{"id":1328631,"date":"2024-06-07T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1328631"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:32:47","slug":"rally-in-longview-against-proposed-biomining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1328631","title":{"rendered":"Rally in Longview against proposed biomining"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report the City of Longview has tabled a vote on a nearly $20 million investment for a proposed biomining facility. If passed, the facility would be built at 2120 E. Loop 281 and used to recover precious metals from broken computers and outdated tech devices. Residents who oppose the proposed location of the facility held a rally on Thursday ahead of next weeks vote by city council. More than 50 people showed up to the rally held just feet away from the property in question, to take a stand against the proposed location. Some residents said they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the idea that chemicals involved would be used so closely to their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are two chemicals that are used, hydrogen peroxide, which is used in everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure everybody has hydrogen peroxide at home and a two mol sulfuric acid,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wayne Mansfield, Longview Economic Development Corporation (LEDCO) President\/CEO, said<\/p>\n

LEDCO said the biomining facility would not be a danger to the community.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually beneficial to the environment because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s removing computer waste that would have been gone to a landfill with those materials leaching into the soil,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mansfield said.<\/p>\n

Woodland Hills Baptist Church, where Pastor Charles Hunt resides, sits directly across the street from the proposed facility.<\/p>\n

Hunt said he believes the business could be harmful to children in the area.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hallsville Independent School District West Campus is just three blocks down the road from here and then we have probably 50 to 60 homes within just a short distance of here, just a few blocks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hunt said.<\/p>\n

LEDCO also said there would be no health dangers.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no chance of any leakage or anything out, no emissions. The water used in the process is pretreated internally self contained within the industry and recycled back within their process. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no discharge into the city sewer system,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mansfield said.<\/p>\n

Hunt said there is always room for error when it comes to chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report the City of Longview has tabled a vote on a nearly $20 million investment for a proposed biomining facility. If passed, the facility would be built at 2120 E. Loop 281 and used to recover precious metals from broken computers and outdated tech devices. Residents who oppose … Continue reading Rally in Longview against proposed biomining<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1328635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Rally in Longview against proposed biomining","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 08:10:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Rally in Longview against proposed biomining","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328634,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328631\/revisions\/1328634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}