Tag: smelting

El Paso–Activists – Local

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Bill Addington and Jorge Villalobos discuss what was known when, what came to be known in 2000s, about the hazardous waste shipments to the ASARCO plant.

 

 

Bill Addington on current issues over redevelopment of the site; questions of responsibility for its contamination.

 

 

Catherine Wilson-Shupe, Jorge Villalobos, Joe Piñon, Jose Manuel Escobedo, and Mario Navarez on company and others such as Landrigan who knew, came to know about lead’s dangers early on.

 

 

Joe Piñon, Chris Sellers, Bill Addington on what’s “acceptable” for lead exposures in children today.

 

 

Juan Garza on how he first got to know about lead hazards in EPA sponsored community meetings.

 

 

Juan Garza on rise of EPA and local Health Dept efforts to address lead in the neighborhoods.

 

 

Juan Garza on Get the Lead Out’s effort to get Health Dept testing in homes, unreleased results.

 

El Paso – Workers in Local Industry

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Frank Attaguilo talks about the end to having separate showers for Anglo and Mexican/Latino workers; conflicts.

 

 

Charlie Rodriguez about changing education levels, slowly more English speaking workforce as grounds for fighting back.

 

 

Catherine Wilson-Shupe, Jorge Villalobos, Joe Piñon, Jose Manuel Escobedo, and Mario Navarez on company and others such as Landrigan who knew, came to know about lead’s dangers early on.

 

 

Mario Navarez and Chris Sellers on experiencing mental effects from lead.

 

 

Charlie Rodriguez on how workers effectively exposed to much higher levels of lead and arsenic because of equipment.

 

 

Charlie Rodriguez on whistle-blower report inside company, how higher-ups decided to incinerate wastes anyway.

 

 

Mario Navarez on the CONTOP technology, why he thinks it was actually introduced to incinerate wastes.

 

 

Mario Navarez and Frank Attaguilo on blood monitoring and experiences of lead poisoning in the workplace.

 

 

Frank Attaguilo and Jorge Villalobos on where the machinery of the El Paso Smelter went when it shut down.

 

 

Charlie Rodriguez, Catherine Wilson-Shupe, and Jorge Villalobos on water pollution and use by smelters they know.

 

 

El Paso Witness Seminar I

Our first El Paso Witness Seminar was held from 2:30-5:30 pm on Saturday, August 3, 2013, in the Maud Sullivan Room at the El Paso Public Library, 501 North Oregon Street in El Paso, Texas.

Welcome and Introductions (23 minutes):

Brief words of welcome from moderator Christopher Sellers. Everyone around the table introduces themselves.

Opening Statements by Seminar Leaders (starting 00:23:20; 19 minutes):

What event or development stands out the most in your recollections of the last 25 years of smelter—community relations, and why?

Statements by Carlos Rodriguez, Jorge Villalobos, Joe Pinon, Bill Addington.

Commentary by Others (starting 00:42:01; 8 minutes)

Advantages/Disadvantages of Having Smelter in El Paso (Prior to Closure) (starting
00:49:56; 53 minutes):

For you personally, prior to smelter’s closure what were the main advantages and disadvantages of having the smelter in or near your community?
Do you remember any ways that your sense of the balance between these advantages and disadvantages changed over the final twenty-five or so years of the plant’s history?

Changing knowledge and Recommendations for Lead Exposure (starting  02:00:55; 44 minutes):

Discussion of growing concern about lower-level exposures to lead among national public health experts, when and how El Pasoans may have learned of this knowledge.

 


Opening Statements by Seminar Leaders

Commentary by Others

Advantages/Disadvantages of Having Smelter in El Paso (Prior to Closure)

Changing knowledge and Recommendations for Lead Exposure