“We have to prove to DEP that we are using the best technology that exists,” May said.
If you saw the first press releases from Rubino (ERE), they were going to gasify and liquefy the tires. He no longer says that. Now it is just that the tires will be incinerated.
I had done some research on this and there is a process which is cleaner called gasification. It has been done on a much smaller scale than the 2 million pounds of tires a day Rubino is saying will be done. It is also much more expensive. Maybe that is why Rubino quit saying gasify a long time ago.
If all of this is true, then the Tire Burning plant is not going to be using the best technology that exists, as the DEP requires. Does the PA DEP know about this?
Another point that has been brought up many times and written about in various papers is that the proposed Tire Burning Plant will not be able to get the number of tires they need. That is 2 million pounds a day, which is 100 thousand tires @ 20 lbs. That is 36 million 500 thousand tires a year. Rubino said that he has a contract to get them. At first it was from Waste Management--we asked them about it and we were told that there was no contract. That was 3 years ago. Now we are being told that the tires will come from within 50 miles of the plant.
I just found this PA Legislative Study, published in October 2007. Who had the study done? Why hasn't the public been told about this? The time frame fits with the announcement of the Tire Burning Plant. The Incinerator was in the Erie paper first on March 9th, 2007. When the study came out, it stated that as of that time, current tire recyclers were having to go out of state and country to get the tires they required.
This Tire Burning Plant would be the World's largest. Whoever had this study done found out that there already were not enough tires, so why wasn't anything said? What do they really plan to burn instead of tires? Why is the PA DEP going along with this charade? Shouldn't a study be done on what material will actually be burned, such as sewage sludge? That is what is burned in addition to tires at the plant in Japan that this plant is supposedly modeled after.
The above report is interesting in that it tells about how PA really isn't trying to foster true recycling of Tires. The primary responsibility for tires falls under DEP's Bureau of Waste Management. The DEP knows how many tires are available so why haven't they said anything? For over 3 years the PA DEP has been working on giving the Tire Incinerator a permit to burn up to 2 million pounds a day. Knowing as they do that the Tires are not available, why have they colluded in this cover up and the false claims that Rubino and friends keep making?
Doesn't this make you trust our elected and appointed PA State Government Officials?
Ask Them Why We Haven't Been Told The Truth,
Dennis Stratton
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