Submitted to Shelton Blog by John Cox
According to last week's (8/5/10) Journal, the Port's contract with Adage will contain a provision that requires a bond of $1 million to cover the possibility that, should the incinerator not be able to operate due to lack of available fuel (among other reasons), the money could be used to convert the incinerator to “another use”.
It is a known fact (but rarely admitted) that sufficient fuel for the proposed Adage incinerator will be a problem. In the Jay Hupp video from the 2006 Coastal Bio-Energy forum, he calls the fuel source problem “the 900 pound gorilla in the room”. It seems odd that the biomass incinerator advocates are already planning for the possibility of running out of fuel, and at the same time telling anyone that will listen about the abundance of fuel available for the Adage incinerator.
So, when the slash type fuel runs out, and Adage is long gone, what will happen?. Will the plant be shut down? I don't think so. I suspect that the “plan” is to convert to another fuel. How about trash, garbage, or sewer sludge? They are all considered “biomass”, and the incinerator is designed to burn hot enough to incinerate just about anything. Have you ever been in an area near a garbage/trash incinerator operation? It is a disaster area.
Would ORCAA protect us? I guess the answer depends on your point of view. Is ORCAA protecting us now?
Would ORCAA protect us? I guess the answer depends on your point of view. Is ORCAA protecting us now?
Is this just a paranoid fantasy? A delusional episode? Do we just wait and see?
Quite so! I've suggested this future scenario since I was informed the biomassacre plant is omnivorous. When it runs out of northwest forest material, they aren't going to tear it down. Mason County commissioners will calculate the cost savings of burning solid waste compared to shipping it to a landfill by rail east of the Cascades. Someone should write a book about this travesty. I'd title it: THE RAPE OF MASON COUNTY
ReplyDeleteIt' rape AND pillage.
ReplyDeleteCan't we just use the hot air from Tim Sheldon, Lynda Ring Erickson, and Ross Gallagher?
ReplyDeleteJay Hupp is a fission reaction himself, add tom Wallitner and we could power the world.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=602612
ReplyDeleteTim Sheldon (Potlatch, WA): Mason County Commissioner and State Senator
ReplyDelete"The areas proposed in Mason County are mostly remnant old-growth forests out of the timber base under existing Forest Service regulations. They tend to be steep, rugged terrain that would be difficult and costly to harvest anyway, so this would have a minimal impact on timber coming off the forest. But protecting these upstream watersheds would protect the community investments we are making in restoring salmon habitat downstream, especially in the Skokomish Valley."
Tim Sheldon, Lynda Ring Erickson and Ross Gallagher are supporters of a group called Wild Olympics Campaign...to protect the Olympic Peninsula watershed through.."willing seller National Park additions"....what does that mean?
Could it be the way ADAGE will get to log off the trees in Olympic National Park?