Mason County Defeats Huge Incinerator
Local citizens have defeated a giant transnational corporation planning a 65MW incinerator for Mason County, Washington. Adage announced on March 14, 2011 it was abandoning plans to build the highly polluting plant outside Shelton. The incinerator would have emitted 600,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide pollution and more than 100 tons per year of particulate matter. Citizens mounted a petition drive against the plant and hired attorney Dave Bricklin of Seattle to lead a legal challenge.
This is a sensational victory for us! The Adage incinerator, like all biomass incinerators, would have stoked climate change, rained toxic pollution on the region, and decimated our forests.
BUT, four other large biomass incinerators are planned for the Olympic Peninsula plus the monster 50MW, $80M natural gas incinerator planned for downtown Seattle by Seattle Steam. The Seattle Steam incinerator would emit more than 200,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide and more than 160 tons per year of highly dangerous particulate matter (PM) pollution. The American Lung Association states PM can kill humans on the same day as exposure.
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No Biomass Burn is a grassroots coalition whose mission is to expose and confront the myth of sustainable biomass energy. Biomass is little more than a status quo false solution, scientifically recognized to significantly exacerbate the climate crisis, postpone real solutions, and lend unprecedented momentum to wanton environmental devastation and the furtherance of global inequity.