Stop the refinery, save the Kootenai River

C6 Zero has silently taken up amongst our North Idaho lifestyle and is threatening refinery in the beautiful Bonners Ferry just a short distance of the Kootenai River.

Having registered their location just off Cow Creek Road in October 2021. They relocated their address of manufacturing to Bonners Ferry after being forced out of Colorado. Their owner, Howard Brand, is intending to store the waste materials at the onsite, and return byproducts, one of which he claims will be high grade refined oil. Oil is refined, it is not manufactured as they are stating.  The petroleum product would be stored, and trucked 24/7 through the streets of the small town of Bonners Ferry. Neighboring homes have not been informed, the city has not been consulted, and like the CO adventure, they have not made any attempt to receive authorization to manufacture and absent of clean up plans for environmental impact and water impact. The Kootenai River flows through Canada, flows through Montana and Idaho, and is a major water source.  

We need answers, permits, and solutions or we need C6 Zero to relocate to somewhere other than Idaho, but good luck finding their phone number. Not unlike the Newport smelter that also come to us from out of state to use us as a dumping ground. They registered out of state to slide under the radar. The proposed system is not patented, as they claim, so they have little R&D into the process and environmental outcomes if any.

SUZANNE GLASOE

Sandpoint