Someone mentioned coal fired
electrical generation plants in Montana I seem to recall in my reading of ABJ a
set of studies long ago relative to some heavy metal that came out of the stack.
My memory seems to suggest that all of a sudden these studies just evaporated as
the product of these mines was being distributed on a much wider scale in most
of the midwest (I think the coal used in the power plant just south of us comes
from Montana).  Anyone know of any studies that would inform of any potential
danger coming out of these smoke stacks.



I and the group I worked for at the time did many of those studies.  Fluoride, sulfurs, metals, are emitted. 

No conspiracy, EPA was concerned about the potential impacts of big coal development in semi-arid prairie regions, funded multi-year, multi-investigator pre- and post- studies of wide array of aspects.  Yes, there were measureable impacts, which were then taken into account re: best available technology for  emissions control, etc. of coal plants built after Colstrip.  That was the purpose of the studies - to assess the bioenvironmental impacts of coal-fired power plants.  
 
 
 
 
J.J. Bromenshenk
Bee Alert
Missoula, Mt
 
 
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From: E.t. Ash <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 7:26 am
Subject: [BEE-L] Organic Honey


a snip from prior comments...
'Have we reached a point where our testing is the
problem?  As mentioned before you can find anything about anywhere. Are we
trying to be insanely strict??'

I have wondered about this myself since it
seem testing long long ago was pretty much limited to parts per million and now
we have the technical capacity to test to parts per billion.  So what was not
that long ago impossible is now the norm.

Someone mentioned coal fired
electrical generation plants in Montana I seem to recall in my reading of ABJ a
set of studies long ago relative to some heavy metal that came out of the stack.
My memory seems to suggest that all of a sudden these studies just evaporated as
the product of these mines was being distributed on a much wider scale in most
of the midwest (I think the coal used in the power plant just south of us comes
from Montana).  Anyone know of any studies that would inform of any potential
danger coming out of these smoke stacks.

This subject start out reflecting on
some ads for honey that stated they were organic when many here I suspect would
doubt this claim.  We have a smaller problem here in Texas in that we have legal
rules concerning claims you can make concerning the selling of honey and what
you can and cannot place on a label but at least here none of these rules are
enforced.  So my question is when you do see claims made on Craigs list and
similar modern day marketing mechanism who do you file notice with that these
claims need to either be withdrawn or verified?  Would or could you post a
protest with folks like Criags List that such claims might well be illegal? 
What is the process and who do you call?

            
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