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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

UD/TDC Update: City Of Newark's Next Mayor Will Be The Swing Vote On Actions Concerning The Power Plant

Posted on 23:12 by Unknown

It is REALLY going to be important to get to know the seven candidates' positions on issues at the November 14th debate. The new mayor of my town will be the swing vote on decisions about the power plant. And here's why......
What hasn't been reported about Monday night's Council meeting was that Council took a vote coming out of Executive Session. They took the audience by surprise going right into a motion immediately after we all said the pledge to the flag. The motion was (paraphrasing here) to continue to moniter the Data Centers "situation". The vote was a 3 to 3 tie so it failed to carry.

What I'll call Newark's Morning Rotary Club contingent (two made early endorsements for Rotary gal, Polly Sierer): Jerry Clifton, District 1, Luke Chapman, District 5 and Stu Markham, District 6 all voted in favor of the motion. The motion didn't carry because Mark Morehead, District 1, Marge Hadden, District 4 and Doug Tuttle, District 3 voted against it. 

And I do presume that these representatives of the neighborhoods likely impacted the most by this power plant proposal (Districts 1, 3 and 4) were, in fact, voting for a more active approach to the "situation" than just monitoring it. 

Time will tell. 

What the vote also tells me is that the new mayor will be the swing vote in this body. If Morehead should win the mayoral vote then we'll be waiting another several months before another special election changes the mix.

By the way, the candidates should have all filed their thirty day campaign finance reports: Amy Roe, Check; Rebecca Powers, Nothing filed, Don DelCollo, Nothing Filed;  Robyn Harland, Nothing filed; Matthew Vento, Nothing filed, Polly Sierer, Nothing filed. What the heck??? Sierer has had signs up everywhere for weeks and Harland's had a few. DelCollo told me he is waiting to put his up after mischief night. If you have signs then you have spent money and you should have filed a campaign report as the law demands. 

Update: A friend writes ~
The 30 day reports for Sierer and Powers are both up. I went to the page for candidate committee search and entered the last name and 2013 for the year and they popped up. Polly has taken $600 from a union PAC and has few donors but high amounts. Powers has many donors but small amounts. Interestingly, she has spent way more than Polly, who seems to be sitting on her cash. I leave it to you to know anything about who might be giving to them. 
Incredibly, the Delaware Department of Elections' revamped website has made the search for candidates etc. much, much harder
- you have to know the exact name of a Candidate, a PAC, a Political Committee or a Contributor to look for them in the system. 

The old system had easy access to alphabetical listings. Now, if you look hard enough, you will find a list of PACs on a PDF because a few of us complained in the last election cycle. But there is no way to easily search PACs, or anything else, through the system. http://elections.delaware.gov/information/campaignfinance/pdfs/PAC%20List.pdf

Update II: Ok, I typed in Sierer and 2013 and selected special election 30 day report and nothing came up. I removed the selections for special election and 30 day report and found the campaign finance filing. I will try that search technique and see what else I find. Department of Elections has some 'splainin' to do!

Update III: A very nice gentleman at the Dover office explained that the state doesn't have a category for our November 26, 2013 special election. The special election type on the state website is reserved for state-level elections only. Municipal and school board special elections don't fit into that category according to the rule. I asked that the Department make some changes so that it's clear to everyone how to get filing information for all elections.

Update IV: Polly Sierer doesn't seem to have properly disclosed expenditures for her signs. She shows a mere hundred or so spent in that advertisement category when the actual figure for purchasing signs has to be closer to $5 - $6 hundred as shown on the Roe and Powers reports. And I am going out on a limb here to predict that Sierer is pro-power plant based on her union PAC contribution.

Update V: I am following up on this information a friend shared yesterday ~
Morehead, Harland and Vento all filed with the DOE that they will be spending under $2000 and are not required to file those reports.


 (Doug Rainey image)

Meanwhile, (DE Business Daily) Doug Rainey reports his typical stuff ~ Newark Council gets another earful on Data Centers project
Newark Council gets another earful on Data Centers project - See more at: http://delawarebusinessdaily.com/2013/10/26424/#sthash.GOjBi70J.dpuf


And (News Journal) Melissa Nann Burke gets a story in ~ Data Center Again Dogs Newark's Council

With some comments ~
















  • Carol Robbins October 29, 2013 Reply
    I was at that meeting, and every meeting since this all came out. Your reporter is quite biased as are all the leftists newsies in this state that cater to Jack Markell. Markell has shown the utmost disrespect to the people of Newark who oppose having their air polluted by this power plant. The UDE’s own professors of mechanical engineering are showing up at these meetings and expressing their concerns. It is the city of Newark and their City Manager who are responsible for this mess. If the people had been informaed in 2011, when this first came up and the Data Centers had heeded the recommendation of DNREC in very large letters that transparency with the community is a must for this type of project, we recommended that you inform the community as soon as possible. And yet, our governor, who was elected by the people, not the out of state owners of the Data Centers, LLC says “It goes like this, you don’t have to run everything by the people” – what a asinine statement to the people who pay your salary!
  • - See more at: http://delawarebusinessdaily.com/2013/10/26424/#comment-117778Data Center again dogs Newark’s council

    NEWARK —
    Residents took turns at the podium during Monday’s City Council meeting, debating the local economic impact of the proposed data cen­ter and 248-megawatt power-generating facility at the old Chrysler site.

    Homeowners such as Katie Gifford of the De­von Binns community complained about calls and visits to their homes last week from data-cen­ter advocates and out-of­state union members tout­ing “inflated” numbers on
    jobs the project would cre­ate and other “misinfor­mation,” she said.

    “Given that interests outside of the city – includ­ing state- level politicians – are so concerned with painting residents as ill-in­formed and anti-jobs, I give you this: The unem­ployment rate in the city of Newark is a compara­tively healthy 6.7 percent – slightly lower than Dela­ware’s overall rate; sig­nificantly lower than Do­ver’s 9 percent; or Wil­mington and Philadelphia, both over 10 percent,” Gif­ford said.

    “That suggests we have
    been more friend than foe to Delaware’s jobs num­bers.”

    The Data Centers LLC wants to construct a 900,000-square-foot com­plex called the Wolf Tech­nology Center on 43 acres of the property, now the Science, Technology & Ad­vanced Learning (STAR) Campus of the University
    of Delaware. The company has not yet obtained environmen­tal permits or finalized fi­nancing for the $1-billion project. Union leaders and others say Delaware can’t afford to say no to the cen­ter’s 290 full-time and 50 part-time jobs. “Everyone calls this a gigantic power plant. I submit that you go to Ed­gemoor or to Delta, Pa., and see what a gigantic power plant is,” said Har­ry Gravell of Lewes, presi­dent of the Delaware Building and Construction Trades Council. “This is really small. If the build­ing trades build it, it would probably be the smallest one we’ve ever built.”

    Resident Ken Grant, who created an online pet­ition supporting TDC, said people should understand its need for self-genera­tion of power, especially a
    year after Superstorm Sandy knocked out por­tions of the grid for weeks. “The power generation part is something that makes sense,” Grant said.

    The city dismissed con­cerns about whether its 15- year electric contract with UD would permit the school to buy electricity from TDC, rather than from Newark.

    In a statement, staff said, even if UD exercised the clause, it would “not have any significant or material financial conse­quences to the city.”

    TDC left a handout at the meeting with respons­es
    to questions, such as the routes of natural-gas lines feeding the Chrysler site. The company says it will release the proposed routes in February or March after it concludes negotiations with Eastern Shore on the pipeline de­sign and engineering.

    TDC also said it’s in dis­cussions with Bloom Ener­gy on how its “Bloom Box” technology might be in­corporated into the data
    center’s final design.W
    • Two months after telling the Newark Planning Commission (Sept. 2011) that the STAR campus zoning accessory power generation would amount to one MW, UD officials were meeting with DNREC staff for review of a full-fledged power plant (190MW) at the site. Those plans were NEVER conveyed to the City Council when the zoning was approved in March 2012. The size of the plant has grown to 280MW. The City has a LOT to do to make this right to the residents whose home values will plummet and quality of life disappear should this power plant move forward.

    • The issue is not the Data Center. The problem is the Power Plant. And if the plan doesn't work for TDC without the Power Plant, then take they can take it and their Investors somewhere else.

    • (a resident of Hockessin) Many people find it easy to be anti-anything new or different to what they are culture accustomed, There is substantial distance between the proposed natural gas fired electric generation site and residential structures and the spent natural gas is relatively environmental friendly. The doom and gloom anti position of this worthy investment in collective self is a familiar farce Attempt to exploit fear through ignorance. The electric generation, jobs and collective quality of life up-grade should not be hindered by ignorance.

      • Maybe YOUR house is not within any distance but I dare you to go to Devon or the Binns and say that! How dare anyone who is not facing this accuse people of doom and gloom when it is OUR property values that are already dropping with local realtors showing up at meetings stating that people will not look at homes near the affected area. And the darn thing is not even in the final stage!
    The candidates are: Donald DelCollo Jr., Robyn Harland, current City Councilman Mark Morehead, Rebecca Powers, Amy Roe, Polly Sierer and Matthew Vento. - See more at: http://www.wdde.org/52135-newark-mayor-special-election#sthash.BJvEw32l.dpuf Senator Venables writes ~ Delaware Voice: Find a path forward, then work together

    And Senator Venables writes ~ Delaware Voice: Find a path forward, then work together
    Delawareans at every level and point of view must start a discussion about what we need to do to create the kind of economic future we all want, which can only be achieved through extensive cooperation. We need to recognize promising opportunities, such as the data center at UD’s STAR campus, when they come our way, rather than decrying their lack of perfection. The best way to help those who have been sidelined by economic challenges is to be open to new ideas and allow those ideas to be realized into economic success.
    With a comment rescue ~
    Unfortunately for Senator Venables, his ignorance of data centers and supporting infrastructure needs underscores the reasoning for a more thoughtful analysis of the project itself. Senator Venables is making the often made mistake of assuming that the community wants nothing built on the STAR campus as the sole reason the project is being fought against by the community. Not so...the community loves the data center concept that mirrors JP Morgan Chase's Bear data center facility. The truth is Gene Kern's vision is a utility first and foremost, a data center second. It isn't meant to start a new industry in Delaware. It isn't designed to be the first of many businesses to come to Delaware to launch multiple data center projects. It isn't the Financial Services Act Venables smartly refers to from the late 70's. Therein lies the Senator's key problem - this Governor and Administration has failed to lead to bring in a new kind of industry here to Delaware similar to the financial services act that brought multiple banks out of Manhattan to Delaware or the development of a pharmaceuticals corridor that then Governor Carper was trying to create with Dupont Pharma and AZN and co. What Venables doesn't understand is that the power plant is the profit motive here, not so much the data center. Dr. Kempton already destroyed the captive power argument made by Gene Kern - clearly demonstrating that with multiple lines of power from the grid, the data center would achieve comparable up time as a captive power source. The reason the investors at Lexden Capital are considering an investment in this facility is completely tied to the utility aspect of the power generation, not the unique space saving/100% up time process argued by Kern. Without the revenues generated from the power plant the project becomes just another data center and Kern can't sell it. Kern may have a vision to execute these in a cookie cutter approach, getting a royalty payment to his personal entity for the "patented" process he and his team are putting together....Kern has no real cash on his own to execute this vision, but is instead relying on project capital (not investment capital into his firm, but a traditional utility project capital approach) to prove his concept. Unfortunately for Kern, the large data aggregators like Facebook, Ebay, Apple, Google, etc have all done data centers built on a framework of renewable power with backup generation from traditional fossil power. The too big to fail banks have already built data centers without the utility requirements Kern envisions. Kern tries to make an argument that he is using brownfields and is considering the environment for these projects. The problem, Gene, is that you want to introduce industrial scale power plants into areas tied to communities that don't desire them. If you really want transparency for the project Gene, then provide the State and the community with the sales pitch you gave Lexden Capital absent the deal numbers to protect confidentiality. Let the State and community see just how you pitched it. My guess was that the economic weight of your argument fell on the power purchase agreement moreso than your modular cloud pricing for data pods.
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    Save The Valley Halloween Happy Hour 5PM Tonight At The Gables In Chadds Ford, PA

    Posted on 08:07 by Unknown

    Don't forget! 

    Happy Hour at The Gables TODAY!

    Wednesday, October 30th 5-9pm
    Bring your friends, family, and coworkers!
    Just a quick note to let you know that Save The Valley is holding a happy hour Halloween fundraiser on Wednesday, October 30th at The Gables on Route 1 in Chadds Ford from 5pm to 9pm. There is no price for admission but, of course, we won't refuse donations!
    Appetizers will be provided by The Gables, and Save The Valley will be getting a percentage of the cash bar so come thirsty! We'll also have various raffles, silent auctions, and 50/50s.
    100% of the proceeds that Save The Valley receives from this fundraiser will be used for our continuing communications effort to save Beaver Valley from destruction. 
    Come on out for a great cause and enjoy yourself in the process.  Feel free to forward this email to your friends who might not be on the list. Hope to see you this Wednesday!
    Click here for directions
    Thank you for your continued support!
    The Save The Valley Team.
     Our mailing address is:
    Save The Valley
    Delaware Ave, Wilmington, DE
    Wilmington, DE 19806


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    Chesapeake Bay Watershed Protection Groups' Efforts A Success

    Posted on 05:22 by Unknown
    Richard Klein sent this along ~ 
     
    Survey Shows Watershed Groups Halt 
    Substantial Local and Bay Pollution Sources
    Following is a summary of the latest article posted on the CEDS news service at: cedsnews.com

    An amazing 82% of watershed groups have engaged in at least one activity to halt pollution affecting their waterway and the Bay.  More than half the time they succeeded in reducing pollution inputs.

    These are two of the principle findings from a survey conducted by Community and Environmental Defense Services (CEDS) to determine the extent to which nonprofit watershed advocacy groups are seeking to identify and correct the leading causes of pollution within the Chesapeake Bay basin.  We also wanted to know of factors that impede the efforts of these groups.

    While a few groups are accomplishing a lot, many others are not.  One reason is a lack of training materials and opportunities.  A number of free guidance documents are available at the CEDS Watershed Audit webpage.  Training will be offered on Tuesday, November 19th, in the Annapolis area.  For further detail visit Curbing Watershed Pollution Workshop.

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    Richard Klein
    Community and Environmental Defense Services
    811 Crystal Palace Court
    Owings Mills, MD  21117
    410-654-3021
    ceds.org
    cedsnews.com

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    American Revolutionary Roundtable Update: Wade Catts' Talk On The Battle Of Cooches Bridge Set For 7:30PM Saturday!

    Posted on 05:15 by Unknown


    Hale Byrnes House  606 Stanton-Christiana Road, Newark, DE 19713
    www.halebyrnes.org



    Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013   7:30PM - 9:30PM

    American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware.

    The Public is Cordially Invited to attend

    Wade Catts' talk:

    "An Opportunity of Annoying Them Greatly"
    The Battle of Cooch's Bridge.

    Well-behaved children always welcomed.

    $5 at the door includes coffee & dessert.




    Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013   11:00AM - 5:00PM

    Holiday Open House



    Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013   7:30PM - 9:30PM

    American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware.

    The Public is Cordially Invited to attend

    Bob Selig's talk:

    "Delaware and The Yorktown Campaign of 1781."

    Well-behaved children always welcomed.

    $5 at the door includes coffee & dessert.  



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    Tuesday, 29 October 2013

    Newark Comprehensive Plan Update Meeting Set for 7PM Tonight At City Hall

    Posted on 14:15 by Unknown
    I am heading out tonight to Newark's Planning Commission Meeting on Comprehensive Development Plan (2).  The agenda shows that very little information is yet available about the work done to date on this update. The process was kicked off in the summer of 2012. I wonder why, in late October of 2013, the public can view only the first two chapters of the plan.
     
    A neighbor sent this along today ~
    There are more planning meetings coming up for the Comprehensive Plan review and update. I went to the last one 2 weeks ago, and very few members of the public were there. Apparently there was an omission in the online notice for that meeting, so it was not posted.

    Here is the link for the next meetings, including tonight at 7pm. http://www.cityofnewarkde.us/index.aspx?nid=819
    And last night,Council was not happy to see that tonight's meeting was not scheduled for the Chamber but for a very small room in the planning department.

    This is what the Department has posted online:
    Table of Contents
    • Preface: Why We Plan
    • Chapter One: Introduction
      • Map: City of Newark Aerial
      • Map: Planning Sections Overview
    • Chapter Two: Community Profile
    • Chapter Three: Vision and Aspirations (Not submitted)
    • Chapter Four: Public Utilities and Infrastructure
    • Chapter Five: Housing & Community Development
    • Chapter Six: Transportation
      • Map: Transportation Network
    • Chapter Seven: Environmental Quality& Natural Environment
      • Map: Environmental Features
    • Chapter Eight: Parks, Recreation & Open Space
    • Chapter Nine: Economic Development
      • Map: State Investment Strategies for Policies and Spending
    • Chapter Ten: Land Development
    • Chapter Eleven: Growth & Annexation
    • Chapter Twelve: Coordination & Implementation


    UPCOMING EVENTS
    Event
    Description
    Date
    Status
    Planning Commission Meeting on Comprehensive Development Plan (2)  The meeting is to review draft chapters and to provide an opportunity for individuals and organizations to share thoughts and ideas about some of the issues and opportunities facing Newark for the update of the City's Comprehensive Development Plan.  Tuesday,
     October 29, 2013
    7 pm, 
     
     Planning Commission Public Hearing
    (Regularly Scheduled
    )

    Planning and Development Staff will give an update Progress Report to the update of the Comprehensive Development Plan   Tuesday,
    November 5, 2013
    7 pm
     
    Planning Commission Meeting on Comprehensive Development Plan (3)
     The meeting is to review draft chapters and to provide an opportunity for individuals and organizations to share thoughts and ideas about some of the issues and opportunities facing Newark for the update of the City's Comprehensive Development Plan. Tuesday,
     November 19, 2013
    7 pm 

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    Pacem In Terris Update: Peacemakers Among Us Award Winners Announced

    Posted on 08:34 by Unknown
    Medard Gabel sent this along ~

    This Week

    Peacemakers Among Us Award 
    Three wonderful people received the Pacem in Terris 2013 Peacemakers Among Us Award: Kristin Froehlich, Eunice LaFate and Rev. Bruce Gillette.
    Kristin is President of the Board of the Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty; Eunice is a local artist whose work reflects her involvement in peace and non-violence issues in the community; Bruce is active the Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence and ending the death penalty in Delaware. All three have done much more than the mere highlights above. Read more about these stellar peace and justice activists at Pacem's website.


    Upcoming Events
    • October 28, Monday, 7:00 pm. Solidarity interfaith evening. Islamic Society of Delaware, Multipurpose Hall, 28 Salem Church Rd, Newark DE. 19713. (The Islamic Society of Delaware was recently attacked in a fear-filled and ignorant assault that destroyed its signs in front of its building.) 
    • October 30, Wed. 7:30 pm Conference: University of Delaware Center for Political Communication, National Agenda: Delaware and the Nation.Speakers report on how Delaware fits into the national portrait of politics and human development.
    • November 10, Sunday 2:00 pm. Public forum: African American judges address Race and the Criminal Justice System in Delaware. The Hon. Joshua Martin, former Superior Court Judge and the first African American President of the DE State Bar Association, will serve as moderator, which will feature all the African American judges currently sitting on the courts of Delaware. First Unitarian Church, 730 Halstead Drive, just off Concord Pike. Free and open to the public.
    • November 12, Tuesday, 4:30 to 9 pm. Aviva and Noam Chomsky:Whose Planet? Whose Economic Development? Jobs vs. Environment in the US and Latin America. Cinema room, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College. (Aviva Chomsky will lecture at 4:30 pm and Noam Chomsky will lecture at 7 pm.)
    • Novemnber 13, 9 am - noon.Youth Gun Violence Prevention Workshop. Community Services Building, 100 W. 10th St. Suite 105, Wilmington. Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in gun violence prevention resources and materials. Seating limited.
    For reservations contact: Davi Mozie
    • November 14, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Restorative Justice Workshop--A One-Day Workshop Exploring Justice That Heals. John Dickenson Plantation 21 The Green, Dover, DE 19901 Off Route 1. Cost: $40. Further info: charitocw@aol.com


    Opportunity
    The Alternatives to Violence Project is looking for volunteers for their program at Baylor Women's Prison.  This program is arguably the most effective program at transforming the lives of these women.  It is fun and engaging and occurs over one weekend, a Friday evening, Saturday day and Sunday afternoon into evening.  The outside volunteer facilitators find it richly rewarding, personally helpful and gives them exercises they can use in other settings, e.g., church, youth group, support groups, etc.  It is connected to other AVP programs throughout the U.S. and around the world.  The coordinator for the Women's prison is moving out of the area and AVP needs someone to step-up to make sure the program continues.  The women inmates are experienced facilitators, so the outside person does not need to be a trained facilitator.  If you or someone you know is interested, please contact Deborah Bromiley. There is also a need at the men's prisons for new volunteers.  This program has received the Governors Volunteer Program Award and the Presidents 1000 Points of Light Award, been featured on NPR, in the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly.  It is a great program and great people to work with.

    Planetary Update
    Sealing leaky homes could save Americans $33 billion a year.  
    Reports Find High Civilian Casualties, 
    Contradict Obama Administration’s Claims About Drone Program How Corrupt Is Your Government?

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    Senator Leahy's 'USA FREEDOM Act' Leads The Push To Stop NSA's Mass Surveillance

    Posted on 08:14 by Unknown
    Demand Progress Lauds Introduction of USA FREEDOM Act
    Leading member of StopWatchingUs Coalition supports effort to curtail NSA, urges opposition to competing Feinstein bill.
     Demand Progress, a leading member of the StopWatchingUs coalition, co-organizer of last weekend's Rally Against Mass Surveillance, and major grassroots force behind the nearly-successful Amash amendment to defund mass spying, praised today's impending introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act.    
    Internet users may visit www.StopTheNSA.org to urge Congress to end mass spying.   
    According to Demand Progress executive director David Segal, "When the Snowden leaks first emerged in June -- and after years of disregard for our civil liberties by our own government -- it was unclear whether our efforts to rein in the NSA would even find more than a handful of strong allies in Congress.  After the Amash amendment's razor-thin loss, and the introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act with dozens of cosponsors, it is increasingly clear that many in the halls of power are listening to the tens of millions across this country who know that the NSA must be restrained."  
    The USA FREEDOM Act, to be introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) would end bulk collection of American's "meta-data", increase Americans' protections from warrantless wiretapping, increases transparency, and creates and adversarial process in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.  
    Meanwhile, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI) are poised to introduce as yet unnamed legislation that would entrench surveillance powers.    
    "Feinstein and Rogers are the surveillance apparatus's biggest acolytes in Congress -- and they're doing right by their paymasters, by broadly defending the NSA even after rampant abuse and the concomitant public outcry for reform."  
    Visit www.StopTheNSA.org to urge Congress to end mass spying. 

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    Big Push Against Renewable Oil Incinerator Scheme - Join The Effort Against The Already Illegal Burning Of Waste In Delaware!

    Posted on 02:22 by Unknown
    This NO INCINERATOR list is going viral! Contact John Flaherty if you want to add your name or organization.
    John Austin, long time environmentalist, is the originator of this effort.


    Reasons To Not Approve Seaford and Millsboro Incinerators

    1) In Renewable Oil International DE, LLC’s application, they indicate that the feed stocks used at both the Seaford and Millsboro facilities would include “clean, non-hazardous organic materials such as poultry litter.”  This description is completely inaccurate as poultry litter is neither clean nor non-hazardous.    Poultry litter contains fecal material, bacteria, pesticides, vaccines, as well as heavy metals, antibiotics and coccidiostats that were in the poultry feed.    

    2) Studies have shown that the use of biochar can improve water quality.  The positive qualities are dependent on the properties of the biochar.  In this case, biochar produced at these two proposed facilities cannot improve water quality as the use of poultry litter creates a biochar that is heavily laden with concentrated hazardous materials.

    3)  If there are toxic heavy metals going in one end, they must come out in the products that the facility produces.  The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that "Organic arsenic compounds (namely Roxarsone) are extensively added to the feed of animals (particularly poultry and swine) in the United States to improve growth rates by controlling parasitic diseases."[2]   Most of it is excreted in the manure.  Arsenic is more toxic than lead.  The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted studies of the land and water impacts of arsenic-containing poultry litter being land applied in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and have found trace elements of arsenic in Maryland's Pocomoke River.[3,4,5,6,7]  I am aware of no quantification of the actual tonnage of poultry litter to be processed at these two facilities annually.  Concentrations of 15 to 35 ppm of arsenic have been found to be in poultry litter. [2,3,8]  Without knowing the actual tonnage of poultry litter flowing through these two facilities annually, the tonnage of arsenic stored at or leaving these facilities cannot be quantified and therefore the safety of the materials produced at these two facilities cannot be accurately assessed. 

    4) The UN Environment Program lists dioxins as Persistant Organic Pollutants.  Dioxins in the environment are mostly the result of past and current industrial processes.  Dioxin production requires hydrocarbons and chlorine. Poultry litter is full of hydrocarbons, both in the manure and the bedding. There should be no shortage of chlorine in the poultry litter, either.  One of the sources of chlorine is from the various drugs and pesticides used in the poultry industry.[9] There are at least eight drugs, most of them coccidiostats that are used in the poultry industry and are chlorinated.  These chlorine-containing materials are found in the poultry litter.  Dioxins are highly toxic in very small amounts.  The sheer tonnage of poultry litter moving through these two facilities provides an ample supply of chlorine for dioxin production.  

    5) The formation of dioxins is enhanced in the presence of metals, especially copper, iron and zinc.  Poultry are treated with copper sulfate to avoid a common disease called "aspergillosis." Evidence from chicken litter in Arkansas shows nearly twice as much copper as arsenic in poultry manure[8].  Copper levels in poultry litter are so high that there are documented cases of cows dying from being fed poultry litter. Iron and zinc are also used as feed additives in poultry production.  While copper is the most effective catalyst, iron and zinc are also quite effective at boosting dioxin production.

    6) Biochar produced from poultry litter binds certain toxic chemicals such as copper, cadmium and zinc [1].  Not only will Renewable Oil International DE, LLC be sequestering carbon for centuries in the biochar, but also heavy metals like arsenic will be sequestered in the soils where the biochar is applied, effectively poisoning the soils where the poultry litter biochar is applied. 

    7) Regarding ROI’s application section 4.7, this facility should not be permitted to be built at the desired site in Seaford nor Millsboro.  Given what we know about the chemicals, heavy metals and various toxins flowing through this facility, it is unsafe for such a facility to be built this close to residences and a church. 

    8) Further, the application states “The poultry litter will be obtained from Ray Ellis, a poultry grower and poultry litter broker … Ellis has contracts to remove and broker the poultry litter from 600 to 700 houses.” This much litter will not be coming from adjacent farms.  The potential for the production of a significant amount of highly concentrated hazardous material at this facility is high.

    9) Where and how will the biochar (which is laden with concentrated hazardous materials) be stored safely once produced at this facility?

    10) Point 4.4 states “there is no disposal of materials used in the discovery, development and manufacture of veterinary products, medicines and vaccines.”  This is simply not true as the poultry litter by nature contains manure from poultry that were given antibiotics, coccidiostats and vaccines.  A poultry litter analysis will show that these components are to be found in the poultry litter which will then be processed at the facility in Seaford and also Millsboro. 

    11) LACK OF MONITORING - Renewable Oil International DE, LLC has developed this new process which they call “fast pyrolysis biorefinery technology” and are trying to fly under the radar because they claim that it does not meet the requirements of a traditional incinerator.  It is completely unclear that any monitoring by appropriate officials of the products including the syngas produced by this facility would occur.  How will the citizens know what is being emitted into the atmosphere or being sold as biochar for a soil amendment?  It appears that not a single toxic pollutant will be monitored on a regular basis.  Since testing isn't being done for most of the toxic and hazardous pollutants, any claims of emissions and products produced at the two facilities being "clean" or "safe" need to be understood in the context that no one really knows what's being produced.  It is a given that companies have no interest in obtaining data on their emissions if they're not forced to.


    Conclusion: 
    Full and careful risk assessment for all contaminants should be required, in order to relate contaminant toxicity to type and quantity of products to be produced at these two facilities, assess safe application rates and operating pyrolysis conditions.
    Respectfully submitted,

    Genell Pridgen
    Socially Responsible Agricultural Project
    PO Box 1390 Molalla, OR 97038
    www.sraproject.org
    (252)286-7006
    Rainbow28580@yahoo.com

    Maria Payan
    Socially Responsible Agriculture Project
    9 Aubel Rd.
    Delta, PA 17314
    (717)456-5800
    payans@zoominternet.net

               Bruce Ballantine
               Cindy Wilton
               27927 Possum Pt Rd.
               Millsboro, DE 19966
               Members and Representatives
               Protecting Our Indian River

              Mr. & Mrs. K. Haynes
              27976 Old Swimmimg Hole Rd.
              Millsboro, DE 19966
              Members and Representatives
              Protecting Our Indian River

    References:

    1 - Comis, Don (2010), Better Ballfields and Rain Gardens Start Below the Surface. Agricultural Research Magazine. November/December 2010 ‐ Vol. 58, No. 10.

    2 - Momplaisir, G. M; C. G. Rosal; E. M. Heithmar "Arsenic Speciation Methods for Studying the Environmental Fate of Organoarsenic Animal-Feed Additives," U.S. EPA, NERL- Las Vegas, 2001; (TIM No. 01- 11). Available at: http://www.epa.gov/nerlesd1/chemistry/labmonitor/labresearch.htm Arsenic concentrations cited as 15-30 ppm.

    3 - Miller, C.V., T.C., Hancock, and J.M. Denver, 2000, "Environmental Fate and Transport of Arsenical Feed Amendments for Animal Agriculture," American Geophysical Union, 2000 Spring Meeting: Integrative Geoscience Solutions -- A Start for the New Millennium, May 30 - June 3, 2000, Washington, DC. Abstract available at: http://va.water.usgs.gov/GLOBAL/Abst/hancock_agu_2000.htm Arsenic concentrations cited as 15-35 ppm.

    4 - Miller, C.V., Foster, G.D., and Huff, T.B.. 2000. "Organic compounds and trace elements in the Pocomoke River and Tributaries, Maryland." U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-57. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/ofr-99-057/

    5 - "Chickens, manure, and arsenic," Environmental Science & Technology Policy News, March 22, 2001. Available at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es012337m Arsenic concentrations cited as 30-50 ppm.

    6 - "Poultry's Price: The Cost to the Bay," The Washington Post, August 1, 1999, pA1. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/chicken1.htm

    7 - Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) Workshop Report, "Non-Nutritive Feed Issues in Chicken Production," Tidewater Inn, Easton, Maryland, October 2, 2001. Available at: http://www.chesapeake.org/stac/pubs/wrkshops/AgReport.PDF

    8 - Holleman, John T. In Arkansas Which Comes First, The Chicken Or The Environment? Tulane Environmental Law J. 6.1, 1992. Concentrations of metals in Arkansas poultry manure cited in "Intensive Poultry Production: Fouling The Environment" article by United Poultry Concerns, on the web at http://www.upc-online.org/fouling.html. "Factory poultry manure contains heavy metals. The 5,100 tons of poultry manure produced daily in Arkansas dumps into the environment, each day, 3,100 pounds of manganese, 3,300 pounds of iron, 540 pounds of copper, 3600 pounds of zinc, and 300 pounds of arsenic." The concentrations given for arsenic work out to 29.4 ppm.
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