Stop Incineration
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BREDL Stop Incineration Campaign focuses on pyrolysis, thermal gasification and other types of incineration. |
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Jun. 06, 2022: The Chemours facility has caused massive pollution in the Cape Fear region and the pollution is ongoing. Thousands of people have been impacted. |
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BREDL Chapter People for Clean Mountains will sponsor the “Think B.I.G.” (Beyond Incinerating Garbage) Economic Forum, 5-9 p.m. this Thursday, June 27, 2013 in the Rogow Room at the Transylvania County Library, 212 South Gaston St., Brevard, NC.
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 Sept. 6, 2011: Candor NC- Tonight at a meeting organized by
Candor citizens concerned about a proposed biomass incinerator to
be operated by NC-CHP 1 LLC, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense
League released their white paper Second Opinion: The Medical
Profession Diagnoses Biomass Incineration. The white paper
compiles statements of concern from medical organizations and
professionals across the country who oppose biomass incineration.
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Impacts on the Environment and Public Health  June 2011: At high temperatures used in poultry waste gasification, toxic metals including arsenic, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, and ozone-forming nitrogen oxides would be released. Also, dioxins and furans would be created in the cooling process following the burning of chlorinated compounds and cellulose. These poisons are dangerous at extremely low levels and modern pollution control devices do a poor job of reducing these emissions into the atmosphere.
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Campaign Victory Declared by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and our chapter Citizens for a Healthy Environment  May 2011: Public education, community determination and direct action defeat bureaucratic inertia, financial influence and political pressure. BMWNC is closed! A May 11, 2011 letter to Mecklenburg County's air permit chief from incinerator manager Lewis Renfro states the company has “ceased operations at the incineration facility in Matthews, NC and has begun the process of decommissioning the site.” |
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NC Utilities Commission Order Issued Today
April
7, 2011: Today the North Carolina Utilities Commission issued an
order granting Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s
petition to intervene in ReVenture Park Investment’s request
for a declaratory ruling. The order is in response to the League’s
petition to intervene filed on Monday. |
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March
8, 2011: A Charlotte company plans to build and operate a waste
incinerator at the proposed ReVenture Park in the Catawba River
District of Mecklenburg and Gaston counties. According to
ReVenture project developers, the incinerator could burn wood
scraps, garbage and sewage sludge in a 20 megawatt
waste-to-energy plant. |