http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130420/NEWS02/704209926
Biomass plant gets air permit
By Susan Smallheer
Staff Writer | April 20,2013
Rutland Herald
NORTH SPRINGFIELD — The proposed 35-megawatt North Springfield wood-fired power plant received an air permit from the state Friday, which the state said would include state-of-the-art pollution control equipment.
Richard Valentinetti, chief of the air pollution control division, said Friday the permit incorporated the newest technology.
“It’s a very stringent permit, we think, in terms of the emissions coming out of the plant,” Valentinetti said.
“We use the phrase ‘best available control technology,’” Valentinetti said.
According to the permit, the biomass plant is expected to exceed the action level of 35 different hazardous air contaminants, and thus is subject to further state review.
Neither the developers of the proposed North Springfield Sustainable Energy Project nor the leaders of the North Springfield Action Group, which opposes the plant, returned requests for comment on the air permit. The project is still waiting on a decision from the Public Service Board on the project’s all-important certificate of public good.
NoSAG leaders in particular had voiced strong concern about the effect of the emissions coming out of the plant on the North Springfield neighborhood.
Valentinetti said the state tried to take into consideration the dozens of comments that area residents made during a public hearing on the proposed air permit last summer, but he said that by law the state must issue a permit unless there is a compelling reason not to.
Valentinetti said the state had included residents’ concerns about the bowl-like effect, which they said would trap emissions in the region, as well as air quality modeling issues, in the permit, which came out in draft form several months ago.
“We made a lot of changes,” Valentinetti said.
Valentinetti said the North Springfield permit was similar — with some changes — to the air permit granted to the proposed Beaverwood biomass plant in Fair Haven.
While Beaverwood has an air permit, it has withdrawn its overall permit.
Valentinetti noted that the North Springfield project has several other state concerns it must face, including recent concerns raised by the Department of Forestry that the wood-fired plant was not truly sustainable.
North Springfield Sustainable Energy Project has applied for a permit under Section 248 of state utility law. Earlier this month, the first round of hearings concluded, with project developers saying they hoped to have a permit in hand by June.
According to the permit, it can be appealed to the Vermont Environmental Court, but the appeal must be filed within 30 days.
Admin,
ReplyDeletePlease let us comment on your crazy conspiracy theory, propaganda posts on the side bar.
Glenn Beck is now giving the United States Government ultimatums?
Admin, do you believe this was a false flag attack?
Did the U.S Government carry out the 9/11 attack so that Vice President Dick Cheney's many shadow companies could profit from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Chuck is that you or just another leftwing antiAmerican liberal?
DeleteWhat makes this post left-wing and anti american?
DeleteAnything to fuel the "conspiracy theory" that the government was involved with our nations terrorist attacks, past and present.
DeleteSo then you believe the Admin is a left wing and anti american liberal?
Deletere: Anon 2:25
DeleteNo, but why are you trying to create a thread like this under an article it has nothing to do with?
right 4:46 because everyone stays on topic here.
DeleteThe Admin is a huge conspiracy theorist. He has posted numerous articles about 9-11 in the past and clearly from his posts about smart meters he thinks the government is trying to come into your home.
Operation Northwoods was a series of false flag proposals that originated within the United States government in 1962, but were rejected by the Kennedy administration. [2] The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit perceived acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.[3] One part of Operation Northwoods was to develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.
DeleteI'm not into conspiracy theories, 11:44. Also, I don't see any such items as 7:39 saw in the sidebar...
ReplyDeleteChuck check out the Glen Beck posting in RED on the right hand side of the page.
DeleteWhat does that have to do with this Biomass plant?
DeleteIt has everything to do with the biomass plant.
Deletere Anon 3:03
DeleteSo the Biomass project and Glenn Becks article are one in the same??
Yes 8:22, catch up or get out of the way.
DeleteKeep dreaming, there's no connection to the biomass article.
DeleteDid Glenn Beck deliver on his ultimatum?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about?
DeleteGlenn Beck is not mentioned in the Biomass article.
DeleteThe Admin will not allow us to comment on articles he posts on the side bar, so we are forced to comment in regular articles.
DeleteParaphrasing an article that was up there on Friday: Glenn Beck is giving the US Government until April 22nd to come clean about the involvement of a Saudi National in the Boston Marathon Bombings or else.
I am waiting for the or else part, or is Glenn Beck a conspiracy nutjob like those (admin included) who thought 9/11 was a government sponsored attack.
Did Glen give his opinion on the Biomass project?
DeleteYes, its Obama's fault.
DeleteIt's been Obama's fault since 2008... and that's no joke.
DeleteOf course it is. The biomass is Obama's fault, as was hurricane Irene, the school budget vote, and the Boston Marathon bombing.
DeleteJust like from 2000-2008 everything was George Bush's fault. See housing buble bursting, economy collapsing and 9/11.
My guess in 2016 it will be Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal's fault.
The 22 year old Saudi national Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi was on a government "terror watch" list due to the fact several men in his family are members of Al-Qaeda. Despite that, he was granted a student visa to the U.S. He had specifically applied for one to attend a school in Findlay, Ohio. But the school says he never showed up. He got an apartment in Boston instead, not even enrolling in a school there, after six months in the U.S. On April 15th, he was tackled to the the ground at the bomb site. Police initially denied all reports of having a Saudi in custody, but later relented.
ReplyDeleteFor a Beck-free update on this story, see:
Briefing on Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi Requested by Congressional Committee
interesting: http://gawker.com/accused-marathon-bomber-influenced-by-infowars-478641825
DeleteRe: link above "Accused Marathon Bomber Influenced by Infowars"
DeleteInfowars.com is a website frequently linked to by other alternative news sites and frequently turns up on Google searches of major news stories so its not surprising that most anyone who likes to search online for more details of certain news stories would soon become familiar with the site.
There once was a time when mainstream media had crack investigative reporters who would work for hours, days, and weeks to get to the bottom of a story. Now they are lazy. Just take whatever law authorities or the government release to them and go with that. If we're lucky, there's enough in question to warrant congressional hearings giving them some additional facts to report.
If the media were like this back in 1972, the Watergate scandal would have been limited to 3 days of brief news items on the break-in and then mostly forgotten about.
Today, many hunger for more of the truth so go online looking for it, sometimes getting into the craziest places. The latest news as reported on the Infowars site should always be taken with a grain of salt (or perhaps a whole shaker full) because they tend to jump to conclusions with anything new and exaggerate some.
The best way to look at Infowars news posts is ignore the body of the article entirely and just click on the reference phrases in blue. This takes you to an article on some other site which may be more factual. Or in some cases, to actual documentation of a fact that the mainstream media may not be reporting.
Sounds like the North Springfield Action Group may have their work cut out for them.
ReplyDeleteNimbys all want power for their apple computers to come from solar panels that are disguised as trees.They dont realize power has to come from somewhere.
ReplyDeleteNobody wants gas powered/coal powered/nuke powered generating plants.They think electric power just comes from the socket like magic.
This plant will go thru.
I am all for the biomass plant, but NIMBY'S and Macs? c'mon...your just mad you have an HP...
ReplyDeleteI used a Mac to write that post.
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