Piedmont Green Power recently refuted charges from a Massachusetts group that petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to review the group’s permits, alleging the state has allowed the company to violate emission standards. (Photo: Rachel McDaniel)

PGP refutes pollution charges

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Tuesday, June 2. 2015

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By Kay S. Pedrotti

A Massachusetts group recently petitioned the federal Environmental Protection Agency to review Georgia permits for Piedmont Green Power in Barnesville, alleging that the state permit has allowed the company to violate emission standards.

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#1 I Care on 06/02/15 at 02:31 PM

Very interesting seeing that the plant nor the city of Barnesville care one ounce about the surrounding neighbors whose homes it has ruined because of the noise it produces also. Just so long as the plant makes money and the city can sell their sewage water to the plant is all that matters to either party. They have proved this.

#2 Mary Booth on 06/03/15 at 05:49 AM

A small correction here – the petition does not allege that the facility is actually now burning contaminated wood. It focuses on the fact that the permit does not contain any way of ensuring that the plant burns only clean materials, as required by law. You can see the press release describing the petition, and you can download the petition itself, at http://www.pfpi.net/pfpi-petitions-epa-to-overturn-permit-for-piedmont-green-power-a-60-5-mw-biomass-plant-in-georgia.

#3 I Care on 06/03/15 at 06:14 AM

People of Barnesville, this needs to be taken seriously. Maybe there is nothing wrong pollution wise, but if it is -you and your children are breathing this stuff. If you read about these plants ,they have a bad history. Unbelievable this has been brought to our town- I know I am worried about my child.

#4 Tom Rauch on 06/06/15 at 08:12 AM

There seems to be a lot of half-truths and spin on this by Piedmont and the wood power plant industry. Anyone who understands basic science would understand when the wood decays in the forest, it does NOT produce more pollution than injecting the wood into a high temperature furnace. Wood left to naturally decay returns nutrients to the soil, and makes a whole lot less pollution than burning in a white hot flame.

If they fib about one thing, what else are they fibbing about?

If it is a good thing, they should be able to show it on paper. They should have actual test results for everything related to pollution, and they should not take public money to operate.

How much public money do investors take away? Is the plant really doing honest tests, or are they just worming their way around testing?

Is it a good long-term idea to remove and incinerate nutrients from our forests?

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