« Courts - "Is Calif. Ban on Violent Video Games Legal?" | Main | Ind. Courts - Howard Superior Court 2 Judge Stephen Jessup retiring »

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Environment - "Environmental groups appeal to stop Purdue coal expansion"

Updating an ILB entry from May 11 headed "Purdue's request to expand the Wade Power Plant assailed," Eric Weddle of the Lafayette Journal Courier reported Wednesday:

Two environmental groups have filed an appeal with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over Purdue University's air permit.

The Sierra Club and the Hoosier Environmental Council are attempting to revoke or modify a decision made by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management that will allow the university to operate the Wade Power Plant now and after its planned expansion of coal powered boilers.

The Journal Courier provides a link to the 36-page petition objecting to the Title 5 operating permit renewal, filed on Oct. 25th. EPA. It concludes:
For the above reasons, the Permit fails to comply with the Clean Air Act and all applicable requirements, and the Administrator must object. Petitioners have demonstrated that the permit does not include the required compliance monitoring for various sources of PM, PM10, and PM2.5 from multiple sources and for H2SO4 and HCl emissions from Boiler 6. Additionally, Petitioners have demonstrated that IDEM’s netting analysis, which allowed the addition of Boilers 6 and 7 and associated equipment to be a PSD minor modification, was faulty because it did not consider modifications that occurred to Boiler 1 as part of a major life extension project approximately 10 years ago. Purdue failed to include information of this project and related violations of BACT emission limits in its application for the Title V renewal permit, and the Permit accordingly fails to ensure compliance with all applicable limits.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 28, 2010 03:21 PM
Posted to Environment