Simpson Submits ORCAA Air Permit Renewal ApplicationPublic Comments Accepted Until 8/15/11
FROM: "Jason Dose" jasond@ci.shelton.wa.us
Good Morning.
You are receiving this e-mail because you have expressed interest in the proposed Solomon biomass facility to be located on the Oakland Bay waterfront, within the Simpson Lumber Mill Industrial site, in Shelton, Washington.
This e-mail is being sent to you as a courtesy and clarification that Simpson Lumber Company has submitted a renewal application for their existing Air Operating Permit (AOP) through the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA). Here is a link to the notice and application materials on the ORCAA website:
http://www.orcaa.org/public-involvement/draft-air-operating-permits/#simpson
It is my understanding that this application is for renewal of Simpson's existing AOP and is not related to the Solomon proposal. Questions regarding the application should be directed to ORCAA staff at the contact information provided in the notice and application materials (see link above).
Jason Dose
Senior Planner
City of Shelton
525 West Cota Street
Shelton, WA 98584
Phone: (360) 432-5102
FAX: (360) 426-7746
E-mail: jasond@ci.shelton.wa.us
SHELTON BLOG NOTE:
Link to Simpson AOP info on ORCAA website:
http://www.orcaa.org/public-involvement/draft-air-operating-permits/#simpson
Link to Mark Goodin email form to submit comments:
http://www.orcaa.org/about/staff-directory/email-mark-goodin/
For the air breathers in Shelton and Mason County, as well as those who love shellfish and seafood, this is an important opportunity to carefully scrutinize what Simpson says and what ORCAA permits.
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone will review the Air Operating Permit document carefully. If reading that document leaves you with more questions than answers, please call and write ORCAA and request a public hearing. Only if ORCAA receives LOTS of requests for a public hearing will we be granted one.
OUR FAILURE TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING WILL MEAN ORCAA GETS TO DECIDE ON THE AIR OPERATING PERMIT WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CITIZEN INPUT.
The comments against adage ran long into the evening in the second half of the ORCAA public hearings. Long after the out-of-town union folk ran out of reasons why jobs should trump human life, anti-adage residents of Shelton and Mason County were still eloquently speaking to the health dangers adage presented.
The difference between the adage facility and the Simpson facility are geography and the name of the operating company.
Keep it light,
Katherine
Katherine makes an important point that speaks directly to the concerns of those less interested in preserving our environment than making money. I posed this exact question to Steve Bloomfield of Seattle Shellfish, sometime shortly after Adage made fools of so many in our community.
ReplyDeleteI asked Steve how he could have supported an industry that threatened shellfish growers when doing so jeopardized his very livelihood. His answer was less convincing than it was confusing, which I took as a lack of understanding. And it is with this in mind I see some leeway into proponents of biomass to energy proposals.
The truth of the matter is that methods utilized in timber harvesting have a negative impact on water quality, which is a critical component of sustainable shellfish harvesting.
As environmental activists, our objective is better served by finding such threads of common ground with disciples of business, effectively turning opponents into supporters. In this way, the means not only justifies the end, but may be the only method left by which we can alter the course of an increasingly mercenary world.
"Threads of common ground..."
ReplyDeleteRather than embracing those things that separate us, and that keep us separate, we should focus on those things we have in common.
Great idea Tom! Can we make it work?