Update ~8:25 AM
Yesterday, there was an article in the Watertown Daily Times concerning the possibility that the Army would be pulling out of their contract with ReEnergy to supply Fort Drum with 100% of their power for the next 20 years. If the Army reneges on their contract this may not be a bad thing. The Re Energy biomass plant that supplies electricity to Fort Drum has been touted as providing clean, renewable energy, but a report released in April of 2014 concluded that burning wood is more polluting than burning coal. If that isn't bad enough ReEnergy's Fort Drum facility was granted a permit by NYSDEC to burn tires and creosote soaked wood to produce electricity. When synthetic rubber tires are burned, the byproducts they produce include highly toxic beryllium, lead, cadmium, selenium, silver, manganese and chromium 6.
Yesterday, there was an article in the Watertown Daily Times concerning the possibility that the Army would be pulling out of their contract with ReEnergy to supply Fort Drum with 100% of their power for the next 20 years. If the Army reneges on their contract this may not be a bad thing. The Re Energy biomass plant that supplies electricity to Fort Drum has been touted as providing clean, renewable energy, but a report released in April of 2014 concluded that burning wood is more polluting than burning coal. If that isn't bad enough ReEnergy's Fort Drum facility was granted a permit by NYSDEC to burn tires and creosote soaked wood to produce electricity. When synthetic rubber tires are burned, the byproducts they produce include highly toxic beryllium, lead, cadmium, selenium, silver, manganese and chromium 6.
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| Illustration from How Biomass has become the new coal |
Link here to read DEC permit allowing ReEnergy to utilize tire derived fuel at fort Drum page (77)
Link here to read the New York State Department of Conservation 2017, permit review allowing ReEnergy to burn tires and creosote impregnated wood at its biomass facility located on fort Drum.
Sources:
Grist ~ What’s worse than burning coal? Burning wood
PFPI~How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
Watertown Times~ ReEnergy could lose its Fort Drum Biomass Plant Contract
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