Tag Archives: Lisa Jackson

No Adage biomass plant in Hamilton County, Florida

According to Power-Gen Worldwide,

Plans for biomass power plant ends
:

The company still has a permit to build a 55 MW plant in Florida but
there are no plans to start construction and the company is expected to
let the permit lapse in June. Adage ended plans in 2010 to build another
plant in Florida.

Why is Adage giving up on Hamilton County, Florida?

Christopher Dunagan writes in Kitsap Sun
:



Meanwhile, a similar project by Adage in Northern Florida also will not
be pursued at this time, according to DePonty. That project has been
fully permitted and was about to move ahead if only the electricity
market had provided the financial incentive, he said.

Here’s the
Florida air permit.

Despite having that air permit and promising

jobs, jobs, jobs

Adage is apparently not going to build in Hamilton, County, Florida.

The source of the many stories on this appears to be

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Particulate matter is a killer. –Lisa Jackson, EPA, 17 March 2011

Listening to

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about EPA’s proposed new mercury rules,

for me, the live feed on facebook did not work,
but the one on
whitehouse.gov
did.
A few quotes:

Particulate matter is a killer.
We know it results in hundreds of thousands of deaths.


That matches some local concerns in Lowndes County.

How much of a killer?

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This morning: Talk to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about the Clean Air Act



Worried about mercury or other toxic chemicals?
Ask EPA what they’re going to do about it.

Join Administrator Jackson for a special White House live chat on the
Mercury and Air Toxics Standards tomorrow, Thursday, March 17 at 10:55
a.m. EDT. Administrator Jackson will be joined by young people who
are passionate about this issue and the discussion will be moderated by
Kalpen Modi of the Office of Public Engagement.

Submit your questions for Administrator Jackson now in a

comment on Facebook
. And be sure to watch live tomorrow morning at

whitehouse.gov/live

or join the conversation on

Facebook.

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