“It’s time to look at climate change and emissions targets from a state wide, regional and planet level,” concluded Roselli. I’m asking the Office of Air Resources to utilize this group… Both EC4 and STAB are required to offered advice to get Rhode Island to meet the mandated CO2 targets. OctoPaul Roselli Carbon offset, environment, Invenergy, Roselli. The EC4 and STAB members represent multi-disciplines multi- state and private organizations with lots of expertise in all areas of air emissions and climate change. Burrillville Land Trust announces 2.2 million dollar campaign to Save Sweet’s Hill. “But often state agencies are siloed with a reluctance to gather or share information with other state or private agencies. “This is not to suggest that members of the Office of Air Resource don’t know what they are talking about or that they don’t use the latest findings or research on climate change or air quality,” continued Roselli. “Both the EC4 and the STAB are allowed to offer advice to state agencies as to the latest scientific information to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and offer mitigation strategies that would get Rhode Island to the reduction targets set forth by Public Law Title 42 Chapter 42-6.2 Resilient Rhode Island Act of 2014. Invenergy is the project builder for the Clear River Energy Center, a 900-megawatt electric generating plant that will run on natgas. “I believe the authority to review Invenergy’s Application for a Major Source Permit for is in existing legislation,” said Roselli. Come out to one of the most crucial public hearings on the fracked-gas and diesel fuel burning power plant that Invenergy has proposed for Burrillville, RI.
Roselli is asking the EC4 ( Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council) – Science and Technical Advisory Board ( STAB) to review the Invenergy application, review the OAR preliminary approval, review standards that could be used in evaluating the application, and offer science and technical advise to the Office of Air Resources on this specific application. The draft permit doesn’t use existing authority OAR already has seeking advice from the E C4/Science and Technical Advisory Board, doesn’t mention smoke stack height in the draft permit, uses outdated Regional Haze Rules and regulations, does not include smoke stack exit temperature and their relationship between temperatures and emissions, uses outdated and outmoded Selective Catalytic Reduction ( SCR) standards based on the years 19 there is no discussion about Unburned Hydrocarbons and fails miserably to recognize the accumulative impacts of deforestation, habitat destruction, construction, operation and maintenance of the nearly 40 other associated projects along with the Invenergy project.” “In brief,” said Roselli, “the draft permit is out of date: it uses old AERMIC and AERMOD weather and emissions modeling calculations.
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