GREC / GRU Biomass Incinerator Legal Challenge Underway in Gainesville, Florida

Posted on August 27, 2010 by diandv

PRESS RELEASE – August 25, 2010

CONTACT:  Meg Sheehan, Anti-Biomass Incineration and Forest Protection Campaign, meg@ecolaw.biz, cell  508-259-9154

A trial being held this week in Gainesville, Florida, pits anti-biomass opponents against the state and an out-of-state company.  Citizens are challenging a state agency approval of Gainesville Renewable Energy Center incinerator, being proposed by the Massachusetts based international joint venture, American Renewables, LLC.  The citizen leading the coalition, Dr. Thomas Bussing, former mayor of Gainesville, intervened to enter testimony in the trial in order to prevent harm to human health and the environment from the incinerator.  The GREC incinerator will burn trees to make electricity.

Opponents of the incinerator assert that local residents, particularly children, will suffer harm from the toxic emissions generated by burning wood at the Gainseville site. Continue reading →

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Motion to Intervene of Thomas Bussing, filed July 26, 2010, is granted in GREC case

Posted on July 29, 2010 by gainesvilleflorida

STATE OF FLORIDA
DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
IN RE: GAINESVILLE RENEWABLE
ENERGY CENTER, LLC

Case No. 09-6641EPP
ORDER GRANTING INTERVENTION

Subject to the ruling on any timely motion to dismiss filed
under Florida Administrative Code Rule 28-106.204(2), the Motion
to Intervene of Thomas Bussing, filed July 26, 2010, is granted
to the extent that leave is granted to Thomas Bussing to
intervene and participate as a party to this proceeding.
DONE AND ORDERED this 27th day of July, 2010, in
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.

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*   “There is considerable uncertainty about the economics of this project because the overall cost-effectiveness of the GREC Project is heavily dependent upon the cost of future carbon regulation, and the potential resale of half the project’s capacity.”
– PSC Final Order, June 28, 2010, page 21

**  Transcript of PSC First Agenda Conference, February 9, 2010  Lines 21-23, pg 25

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