Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 5, 1989, Ukiah, California Insurance commissioner pulls out of the race of the Week 6 Journal 1989 129 197 18 pages Serving Mendocino 25 cents Group wood preservers worked in collusion By CLYDE WEISS Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Envir Protection Agency work ed in collusion with the wood preserving industry to propose weak hazardous waste the environmental group Green peace charged in a report issued this The quickly disputed by the EPA and the wood preserving relies heavily on the account of EPA chemist and gov whistleblower Gate Jenk Greenpeace charges industry proposed weak waste regulations who claims superiors tried to get her to write lenient regulations to control the use and disposal of wood preservative and then removed her from her post when she The The Politics of Pen focuses on Jenkins efforts to write regulations for pentachloro an organic chemical that contains a compound which has been proved to cause cancer in laboratory The proposed regulations would affect about 600 plants nationwide that treat telephone poles and other outdoor wood products with the Koppers and Louisiana Pacific in and Coast Wood Preserving of are among the companies on the national Super fund priority list for cleanup of penta Greenpeace authors Carol Van Strum and Paul Merrell contend inherent weaknesses in our envir such as the use of have allowed economic interests to override effective protection of our In an Jenkins said the Greenpeace report documents quite thoroughly there is corruption Three wise men and 400 friends A crowd of about 400 people attended Mon days annual tree lighting ceremony In downtown Mem bers of the choir above sang and Karen Dunn Introduced her daughter to the three wise men Scott Dick Drury and Paul Duble from and the Night The wise men came at the Invitation of and the Ukiah Main Street which co sponsored the event with Ukiah Chamber of Commerce and the City of those attending went down town to look at the Christmas displays and drink hot elder In some of the stores stayed open until about donated to Food Bank brings total to nearly Donations of today to the Ukiah Food Bank brought the total to A goal of has been set by the Journal to help the food bank meet its 1990 operational These expenses include the storage and distribution facilities for the food that is given out to people every The in conjunction with the Donrey Public has held a fundraising drive for the past three Each have far exceeded the goal Todays contributions were made by Scherf and Dave and Sue Thomas and Suzanne Linda and John Sheridan Don and Ruth Donald and Dorothy Charles and Esther Maxine Stella Brian and two anonymous donations one for and one for All donations are tax Make checks payable to the Donrey Public Bring them to Jeanne Woll at the 590 School or mail them to the Ukiah Daily Box FOOD BANK DONATIONS in EPA with respect to wood pre servative She said her account of close cooperation between the industry and the EPA is and added congressional officials and the FBI are looking into her which have been detailed to congressional committees before but never fol lowed We flatly deny giving any pre ference to responded EPA spokesperson Robin We will consider comments from all public groups in our final deci sion on the EPAs proposed wood preservative due next The EPA has taken major steps to regulate penta to fully protect human health and the environ Woods We are cur rently considering regulating addi tional wastes generated by the wood preserving industry as See Back Page Open pit mine hearing draws a large crowd By LOIS OROURKE Journal Staff A proposed open pit chromite mine near Cow Mountain would yield tons of the mineral a year for 40 according to officials from a Santa Rosa firm that wants to mine the Representatives from Strategic Technical Laboratory were in Ukiah Monday evening to explain their plans for extracting the ore from the Cow Mountain Recrea tional Nearly 150 people packed the Bureau of Land Management office to air their concerns about the proposed open pit Residents of Mill Creek Road and Mendocino County environ mentalists were in attendance to hear the Most of those attending ex pressed concerns about traffic and possible damage to One resident of Mill Creek Road expressed his frustration when he blasted the STL Representatives said Mill Creek Road an unpaved rural road may be used as an access road to the mine site on Red You are talking as if it has been As owners of we are going to have to put up with your the Mill Creek road resident Were here because we asked for this Terry STL Barone told the crowd if com pany representatives find over whelming opposition to the STL will not proceed with the Were not going to spend 10 years fighting it in Barone If your concerns are not we dont want to do business he Barone said some blasting would but it would be monitored for decibel Resi dents as well as county agencies would be notified BLM Area Manager Catherine Robertson told those in attendance that STL has yet to file a complete plan of operation with the She said BLM officials will not begin an analysis of environmental impacts until a complete plan of operations is Written com ments will be accepted by BLM until Robertson said STL will have receive permits from the Mendo cino County Planning and Building the Air Pollution Control the Public Works the California Water Quality Control as well as the The open pit mine is proposed for a 20acre area on the crest of Red Mountain in the Cow Moun tain Recreation Area southeast of A total of nine tons of the ore would be mined each five days a from April through loaders and a dump truck would be used in the mining Six truckloads of the ore would be shipped each day of Barone said the total operation would employ six to eight people and added he hoped the employ ment base and related services would come from Mendocino Chromite is an ore from which chromium is Chromium is used as a noncorrosive plating on as an alloy in an additive in paint and wood preservatives and for the produc tion of Barone said chromium is also considered a strategic mineral for the United States which means it would be needed to supply the military during a national The ore has not been found or produced in sufficient quantities in the to meet those Robertson said she expects the BLM review of the proposal will take longer than 90 She said that will not begin until STL has submitted a complete plan of Gillespie bows out of race SAN FRANCISCO AP State Insurance Commissioner Gillespie has withdrawn from the rape to win back her office when it becomes an elected post for the first time next an appointee of Repu George was the best known Republican campaigning for the But she was the most sial in either party because of her role in implementing Proposition The only other Republican cam for the job is Huntington Beach Mayor Wes an independent insurance Democrats either in the race or floating trial balloons include Con way a member of the State Board of Equalization television commentator and Wal ter executive director of California Common telephoning said of Gillespies decision I think its a lesson in political Zelman Having dropped out of the race she has a truly enhanced opportunity u provide a public service by making the law Gillespie said she wanted to serve the people of California unencumbered by the distractions of political fundraising and a divi sive political She added in a written statement that she has also decided not to seek employment in the insurance industry when my term in office expires next The 47yearold for mer attorney for the San Francisco Sec Back Page
