It Smelled Yesterday and It Smelled Today CITATION #5

Renewable Environmental Solutions LLC (RES) received their 5th Citation for Notice of Excessive Emissions (NOEE) on Friday, July 15, 2005. The Joplin Globe (Saturday, July 16, 2005) reported that Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) received forty-five (45) odor complaints on Thursday. I smelled RES on Friday morning, too, as I drove west on Central Ave. from Garrison Ave. at 7:15 am.

RES blamed the odor on the distillaton process Tuesday, a valve malfunction on Thursday and lab work on Friday. Excuses, excuses! MDNR says that continuing efforts are the reason state officials so far, have not recommended that the odor violations translate to financial penalties, according to Steve Feeler, Chief Enforcement in the state's air-polution control program. At this point RES could face fines up to $10,000 per day.

"Fines are decided by the director's office, but we haven't sought them because they (RES) have continued to implement new odor-control efforts. That could change if they stop cooperating or if the number of voiolations reaches the point where we feel there is no other recourse." http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=196755&PHPSESSID=8a4239f475caf47601c1c77a7768d6ff

THANK YOU to the forty-five (45) Carthage area residents that called MDNR. Please keep the MDNR telephone number handy, 417-891-4300, or their website link, www.dnr.state.mo.us/concern.htm (or you can click on the MDNR Complaint Form link listed under 'Links' to the right).