Tag: connecticut
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Connecticut: Don’t replace incineration with more burning!
Hartford, Connecticut is home to an aging and very polluting trash incinerator that the state would like to close. This state-run incinerator serves 70 Connecticut towns and is the county’s second largest air polluter. Shutting it down is a great idea, but… Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) only considered three proposals to…
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Plainfield, Connecticut Biomass Facility Changes Hands Again
– by Brian Dowling, March 25, 2015, Hartford Courant Leidos Inc. is selling its Plainfield wood-fired power plant to Greenleaf Power, a Sacramento company that is buying biomass plants across North America. Greenleaf Power announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy the 37.5-megawatt power plant in a deal it expects to close later this year. The…
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Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT
– by Bill Cummings, December 28, 2014, CT Post The discovery of PCBs and other contaminants at Greenwich High School two years ago is only part of a mosaic of cancer-causing toxics that have cropped up at various sites around one of the nation’s wealthiest, most exclusive communities. Pollutants have now been confirmed at three other locations in Greenwich,…
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Connecticut Buys Fake “Clean” Energy from New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator
[Other than ignoring all health and environmental impacts of biomass incineration, this article falsely claims that the Burgess BioPower incinerator in New Hampshire can operate at 90% efficiency, while in reality biomass power incinerators operate at 20-25% efficiency. -Ed.] – by Geoffrey Craig and Derek Sands, Platts Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority approved on Tuesday a New…
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