Category: Stafford/Fredericksburg Incinerator

Take a look at what has gone on, and what might happen in the future.

  • Stafford Landfill Map – Surrounding Areas

    The proposed incinerator will be less than 1.5 miles from Brooke Point High School, Stafford Middle School, Cliff Farm High School site, the Stafford hospital, the Senior Center, the Rowser Building, and Brooke VRE.
    The proposed incinerator will be less than 1.5 miles from Brooke Point High School, Stafford Middle School, Cliff Farm High School site, the Stafford hospital, the Senior Center, the Rowser Building, and Brooke VRE.

  • Stafford/Fredericksburg Incinerator On-line Discussion

    From July 28, 20/13 to August 2, 2013 there were over 40 posts on the subject, on the first page, and there are 2 more pages, with a similar number of posts. A lively discussion. Some highlights: (1) the opening post, first paragraph states: “Stafford County has been keeping secrete the details of a lease at the landfill for a Waste to Energy facility. The details of the lease only became public when the City of Fredericksburg put the lease on their website over a month after the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved the lease.” What a way to start.

    There is a lot of good reading there, including things like a discussion about the amount of tires that would be imported into Stafford as feedstock for an incinerator; questions about the success/failure of the few projects the proposing company cited their involvement; why Goodyear and Firestone both gave up on that technology (couldn’t sell the byproduct, and couldn’t find a way to integrate it into their products); and lots more. The waste oil from “melting” the tires was what the incinerator company was going to sell, if they could find someone to buy it. That someone would actually burn it, sending their fumes East, across the oceans, or anywhere across the lands. But, what’s even scarier, from an environmental perspective, is to think that they actually might be able to sell it. If they do, it would be to someone who would burn it, releasing all that stuff into the air, or the ground water, or just the land.

    http://fredtalk.fredericksburg.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1712722&an=0&page=0#Post1712722

  • Fredericksburg City Council Approves Pyrolysis Incinerator Lease

    http://news.fredericksburg.com/businessbrowser/2013/07/09/fredericksburg-city-council-approves-landfill-lease/

    Energy Extraction Partners, LLC is under the umbrella corporation Creative Energy Systems. In this article, CES states that it has similar pyrolysis projects progressing in other cities. However, those projects don’t seem to be going anywhere. Fredericksburg.com, July 9, 2013.

     

  • Waste Rubber-Derived Oil – Toxic, and part of the previous Stafford Incinerator Proposal

    http://psrcentre.org/images/extraimages/413024.pdf

    Pyrolysis of waste tires makes “a dark brown to almost black liquid which is highly viscous with a sharp and irritating smell, and contain high concentration of sulphur (p.16).” The oil industry has discovered that the waste oil from tire incineration MIGHT SOMEDAY be an alternative fuel. According to this report, it hasn’t yet proved to be a viable option. ICCEE, Jefrey Pilusa & Edison Muzenda,  April 2013.

     

  • Citizen Voice Concerns about Stafford Incinerator

    http://news.fredericksburg.com/staffordnews/2013/08/08/eep-replies-to-citizen-concerns-about-waste-to-energy-proposal-in-email/
    Energy Extraction Partners, a subsidiary of CES, attempts to explain why a tire incinerator would be a good thing for Stafford County. The company repeatedly makes​ unsubstantiated claims about their successes, and the safety and efficiency of its technology. But they also make important statements that would force any rational person to not build an incinerator at all. Fredericksburg.com, 2013-08-08.

  • Testimony before the Stafford Board of Supervisors, April 1, 2014

    I come before you again to try to get you to make the right decision for Stafford . DO NOT BUILD an incinerator at the Eskimo Hill Road landfill.  Given that our landfill has an expected life of 30-50 years, there is no need to rush into a bad decision. Instead, build upon Stafford’s excellent record of recycling, and become another jurisdiction that recognizes the need to protect its residents’ health and environment, like San Francisco, Austin, and others.

    Ø      Some Board members are gung ho in favor of a private company building and operating an incinerator, despite the fact that health study after study shows that incinerators are bad for everyone, and especially bad for children, expectant mothers, and seniors.

    Ø      Some Board members maintain that the environmental impact is overblown by residents who prefer not to do anything. In actuality, those Board members seem to be motivated by their dislike of paying taxes, and are willing to poison the environment and damage citizen’s health to avoid that.

    Ø      Some Board members insist that their favored technology, pyrolysis, isn’t an incinerator, despite the fact that the US EPA defines that technology as an incinerator, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality states that it will be regulated as an incinerator.

    Ø      Some Board members have stated that the incinerator proposals will not cost taxpayers anything. The first attempt, stopped by public outcry in August 2013, would have committed County residents to pay $6.3 million to improve the road leading to the landfill. Those road improvements were needed to handle trucks that would have brought tires from all over the country into Stafford to be incinerated. Our new motto would have become:Stafford, the Tire Burning Capital of the World.

    Ø      Some Board members denied that there would be any toxic waste created, but the agreement  they signed had provisions for dealing with the toxic waste that would, in actuality, be generated. No protections in there against noise, odors, and water pollution, either.

    Ø      It is a good thing that the previous attempt was stopped, because the proposed incinerator would have required lots and lots of water, that Stafford simply does not have. Their new RFP states that no water would be available for operational use of the incinerator. So, if tires are brought in and a fire occurred, there would be no way to put out a tire-driven fire, and all the billowing black smoke and poisons that escape into the air.

    Ø      Getting a consultant to evaluate the RFP and the proposals is not the solution, because, as anyone knows, you can buy any answer you want. That simply allows the Board to point fingers when things go wrong.

    To everyone here in the gallery: Ask yourself this: why would the Board be in favor of paying $6.3 Million to fix roads for a private company, when it won’t spend the money to properly fund our school system? 

    In about a week, we will be placing information about the proposed Stafford incinerator on the soon-to-be-operational website “StopTheStaffordIncinerator.com”. Take a look, get informed, then express your outrage to your Board member that they are even considering putting an incinerator in your back yard. It is your health and your environment and it is up to you to stop this.