.S. coal fleet."


Click the above link to read, and click the link he has posted.  Really Really go read.

H/t Insty