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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Dennis </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Obviously Victor Posner did not get that
message!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">BTW, Sharon Steel had a byproduct coke oven at
Fairmont, W. Va. It apparently never received pollution control devices
(considering ownership, is that at all surprising?) and was known as the worst
environmental problem in the area. It closed in 1979.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ge13031@yahoo.com href="mailto:ge13031@yahoo.com">Dennis Lamont</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dwightlong@verizon.net
href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net">Dwight Long</A> ; <A
title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and
Coal</DIV>
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<DIV
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coke ovens went out with oil lamps. <BR>
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<DIV>Attached is a postcard of Lorain Works proudly sitting under the mushroom
cloud of its coke works. I think it was around the first world war that
the Germans developed coar tar chemistry and it million byproducts.
Under the clean air act it made sense to consolidate coke making at one huge
facilitry because of the huge cost of emission control. One of the
reasons that Clairton was chosen was because of it's large gas contracts in
"da Valley", the other of course was it's proximity to the coal fields.
Not too many folk missed the coke plant or the Open Hearth when they shut down
at Lorain and the skys turned blue.</DIV>
<DIV>Dennis<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">I went by Clairton on a train in July and did
not notice any smoke at all, just some condensed water vapor. I think
the coking processes are so contained these days that very little emissions
emanate from it. Besides environmental concerns, the steelmakers have
learned that the effluents from the coke making process are valuable by
products that need to be trapped and sold. The days of the beehive coke
ovens that spewed all the byproducts into the atmosphere are long
gone.</FONT></DIV>
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