This is a letter sent by No BioMass Burn's Duff Badgley to Jason Dose, the City of Shelton's planner for the Simpson Incinerator. September 20, 2010
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
Re: Intent to Issue an Incorrect Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance (MDNS) for Simpson Lumber Shelton Biomass Cogeneration Plant (Simpson).
Dear Jason:
The City of Shelton (COS) has so far ignored a host of environmental issues regarding Simpson that would, if properly considered, make mandatory a SEPA recommendation of DS (Determination of Significance) from COS. A dramatic expansion of the scope of your SEPA review of the Simpson application is essential. As a legally sound model to follow, I refer you to a recent summary of the SEPA review Mason County conducted for the Adage/Mason County (Adage) biomass incinerator application. See the attachment.
Some differences between the two applications may exist regarding possible/probable environmental impacts. But the Simpson and Adage applications share so many impacts defined under state and local law that a comparison is essential to understand how COS needs to expand its scope for the Simpson SEPA review—and decide for a Determination of Significance (DS) that would require a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under state SEPA law..
Please see the attached September 10, 2010 letter from Barbara Adkins, Department Manager of the Mason County Department of Community Development. The “proposal” in her letter is Adage’s SEPA application. Adkins’ comments will be in bold....
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ReplyDeleteI tried to leave a response to pinbalwyz but think the Gods of good manners felt my first response was too harsh. So, let me try again: Jason Dose did a great job the evening of the forum. He has to work with the evil-doers, Jay and Tom, every single week at the Port meetings, as well as in all inter-governmental meetings that include the Port and the City. Jason therefore must maintain a cordial relationship with them. This is not "sucking up." You and I can afford to insult Jay and Tom in every posting, we do not have to work with them.
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