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Thick smoke appears to be coming from the ship docked at the oil refinery (or maybe the refinery itself) and blowing into New Haven. It seems to be intermittent but incredibly foul smelling.
Thick smoke appears to be coming from the ship docked at the oil refinery (or maybe the refinery itself) and blowing into New Haven. It seems to be intermittent but incredibly foul smelling.
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CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Has anyone recently studied the impact of the pollution created by our port?
In some areas, ships are required to burn cleaner fuels when they are within 5 miles of port, and shut their engines off as soon as they arrive.
I've often wondered if the ones docked here are burning raw "bunker oil" (about the most toxic mess you can imagine).
Anonymous (Guest)
it's a little dark but here's the culprit.
i agree, the air in New Haven is bad to begin with. it's upsetting to think how long our city has been complacent with these smoke belching refineries.
Brown Air and Water (Guest)
I saw that ship belching thick smoke at 730 PM last night. Wonder how long it lasted--when was the picture taken?
For future accountability, photos that include a vessels name on the stern can be taken from the northernmost shore of East Shore Park.
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CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
More on "bunker fuel"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html
n London, on the south bank of the Thames looking across at the Houses of Parliament, is the International Maritime Organisation, the UN body that polices the world’s shipping.
For decades, the IMO has rebuffed calls to clean up ship pollution. As a result, while it has long since been illegal to belch black, sulphur-laden smoke from power-station chimneys or lorry exhausts, shipping has kept its licence to pollute.
For 31 years, the IMO has operated a policy agreed by the 169 governments that make up the organisation which allows most ships to burn bunker fuel.
Christian Eyde Moller, boss of the DK shipping company in Rotterdam, recently described this as ‘just waste oil, basically what is left over after all the cleaner fuels have been extracted from crude oil. It’s tar, the same as asphalt.
It’s the cheapest and dirtiest fuel in the world’.
Bunker fuel is also thick with sulphur. IMO rules allow ships to burn fuel containing up to 4.5 per cent sulphur. That is 4,500 times more than is allowed in car fuel in the European Union. The sulphur comes out of ship funnels as tiny particles, and it is these that get deep into lungs.
Thanks to the IMO’s rules, the largest ships can each emit as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur in a year – the same as 50million typical cars, each emitting an average of 100 grams of sulphur a year.
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http://seeclickfix.com/issues/44308
I suspect the smoking ship was adding to another ongoing issue of toxic emissions from a business located on the I91 corridor in, or near New Haven, North Haven, Southern Hamden.
Brian Tang (Registered User)
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Anonymous (Guest)
Fishing on the T Bridge? I hope you're enjoying your toxic catch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Sound#Pollution
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Brett (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Yes it was pretty bad yesterday too.
I'm not sure what those ships are burning - anyone know?
lb (Guest)
The ships usually burn number6 fuel oil, the bottom of the barrel akin to tar full of a lot of contaminants like mercury that are toxic. Shipping is regulated by federal law; Los Angeles CA was successful after years of trying to reduce pollution from this source. Residents in Morris Cove complain about soot from the ships sailing in and out. I was told that they don't spend a lot of time in port; just enough to offload their oil but they use the ship engine to power the ship and the pumps to deliver their product. New Haven is the site of terminal that feeds oil throughout New England via pipeline.
If you're interested in working on air pollution issues in New Haven the New Haven Environmental Justice Network (google group contact) would be a good place to meet people that have worked and are working in this area.
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