NEWS
By Laura Cadiz and Laura Cadiz,SUN STAFF | October 7, 2000
Bending to a four-month protest by Solley area residents, Constellation Power Source Generation has agreed to abandon a plan to decrease emissions at the Brandon Shores power plant by using potentially dangerous anhydrous ammonia that would have been transported through the neighborhood daily. During a closed three-hour mediation session Thursday night with representatives of the northern Anne Arundel County community, the company agreed to use aqueous ammonia, a liquid viewed as less dangerous than anhydrous ammonia, which can cause severe lung damage and death in extreme exposure.
NEWS
October 1, 2000
Pasadena area already harbors enough spoil It is encouraging that the Maryland Port Administration (MPA) is considering using dredge spoil to restore sinking islands in the Chesapeake Bay ("Port looks to islands to ease dredging woes," Sept. 9). However, at the same time the MPA was trumpeting its new-found sensitivity to the environment and community, Pasadena residents were shocked to learn the port is considering building a massive, dredge disposal island off our shores (Site 170).
NEWS
By Amanda J. Crawford and Amanda J. Crawford,SUN STAFF | August 31, 2000
State and county officials, representatives of the Brandon Shores power plant and its neighbors have decided to continue meeting - apparently the only official decision reached in the latest attempt to resolve a dispute over plans for an emissions-control system using potentially hazardous anhydrous ammonia. After a meeting at the state Department of Environment headquarters in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, they gave differing accounts on anything else that may have been accomplished to change the plans of Constellation Power Source Generation, which took over operation of the plant in a corporate restructuring of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. "There was no assurance given by BGE officials that they were going to abandon the anhydrous ammonia alternative in the near term," said Del. John R. Leopold, who was one of the Solley community's legislators present.
NEWS
By Amanda J. Crawford | August 31, 2000
State and county officials, representatives of the Brandon Shores power plant and its neighbors have decided to continue meeting - apparently the only official decision reached in the latest attempt to resolve a dispute over plans for an emissions-control system using potentially hazardous anhydrous ammonia. After a meeting at the state Department of Environment headquarters in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, they gave differing accounts on anything else that may have been accomplished to change the plans of Constellation Power Source Generation, which took over operation of the plant in a corporate restructuring of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. "There was no assurance given by BGE officials that they were going to abandon the anhydrous ammonia alternative in the near term," said Del. John R. Leopold, who was one of the Solley community's legislators present.
NEWS
By Scott Calvert and Scott Calvert,SUN STAFF | August 8, 2000
Siding with worried Solley residents, the County Council passed a resolution last night urging the operator of the Brandon Shores power plant to scrap plans to haul a hazardous material through the neighborhood. The vote was 5-1, with Councilman Bill D. Burlison voting no because of the issue's technical nature. Councilwoman Pamela G. Beidle abstained, citing an unspecified potential conflict of interest. The action cannot force the company to do anything. Councilwoman Shirley Murphy, the resolution's sponsor, hopes to put pressure on Constellation Power Source, which operates the plant formerly owned by its sister company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. The move cheered Solley residents who object to Constellation's plan to use anhydrous ammonia - a common industrial chemical that can cause severe lung damage and death in cases of extreme exposure - in a system designed to reduce pollution at the coal-fired Brandon Shores plant.
NEWS
By Stephanie Hanes and Stephanie Hanes,SUN STAFF | August 7, 2000
Solley-area leaders plan to present the County Council tonight with petitions signed by an estimated 1,500 residents who oppose plans to truck a potentially hazardous chemical into a Brandon Shores power plant, community organizers said. It is an attempt, they said, to shed additional light on concerns about anhydrous ammonia, an industrial chemical used to reduce air pollution, but one which can cause severe lung damage and death in extreme exposures. "Petitions are an effective tool to get the attention of the council as well as the county executive," said Del. Mary M. Rosso, a Solley Democrat.