[Digestion] Environmentalists Anti-AD Issues

[Randy Mott]

The introduction to our odor White Paper:

"     Every major environmental organization has endorsed biogas as the most
environmentally friendly method of addressing management of organic waste.
These conclusions by professional environmental advocates completely
contradict the uninformed views of local residents overly concerned over
this issue.  Environmental groups widely support biogas as the preferred
method of dealing with biodegradable wastes." Instead of sending it to
landfill, anaerobic digestion allows us to convert this waste into biogas,
making it part of the solution." Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog
/climate/the-weekly-geek-anaerobic-digestion-20080220 . Greenpeace calls for
"biodegradable household and food industry waste" to be taken to a "local
biogas plant . urban centres." Greenpeace brochure on biogas in the UK, page
12:  http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/ FullReport/7154.pdf
.  Friends of the Earth has specifically endorsed construction of
biodegradation facilities in Poland for organic wastes since 2008.
http://bankwatch.org/documents/letter_ DGRegio_08_05_08.pdf. Note: all of
these groups are talking about biogas for waste management, not farm biogas,
which is an important distinction, explained below.

"     The question is obvious: what do these professional environmental
groups know about biogas than local Polish residents do not seem to know?
Obviously there is an information gap. We will provide the answer in our
description of the technology successfully developed in Denmark over the
last thirty years."


It gets better, but this is to get their attention.

Randy Mott
CEERES


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[mailto:digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Alan Muller
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Subject: Re: [Digestion] Environmentalists Anti-AD Issues

Well, on the original point, what I've seen in Minnesota is some enviro
types cheerleading for AD in a rather uninformed way, as if this is their
latest enthusiasm in a long line including corn ethanol, "biomass" burning,
etc.  Others, of course, are concerned that proposed projects wouldn't be
good neighbors.

The interest is sometimes connected to improved organics management, but
more usually to the--typically insignificant--electricity or "biogas"
production.  Rarely are people thinking much about the fate of the
digestate.  The investors and "economic development" types are mostly
interested in harvesting some of the various incentives associated with
"renewable energy."  They, and the politicians, are confused by the plethora
of folk peddling magic bullet solutions to energy and materials management
problems.  It matters not, apparently, that almost all of these ignore basic
principles of chemistry and thermodynamics we all supposedly learnt in high
school.

Overall, an amusing but not very productive scene.....

am


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