Note about tire burning for fuel.

Hi Art: The Kaiser Cement kiln TDF tests place a shadow on the other tests.  Kaiser Cement claims that it uses the best technology of all the kilns. And it is claimed that the Kaiser TDF test was the best one done. But in the Kaiser test, NOx went up, however, SOx down (we think this -- SOx-- is probably due to the fact that they used different limestone in the TDF part of the test but we cannot state this at this time). One of the main reasons the Bay Area Air District gave for encouraging and supporting Kaiser burning tires was that they believed that NOx would go down; however even though it went up, the District continued to support tire burning. Most toxics emissions went up including dioxin. In the Kaiser tests and Santa Cruz kiln tests dioxin went up.

None of these tests prove that tire burning is safe nor that it shows no significant increase in risk.

What we have found is that one must look beyond the report summaries. The summaries do not reflect the data from the reports themselves and are biased in favor of the results wanted by the industries and the govt agencies.

The study that claimed to show that tire burning in cement kilns did not significantly increase risk, Dammes and Moore, was invalided and shown to be unacceptable science by WVCAW and by a panel of 7 PhD scientists -- email on this to follow.

Read from WVCAW DEIR comments and read from the panel of scientists comments on the Dammes and Moore report and WVCAW 5 page critique of Dammes and Moore.

Also see Carman and Schwartz documents which follow.

This is completely bogus, thanks for fighting it. We do not want to see any other cement kilns in CA burning tires for fuel and increasing air pollution in other communities over and above coal burning which is already very bad.

We have killed one tire burning bill and gutted two others. We are going to attempt some legislation of our own this year.

We have the support of people in the Santa Cruz community now also in our efforts as they realize that their kiln is not safe from tire burning even though they were able to stop tire burning about 6 years ago through community opposition. However, tire burning legislation could put all the kilns at even more risk from tire burning.

Please note also that most if not all of the kilns currently burning coal and coal and tires used to burn natural gas for fuel. That is what they should return to burning for fuel. They could do so today. I think that they all have backup gas burning ability still and could convert back with minimal expense very easily. That is what we should be asking for them to do and that is what the Air Districts should be mandating.

I am sending you documents by email and will fax you additional info later.
Thanks so much for your interest and effort. We can stop this travesty if we just have enough assistance from the various communities and from Sierra Club and other environmental organizations, Joyce