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BIOMASS EXAMPLE
WORST CASE IMPACTS“KLAMATH BIOMASS”
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECITVE
• ROOT PROBLEM CAUSE AND STRATEGY TO MINIMIZE
• Inadequate and misinterpreted state and county laws allows:
• --Conditional site use on private land anywhere • regardless of adverse impacts (citizens/environment)
• --Rulings that there are no significant impacts• No laws requiring evaluation of impacts• Impacts outside the council’s jurisdiction• Agency/DOJ Interpretation of no significant impacts
• Last resort solution: legal mandamus action and injunctions to force agencies to protect citizens/environment
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• EXAMPLES OF WORST IMPACTS:
• SITE LOCATION –WORST IMPACTS
• --Upwind—homes/non-attainment area
• --Sandwiched between residential/wildlife area on wetlands
Solution: Elimin. bad sites up front (Gov’s streamlining plan), state laws, country ordinances require protection of citizens and wildlife from adverse impacts
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PLANT AND TRUCK POLLUTION WILL ADD TO EXISTING EXTREME HEALTH PROBLEMS
• --Residential area vulnerable
• --Community vulnerable
Solution: State laws/county ordinances require protection of public health
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PLANT/TRUCK POLLUTION WILL ADD TO EXISTING POOR AIR QUALITY CONDITIONS IN BASIN
--Adjacent neighborhood propensity to attract toxic pollution
--Worst air quality in state and nation and recent Clean Air Act violations/ sanctions
Solutions: Sanctions and precedent cases will not allow plant in basin
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• AIR QUALITY IMPACTS GREATER THAN PERMIT• CAUSED BY INADEQUATE AND MISINTREPRED STATE AIR QUALITY
LAWS (ACDP)
• --Do not protect public health
• --Allow significant increase in toxic pollution in basin and no offsets
• --Allow underestimated emissions
• --Unaccounted for emissions and no modeling of cumulative emissions
• --Inadequate emission controls and DEQ oversight
• Solution: Enforce Clean Air Act laws, new precedent case
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UNACCOUNTED V PERMITTED EMISSIONS
PERMITTEDEMISSIONS
UNACCT'D FOREMISSIONS
PERMITTED EMISSIONS --ACDP Permit (site only)
Source: SORO expert reports
UNACCOUNTED FOR EMISSIONS (Worst conditions) --Excess site (malfunctions/variability's-open loop sys.) (Weak permit—omissions, miscalculations --In Adjacent neighborhood -Diesel and ash trucks -Chip pile fires and odors, etc. -Other truck influxes (log and gravel) -Other plant’s emissions drift
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--OTHER IMPACTSImproper interpretation of state and county laws allow:
• --Adverse impacts to fish and wildlife and endangered species
• --Other impacts and Seismic risks
• --Long run negative benefits
Solution: Mandamus legal action
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• STATUS IN SITING PROCESS
• --STATUS • --Contested case—stay• --History--3 years in the siting process
• --RULING • --DOJ findings—state law compliance• --SORO conclusion—inadequate protection of citizens, community, fish and wildlife and environment
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FUTURE STRATEGY
• --Subpoena evidence
• --Conditions
• --Litigation and injunctions