I'm inviting you to attend the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board
meeting on Monday, in Brooklyn's Boro Hall, at 6:30 pm on Monday, Nov. 7.
This month's discussion will be on intense incineration of garbage, a
technology somewhat euphemistically called "gasification". Only
6 or 7 people attend regularly, everyone is friendly, and it's a very
good opportunity to learn, to question, and to let your opinion help
guide the Board in arriving at a decision.
If you have already formed an informed opinion on this, please get it to
me, so I can make sure it is represented at this meeting.
- Mitchel
Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board
Agenda
Place: Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon
Street
Date: Monday, November 7, 2011
Time: 6:30pm
Approval of Agenda
Introductions
Over the next three or four months the S.W.A.B. will present a series of
events in honor of Adeline Michaels who recently passed away.
Adeline was an energetic, dedicated and outspoken member of the Brooklyn
S.W.A.B. for many years, and was the first among us to encourage a fair
hearing for the disposal of NYC municipal solid waste through the process
of gasification as opposed to export to landfills or incineration.
We will discuss this process at a time of growing global energy demand,
accelerating emissions of greenhouse gasses, the increasing rate of
climate change and what has come to be know as "extreme" fossil
fuel extractions; i.e., mountain top removal for coal, hydro-fracking for
gas and the most polluting and dangerous of all, tar sands extraction of
oil.
Guest: Ken Foladare, from
Chinook Energy Group in Chester, NJ, will speak with us about
his company's success in converting MSW to energy or fuel through several
operational gasification facilities. Our discussion will cover financing,
project
footprints, toxic emissions, impact on recycling, and much more.
Please join us for what promises to be an exciting and timely discussion
made even
more so by the devastating nuclear events in Fukushima, the growing
disillusionment
with nuclear energy in general and the request by Entergy for a 20-year
operating
extension for the nearly identical nuclear facility at Indian Point
serving NYC. Add
to this, the ever increasing tipping fees and diminishing available
landfills for New
York City's exported waste.
INVITE
FRIENDS
BRING QUESTIONS.
Open Discussion
Chair Report:
Active
participation in the Brooklyn S.W.A.B. is encouraged.
For more information please call Ken
Diamondstone at (718) 522-5437 or Nancy Walby at (718) 258-2701.