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- I have served the City of Isanti as Mayor since 2007. We have accomplished great things together and I look forward to building on our success. United, we move forward to a better future. You may contact me at 763-442-8749 or e-mail me at george@georgewimmer.com.
8 comments:
Thank you Mayor Wimmer for making a difference. Great work and keep it up. We need you to stick around for awhile.
Thank you for all of your hard work! Isanti is heading the right direction.
Will this poison our water all the more???
This process does not use any water nor is there any waste product going to the waste water treatement plant. This process is completely contained. It is also biodegradable. It would be the same as spilling vegetable oil on the ground.
You Rock!!!
Keep up the great work. I can not believe this is coming here. Love what you are doing for Isanti.
I don't have many facts about possible pollution caused by a plant like this. But I did find this article below.
"Biofuel plants generate new air, water, soil problems for Iowa"
http://www.fuelsandenergy.com/reprints/IowaEthanolPlants_DMR.pdf
Included in the article are these remarks...
"Iowa's ramped-up ethanol and biodiesel fuel production led to 394 instances over the past six years in which the plants fouled the air, water or land or violated regulations meant to protect the health of Iowans and their environment."
"Air: Plants emit higher levels of toxics than expected"
I think we've all read that Cambridge has been having a problem with the foul smell coming from the SunOpta plant, for instance. A different kind of business, but it should be cautionary.
Can you comment on the above information and fill us in on what the city has done to investigate the environmental effects of this plant?
Well as I have explained many times...this is a completely different process that is completely contained. The presentation made to Council clearly explained the process. I have visited the test facility 4 times and seen the process in operation.
The key points again are that this is a completely contained process. There is no water usage or waste water treatement issues. There is very little smell to the process and the Ever Cat facility will have air capturing equipment in the facility.
There is no comparision to any ethonal or current biodiesel plant. This is a completely different process.
We have talked with the state fire marshall's office, the MPCA and our local fire district.
If you would like to discuss this further please feel free to contact me and I can go over the information with you at City Hall.
reading through the article you pointed out....looks like 70% of the violations are about sewage polution limits and waste spilling into waterways. Neither of these can even happen in this process. There is no waste product to wash away as in the current biodiesel and ethonal process.
Reading further there we violations for illegal dumping and failing to get proper building permits. Again there is nothing to dump in this process and I can assure you nothing will start until all the proper building permits are granted.
The last serious issue seems to revolve around soil damage due to increased corn production. Again another strenght of the Mcgyan process is it can use numerous feed stocks as well as algae which is nature co2 scrubber...
I understand you may have concerns but none of the issues in the article you present are relevant to this process.
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