Fiery explosions overnight at a hazardous materials plant owned and run by Environmental Quality Industrial Services forced 16,000 residents in the middle of the night from their homes.

EQ Industrial Services is based in Wayne, Michigan. Michael Ferrantino, CEO has given Michigan politicians quite a bit of money.

Scores of people were hospitalized by the disaster caused by EQ Industrial Services in Apex, North Carolina.

Roiling smoke and flames boiled 150 feet into the night air. A toxic plume of smoke drifted through the streets sickening everyone it came in contact with.

Chemicals including cadmium, chromium, mercury and hazardous organic materials were burned at high temperature and cast into the air in minute droplets easily absorbed into the skin and through the mucous membrane in the nose and through the mouth and even ears of residents.

EQ Industrial Services is associated with a company called Wayne Disposal. The EPA has Super Fund sites in Michigan. Those are locations so polluted that they are an immediate and present danger to the local population not to mention the environment. At one time the EPA declared that the company that owned one of the Super Fund sites in Wayne County, Michigan, must immediately clean it up. They allowed that company truck material from that landfill to another one that they owned. Nice arrangement for the company and the EPA but the problem is still here.

In Apex, North Carolina, I understand that the chemicals that burned ignited some aviation fuel tanks nearby which made the situation worse.

I don’t know who owns the aviation fuel tanks but apparently EQ provides aviation services at other locations in the United States. I would thoroughly investigate what happened in Apex and keep an eye on what happens next. I am not making any allegations, I am just suggesting that be aware of what is going on.

I am disappointed that so many politicians have taken money from this company. The damage that imported waste and spills and fires and other accidents have caused is indeterminate. There are major problems with PCB’s in Ann Arbor but no one can tell if the chemicals came from a high pressure toxic waste injection well or the facilities of EQ. The impact on our children and our future cannot be underestimated.

To have one company control so much of this dangerous business is hazardous enough. When that company starts making mistakes that rush sixteen thousand people out of their houses in the middle of the night then something has to be done.

I do not believe that people who handle items that can make you sick should be making decisions about healthcare. Do you?

I do not believe that people who handle items that can poison your water should be making decisions about water quality. Do you?

I do not believe that people who handle items that can destroy the ability of your children to have normal children themselves should be making decisions about the environment and they certainly should not be sticking their nose into education. Do you?

I do not believe that people whose activities lower real estate values should be influencing state laws about property. Do you?

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the people and companies that are involved.

The folks in Michigan that are taking money from this company are :

Representative McCotter

1632 Longworth House Office Building

Washington DC 20515

202.225.8171 tel

202.225.2667 fax

Senator Bruce Patterson

PO Box 30036

Lansing, MI 48909-7536

By Phone: (517) 373-7350

Representative Phil LaJoy

N0785 House Office Building

P.O. Box 30014

Lansing, MI 48909-7514

Fax: 517-373-5939

Phone: 517-373-2575

Commitee to Elect Mark J. Abbo

PO Box 822

Northville, Michigan 48167

734-927-1987

United States Senator John Thune

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

202-224-2321

Representative Mike Rogers

133 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20515

Phone: (202) 225-4872

Fax: (202) 225-5820

Representative Candice Miller

228 Cannon House Office Building

Washington D.C. 20515

202.225.2106

(F) 202.226.1169

Locations that EQ works in :

Corporate Office

36255 Michigan Ave.

Wayne, Michigan 48184

(734) 329-8000

Michigan Disposal Waste Treatment Plant

49350 North I-94 Service Drive

Belleville, Michigan 48111

(800) 592-5489

Wayne Disposal, Inc.

49350 North I-94 Service Drive

Belleville, Michigan 48111

(800) 592-5489

EQ Resource Recovery, Inc.

36345 Van Born Road

Romulus, Michigan 48174

(734) 727-5500

EQ Industrial Services, Inc.

2701 North I-94 Service Drive

Ypsilanti, MI 48198

(734) 547-2500

EQ Detroit, Inc.

1923 Frederick

Detroit, MI 48211

(313) 923-0080

EQRR Distribution Center

14000 Stansbury Ave.

Detroit, Michigan 48227

(313) 273-7504

EQIS Indianapolis Transfer and Processing

4000 West 10th Street

Indianapolis, Indiana 46222

(317) 247-7160

EQIS Emergency Response

2701 North I-94 Service Drive

Ypsilanti, MI 48198

(734) 547-2500

Northeast Facilities and OfficesEQ Northeast, Inc.

185 Industrial Road

Wrentham, MA 02093

(508) 384-6151

Southeast Facilities and OfficesEQIS Atlanta Transfer and Processing

5600 Fulton Industrial Blvd.

Atlanta, Georgia 30336

(404) 494-3520

EQ Augusta, Inc.

3920 Goshen Industrial Blvd.

Augusta, GA 30906

(706) 771-9100

EQ Florida, Inc.

7202 East Eighth Ave.

Tampa, FL 33619

(800) 624-5302

EQIS North Carolina

1005 Investment Blvd.

Apex, NC 27502

(919) 363-4700

EQ Mobile Recycling, Inc.

W. Independence Blvd.

Mt. Airy, NC 27030

(336) 719-0058

EQ Airport Services - Pittsburgh

P.O. Box 12286

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15231

(412) 472-1007

(412) 472-1044

EQ Airport Services - Salt Lake City

P.O. Box 16109

Salt Lake City, Utah 84116

(801) 531-4679

(801) 531-4677