Another damn good reason to support our local corn growers by supporting ethanol as an octane booster and renewable fuel additive to gasoline from ENN, and why I will pull away from the pump if I see the sign "contains MTBE" at any gas station I pull into:
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
By Stephen Frothingham, Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — The state sued 22 major oil companies Monday because of the gasoline additive MTBE, which has been found to pollute water, Gov. Craig Benson said.
New Hampshire wants the companies to pay millions of dollars to track down the pollution and pay to clean it up, officials said.
The lawsuit, filed in Merrimack County Superior Court, claims that the oil companies have added increasing amounts of the additive to gasoline, even though they knew years ago it would contaminate water supplies.
"New Hampshire's groundwater and surface waters are under attack," Attorney General Peter Heed said at a news conference with Benson.
He called MTBE "the Houdini of pollutants" because the chemical is water-soluble and seems to be able to escape from ground tanks and pipes.
New Hampshire is the first state to sue oil companies over MTBE, Benson said, although municipal utilities have sued.
In California, Sacramento County and 10 water utilities filed suit last week against major companies over potential MTBE contamination. Utilities in the South Tahoe, Calif., area reached a $28 million settlement with oil companies last year over MTBE pollution.
The companies being sued by New Hampshire include...(Read on in: New Hampshire is suing 22 oil companies over gasoline additive MTBE)
A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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