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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Environment - "Biomass invades, threatens Southern Indiana"
The ILB has had many entries on the proposed biomass projects in Scottsburg and Crawford County.
A long article in The Bloomington Alternative, dated Nov. 27, 2010, reported by Linda Greene, begins:
The biomass-combustion industry has southern Indiana under seige. The corporations are attempting to site biomass electricity-generating plants in Crawford, Scott, Dubois and Gibson/Pike counties. Those companies apparently don’t expect opposition from the residents of small towns in rural southern Indiana.The industry touts biomass burning as a “green” technology; it’s anything but. Biomass plants are more polluting per unit of energy generated than coal-burning plants, which are the No. 1 cause of global warming. A 32-megawatt biomass plant uses 500,000–700,000 gallons of fresh water every day and regurgitates some 350,000 gallons of pollution-tainted waste water into the local river or lake.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 27, 2010 06:49 PM
Posted to Environment