Evergreen's Incinerator is #1 on WA Commerce Dept. Grants for Energy
We said it in July. We'll say it again. Evergreen and the highest levels of WA government have long since decided to build the highly-polluting biomass incinerator next to the Evergreen campus daycare center. The fix has been on for a long time. College administrators denying this obvious truth are either colluding or dupes.
So glad to see the rising tide of students aggressively opposing the burner. These young students know what their elders have forgotten--burning our forests in the name of "sustainability" is a lethal lie. And the $3,700,000 WA grant to build the incinerator mouths the same old deception:
| "Install a biomass gasification plant that will allow the college to significantly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels..." |
Studies accepted by the EPA and reputable scientists around the world show replacing fossil fuels with biomass fuels INCREASES carbon emissions. The Evergreen biomass incinerator would DOUBLE carbon emissions compared to the current natural gas boiler heating campus buildings.
Here is the link to the list of awards for the Governor's $31M grant for energy savings.
www.governor.wa.gov/news/Commerce_Grants_Oct_2010.pdf
The press release can be found at:
http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1588&newsType=1
Evergreen will get $3.7M to build their burner. If they tell you they are still in the "thinking about it stage" tell them to let you hold the money until they are done.
Duff Badgley
No Biomass Burn
Will this also be exempt from EPA edicts for burn bans in the state of Washington?
ReplyDeleteORCAA uses air pollution stages based on the local atmospheric measurements. Stage 1 and 2 are what we normally experience in this area. ORCAA doesn't require "industrial" polluters to stop until it goes to stage 3. We, the people, have burn bans at stages 1 and 2. Industries can keep polluting because the rules are written to not interfere with their profit$ too much.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that this is such a common theme these days in the land of the free. Profit$ first, people second.