PSC Meetings
Well, we missed one already, but the PSC is holding 3 meetings this week on the energy proposals before they deny all three so they don’t look anti-windfarm when they pick the coal. Tommywonk has the scoop (and a hell of a nice set of facts).
7 p.m. March 6, House Chambers, Legislative Hall, Dover
7 p.m. March 7, Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus theater, Georgetown
7 p.m. March 8, Carvel State Office Building auditorium, 820 French St., Wilmington
If anyone attended tonight, please post any reviews here.
The DEM leadership shifted their NCC 7th District informational meeting considering a candidate to replace Wayne Smith from Wdenesday to Thursday evening. It now competes with PSC meeting.
go figure.
Across the state in 2005, 8.4 million pounds of chemicals were released into the environment, mostly to the air. That was down from the 10.3 million pounds released in 2004, according to the most recent version of the federal Toxic Release Inventory, which compiles the releases of hundreds of toxic chemicals.
The full federal report is not yet available, but in 2004, Delaware ranked 44th among states.
The state’s two largest power plants — the Conectiv and Hay Road operations at Edge Moor and NRG’s Indian River power plant — and Valero Energy’s oil refinery near Delaware City (then owned by Premcor) combined were the cause of 73 percent of the total chemicals released.
Counting waste treated or recycled at individual plants or transported for off-site disposal or recycling, the state’s total toxic pollution increased by 4.4 percent, to 96.6 million pounds.
WNJ report
The most toxic thing in Delaware is our refusal to act to reduce emissions not hide them.
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