Utah Doctors Join the Occupy Movement

Taking creativity from the Take up activity, in late January a group of doctors and ecological groups in Sea Pond Town, Ut, declared a litigation against the third-largest exploration business on the planet, Rio Tinto, for breaking the Fresh Air Act in Ut. This is likely the first time ever that doctors have charged market for injuring community wellness.



Air air polluting of the planet causes between 1,000 and 2,000 early fatalities every season in Ut.

(1) Moreover, scientific research in the last ten decades has strongly established that air air polluting of the planet causes the same wide array of ailments well known to result from first- and used cigarettes - cerebral vascular accidents, cerebral vascular accidents, blood pressure level levels, essentially every kind of lungs disease, neurologic ailments like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, loss of intellect, genetic damage, higher rates of diabetes, being overweight, negative birth results, and various cancer such as united states, cancer malignancy of the breast and the leukemia disease. (2-12)

Most of Utah's places are in abuse of many of the Environmental Security Agency's (EPA) national air excellent expectations, and for several days during a typical winter, Ut is affected by the worst air air polluting of the planet in the nation. The National Lung Association consistently gives Utah's biggest places an "F" for our air excellent. Last March, Forbes Journal, hardly a supporter for excessive ecological protection, rated Sea Pond Town as the 9th most harmful city in the nation, and the biggest factor to that ranking was the exploration and smelting functions at the Bingham Canyn my own, run by London-based exploration business unfortunatly Rio Tinto/Kennecott (RTK). (13)

This is the biggest open-pit my own and has created the biggest mining-related water excellent problem on the planet. The my own is located on the western home of Sea Pond Town, home to 1.8 thousand individuals. There is no equivalent juxtaposition of an enormous exploration function this close to such a large city center. RTK's my own and smelter functions account for 30 % of the air particle matter produced into the climate over Sea Pond Nation (14), creating it by far the biggest resource of industrial air polluting of the planet in the places of Ut.

The smelting functions and fugitive dust from the 1,100-foot-high waste rock loads and tailings waters are a continuous resource of highly harmful steel disease - lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium - to the air, water and ground of Utah's biggest city.  The exploration market watch dog Earthworks states that before the most lately approved development, RTK was publishing 695 thousand pounds of harmful material into the Sea Pond Town environment every season. (15) Because pollutants do not lower, are not flammable and cannot be demolished, that steel poisoning continuously improves season after season, as it has for the over 100 decades of the mine's function. Despite this extreme problem on community wellness, naturally, the Ut Category of Air Quality lately released a permit for RTK to grow their functions by 32 %, which will make their air polluting of the planet pollutants even worse.

RTK is creating history profits - $15 thousand last season. In May, Chairman of the Panel Jan du Plessis boasted, "Rio Tinto has produced another set of record-breaking results." Du Plessis seemingly focuses on providing pollution: he is also chairman of the board of English National Tobacco. Tom Albanese, Rio Tinto's CEO, who made almost $8.5 thousand in compensation last season, lately reported, "[Rio Tinto must do] a better job at handling the problem of resource nationalism ... and the activism of stakeholder wedding." (16) Let me change that for you:  individuals around the community are sick and worn out of being used for gain, they're starting to stand up for themselves and Rio Tinto doesn't like it. Ut people sick and worn out of RTK's air polluting of the planet would be considered part of that "curse" to Rio Tinto professionals.

This issue is simple: RTK can well afford to clear up up, but they won't, and no one is creating them. Their factor to our air polluting of the planet is injuring all the people of Sea Pond Town and adding to the early death total mentioned above. For ecological and community wellness supports, RTK seeking and receiving an acceptance to grow was the last hay.

If the core tenet of the Take up activity is that organizations and the 1 % change every level of government to serve their profit-driven times and at the same time neglect - if not freely challenge - the interests of the 99 %, then there is no better example than RTK's function of Utah's Bingham Canyn my own.

The Ut Physicians for Healthy Environment calculate that the death rate, wellness and ecological costs to the community from RTK air polluting of the planet is between $2 thousand and $4 thousand, more than the value of the income and taxation that they pay. However, a massive advertising budget allows RTK to intensely promote themselves as "job providers" and take essentially no liability for the various ecological and wellness repercussions of their functions.

Frederick Douglass, the19th-century city rights leader, said, "Find out just what any individuals will gently send to and you have found out the exact measure of disfavor and wrong which will be added upon them." Let it be known that the individuals in Ut will no longer "quietly submit" to more air polluting of the planet, more fatalities, reduced life ranges and not as good wellness to fatten the accessories in the Manchester boardroom of Rio Tinto. We are going to "take back" the air we inhale and exhale.