After running a Google search for Baard Energy and Wellsville, I can see just as many negatives as there are positives.
The fluff:
Obviously Baard & Co.tells you only the fluff:
http://www.baardenergy.com/projects.htmThe Baard picture map shows a blue line from the power lines down to Rt.7 as a "future industrial park" (we all know that this will be a disgustingly ugly materials dumping/ stockpiling ground). The main plant is down by the river. This will create construction jobs (temporary) and some plant maintenance and operator jobs (as long as the price of Middle East and South American oil stays high ($38 a barrel is high?).
The bad:
This production plant is probably like any other plant that processes solvents of any type. Air emissions during daylight will be minimal, but during the night the entire valley will smell like solvents and fuel. Most processing plants of fuels and solvents are unfortunately situated in river valleys for easy access to the water, but that same valley also traps heavy toxic fumes for you and your children to breathe into your fragile lungs. Any new processing plants should be situated away from people and NOT in a river valley.
The reality:
This production plant is supposedly for producing diesel type fuel for "the military". This is codespeak for "anything goes" and gets a pass on negative environmental impact. It is easy to ignore the extra pollution of the river and the air as well as the monetary cost when the label "national security" is affixed to a project. I can even hear Congress and the president being told that we cannot invade Iran because these plants are not up and running! What a crock of B.S. our Congress falls for over and over when "national security" is cited.
The suggestions:
Tell the good people of Wellsville the truth about this process about to destroy their relatively clean way of life. Tell the good people upwind (like me) and downriver of this disgusting proposal that is being decided by people who only see dollar signs and have never read a new cancer report in their life. Tell the so-called environmental lobby about double the increase of CO2 gases when this "new" fuel is burned by cars and trucks(you will never hear from these bozos as long as COngress is a Democrat majority and especially if we have a Democrat president.
The joke:
This plant will be built and will become an albatross around the necks of anyone who touches it. Just like TVA (Tennesse Valley Authority) nuclear power plant, the costs will hemorage tax dollars and the final bill will be presented to the consumers when the place is shut down. Extra taxes will be added to your gasoline bill as soon as this plant is started and like any other tax, they will never ever be removed.
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