By the time state and local officials are done making very bad choices, you won’t be left with any clean air or water in the North Florida area. The cumulative negative effect on your health from the seemingly endless announcements for projects announced for the North Florida area that will be incinerating wood, garbage, farm and municipal wastes, and other forms of so called “Biomass”, is a frightening thought to contemplate.
The Gadsden County Times printed a public notice today – January 14, 2010 of Intent to Issue Air Permit for the City of Quincy, Byrd Landfill Air Curtain Incinerator (to resume operations)……..a smaller version of the Biomass Incinerator planned for Gretna. Permit applied will allow for 800 hours of operation, as opposed to the 8700+ hours of operation for the Gretna Biomass Incinerator. The City of Quincy Incinerator will Produce the following pollutants for you and your fellow residents to breathe:
- 67.6 tons of Particulate matter
- 20.8 tons of Nitrous Oxides
- .5 tons of Sulfur Dioxides
- 98.8 tons of volatile organic compounds.
Keep in mind that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection does not look at air quality in Quincy when they determine permitting incinerators – they look regionally, taking samples from Gainesville, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Valdosta, etc. and do not consider the cumulative effect of the Hazardous Air Pollutants pouring from the many incinerators being scheduled for the North Florida Area.
Your air is about to become a health hazard to you and you can thank your state and local politicians for the privilege of being poisoned.
The Biomass industry intentionally targets poor rural communities because they know that they will receive the least amount of opposition in these communities. They believe that Gadsden County is so poor rural, uninformed and desperate that you won’t mind not one, but two wood burning incinerators in a community of 20,000 people, located within a few miles of each other.
The City’s incinerator is located across the street from the hospital that Gadsden County voters agreed to have their taxes increased to fund renovation and operation last year – Location, Location, Location!
Merry Christmas Quincy, Florida…..
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.