Adage’s proposed Biomass incinerator will rain toxic pollutants on the people of Shelton and Mason County. ADAGE’s permit application for a biomass incinerator proposed for Hamilton County, Florida—a plant identical to the one proposed for Shelton—lists 52 Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) that would be emitted from their incinerator. Lethal levels of particulate matter (PM) are listed, as well as dioxin, arsenic, mercury, lead, carbon monoxide, chloroform, formaldehyde, and sulfurous acid. Air pollution controls will not protect us from lethal levels of Particulate Matter (PM) that can kill from a single exposure. Emissions of the smallest and possibly most dangerous PM are completely unregulated. Existing regulations for emissions of the next smallest category of PM are not sufficiently “stringent” to prevent “adverse cardiovascular effects.” And if that’s not enough, what plans are in place for the waste? When you burn wood you get ash. When you add water you get lye, one of the most caustic chemicals on the planet. And when you put the stuff in a landfill, there goes the drinking water for miles around and decades on.
Still…someone at Evergreen State College drank the koolade. Call Scott Morgan at the college ask him how it is that Evergreen is considering a biomass project on its pristine forested campus. Scott’s number is 360-867-6913. and you might want to have a look at www.climatesos.org.And finally this from the same people who brought you the Parthenon: Yesterday in a suburb of Athens the administrator of the most popular political and social blog in Greece, "Troktiko" - the Rodent - was assassinated. Troktiko was known for its controversial political articles, stigmatizing the former, right wing government of New Democracy. Troktiko.blogspot.com surpassed many international web sites in traffic. The site’s administrator, journalist writer and radio producer Socrates Giolias was executed in a barrage of bullets, outside his residence in Ilioupolis. Troktiko acquired a huge followship of readers but also apparently made enemies in the nation’s ‘dark areas’. The “birthplace of democracy” takes one for the home team.
- KBOO