Dirty Air for Power We Don’t Need
– by Dick Stokes, September 19, 2013. Source: Gainesville-Sun
The “big lie” method involves making a claim so preposterous people assume it must be true.
Gainesville Regional Utilities made the preposterous claim that the air will be cleaner after the biomass incinerator (the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center) starts burning tons of wood daily, or more than 1 million tons annually. According to GRU, much of that wood is currently burned in the open with no pollution controls.
Just don’t ask GRU for the hard evidence. State records show only a fraction of the amount claimed is actually burned in the open annually. Good foresters know wood “waste” replenishes the soil for future trees, so they haven’t been burning it all away.
GREC will make our air filthier, every day, with no pollution controls over its CO2 emissions that will also exceed 1 million tons annually. All this pollution is for energy we don’t need.
Dick Stokes, Gainesville, Florida
