Where are Details for Nippon ORCAA Application?

Submitted to Shelton Blog by Duff Badgley

ORCAA REFUSES TO MAKE PUBLIC 3-MONTH-OLD INCINERATOR APPLICATION

The Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA) is refusing to make public a crucial, 3-month-old Port Angeles biomass incinerator application submitted by Nippon, USA. ORCAA confirmed on September 29 that it had received on July 7, 2010 a Nippon application to build a 25MW incinerator inside city limits of Port Angeles. Even after being told ORCAA was in violation of state public notice law, ORCAA engineer Mark Goodin and ORCAA Executive Director Fran McNair refused my request to post the Nippon application to the ORCAA website now. Goodin referred me to another ORCAA engineer who is away on vacation.

The details of the Nippon incinerator application to ORCAA are critical for the public to know so it can assess the toxic air pollution the incinerator would emit. The City of Port Angeles last week gave final approval to two permits for the Nippon incinerator that could clear the way for construction to start--if ORCAA also approves.

The Nippon incinerator in Port Angeles is one of three large, proposed biomass incinerators ORCAA is currently charged with permitting or denying. The two others are in Mason County for Adage (65MW) and Simpson (31MW). In addition, Simpson has announced it would keep open its current biomass incinerator at its mill on the Shelton waterfront, further adding to air pollution expected from the new Simpson burner and from Adage. Simpson had originally stated it would close its existing incinerator when the new burner was built.

Mark Goodin contact info: mark.goodin@orcaa.org; 360-539-7610, ext.108 or 1-800-422-5623, ext.108

Fran McNair contact info: fran.mcnair@orcaa.org; 360-539-7610, or 1-800-422-5623.

Duff Badgley
No Biomass Burn

9/30 UPDATE:
Today, ORCAA has finally made public the Nippon incinerator application!