{"id":2304,"date":"2011-03-18T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/adage-and-gretnas-mayor.html"},"modified":"2011-03-18T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:04:44","slug":"adage-and-gretnas-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/adage-and-gretnas-mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Adage and Gretna&#8217;s mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/news\/headlines\/78886417.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/0005SH.new.01.jpg\"><\/a>\nThat\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/no-adage-biomass-plant-in-hamilton-county-florida.html\">\nprevious plant in Florida<\/a>\nwas the one in Gretna, Gadsden County, Florida, cancelled last year,\naccording to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/charlotte\/blog\/2010\/03\/duke_energy-areva_joint_biomass_plant_scratched.html\">\nJohn Downey in the Charlotte Business Journal, 16 October 2010.<\/a>\nIn the Gretna case, the mayor of Gretna posted\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?2xquz0tvm2t\">\na press release 16 March 2010 saying:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nMayor Anthony Baker of the City of Gretna announced today that in light\nof Adage, LLC\u2019s decision to suspend activity on its proposed Bioenergy\nfacility slated for construction in Gretna (as well as suspension\nof its application for an air permit through the Florida Department\nof Environmental Protection) that the City now considers this matter\nclosed and will take no further action on Adage\u2019s request to locate\nthis facility in Gretna. Inasmuch as the Bioenergy Plant could neither\nlegally operate nor be sited in Gretna without an air permit, the City\nconcluded that this was no longer a viable project and Adage\u2019s decision\nto suspend activity on its air permit indicated that further consideration\nof the project by the City was unwarranted. Since there were no issues\npending before the City of Gretna requiring action by its Commission\nrelative to the Plant, the Mayor deemed termination of the project as\nfinal disposition of this matter as far as the City is concerned.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis is despite promises of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/charlotte\/blog\/2010\/03\/duke_energy-areva_joint_biomass_plant_scratched.html\">\njobs, jobs, jobs:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nThe 55-megawatt plant was expected to cost $250 million and create 124\npermanent jobs in the city of 1,700 in Gadsden County, Fla.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAdage announced the Gretna plant\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/news\/headlines\/78886417.html\">\n9 Dec 2009<\/a>,\nas their second site in Florida, after the Hamilton County one.\nNow both sites have bit the dust.\n<p>\nThe Gretna one actually only lasted less than four months from\nannouncement in December 2009 to cancellation in March 2010.\nApparently local people\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gretnaflorida.biomess.us\/2010\/01\/05\/gadsden-county-florida-citizen-group-forms-in-opposition-to-gretna-biomass-incinerator\/\">\nthought their health was more important.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That previous plant in Florida was the one in Gretna, Gadsden County, Florida, cancelled last year, according to John Downey in the Charlotte Business Journal, 16 October 2010. 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