Trash turns to power in Norridgewock (Maine)

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/6865051.html

NORRIDGEWOCK -- When Chris DeSantis, vice president for Waste Management, New England, told his children what he would be doing in Maine on Thursday, he put it in very simple terms.
DeSantis told his kids that the company's new Crossroads Landfill gas-to-energy plant is what their future will look like, as people learn to harness what once was waste and turn it into electrical power.

"Children are learning that waste is a really valuable resource," he said. "As they get older and take over responsibility of this world, it's an opportunity for them to keep pushing and identify alternative sources of energy.

"Waste Management has the capacity to take the contents of our kitchen waste basket and convert that into energy that can power our kitchen lights. It takes progressive thinking, courage and innovative solutions to change the world."

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The plant taps decomposing waste in the Norridgewock landfill, harnesses the resulting methane gas and turns it into electrical power -- enough to light 3,500 homes for the next 20 years.

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It's why they keep building pipelines to the state to import Algerian and Trinidadian gas.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/307139/gas_firm_seeks_pipeline_upgrades_plan_would_improve_infrastructure_to/">Gas.


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept02me.xls">More Gas


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept04me.xls">Then some more gas

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05me.xls">Quick, some one send out for Amory Lovins for some greenwashing.

The number of dumb fundie anti-nukes who have a plan for permanently disposing of dangerous natural gas waste is zero, the same as the number of dumb fundie anti-nukes who have any fucking idea about how to prevent http://www.afrol.com/articles/10850">dangerous natural gas accidents.

I note that dumb fundie anti-nukes would be screaming year after year after year if 23 people were killed at a Maine nuclear plant, but since the 23 dead here are brown Muslim guys in Algeria who died to using gas infrastructure to to be used for Maine, they couldn't care less. In fact, if it were 1,000 dead, the anti-nuke cults still couldn't care less.

How do I know?

The number of dumb fundie anti-nukes who give a rat's ass for the 200,000 people who died in the renewable energy accident at Banqiao in 1975 is same as it ever was: Zero.

Maine produces 49% of its electricity from renewables (hydro, biomass, biogas and wind) and only 41% from natural gas.

Those Canadian gas pipelines supply natural gas to Southern New England and NEW JERSEY - not Maine.

Don't let the facts get in your way...

:rofl:

JSC/NRC. It's where that waste is originating from that is worth a huge :wtf: The situation in West Old Town is no different. Against State statutes, that were supposed to not allow out-of-state waste to be disposed of at a State owned landfill, it's happening, and right out in the open.

Casella and Waste Management own Augusta.

Pine Tree in Norridgewock stinks and leaks. One tough lady whom has refused to sell her land has kept it from growing exponentially. There was a bill in the last legislature written just for that dump to be able to expand unabated.

I cannot share the joy