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Proposed Biomass-fired Power Plant Valdosta, GA |
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WACE put this on a billboard on a busy street in Valdosta, Georgia to publicize a biomass power plant which would have burned trees and sewage sludge. |
A permit was issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division effective July 19, 2010. The permit allows the construction of a 45 megawatt plant powered by wood and sewage sludge. |
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Jan. 13, 2011: The air pollution permit issued by the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division for the Wiregrass Biomass-Fired
Power Plant grants the company many ways to emit excess levels of
pollution. A close examination of the permit, the permit
application and other documents indicate that biomass power
plants are not clean sources of power and that the first priority
of their owner-operators is neither public health nor
environmental quality. |