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Friday, July 06, 2007

Environment - Even more on: Communities seek to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers

Adding to the ILB's now very long list of stories about the regulation of wood-fired boilers is this brief report from the Michigan City News-Dispatch:

LaPORTE - A moratorium was placed on installation of new outdoor wood-fired boilers by LaPorte county commissioners until the final reading of a county ordinance at an Aug. 7 meeting.

At Tuesday's commission meeting, the ordinance was adopted by title on first reading.

Jim Donnelly, a key proponent of OWB regulation, thanked the commissioners for the ordinance, calling it "a good start."

Donnelly said he and Conni Clay of the Save the Dunes Council would like to share the "reams of information" they have gathered on the subject.

An ILB entry dated March 2, 2007 began:
The ILB has had a slew of entries on the topic of regulating outdoor wood-fired boilers/furnaces. First there was outrage from a southern Indiana legislator when the Dept. of Environmental Management (IDEM) published a First Notice asking for public comments on the possibility of regulating the outdoor furnaces/boilers. IDEM was accused of "hiding" the notice in the Indiana Register. (Note that this was back when the serial, paginated, monthly Indiana Register was still availble online.) IDEM backtracked and has done nothing since.

In the face of public demand, local communities all over the state have since made efforts to regulate the outdoor furances/boilers on their own. You may follow much of the history in this list [see above] of ILB entries.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 6, 2007 08:50 AM
Posted to Environment