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KEEP is not the only group devoted to public saftey on this incinerator issue: Check out this page. Must login to Facebook (creating a login name is easy).
DOWNLOAD PETITION FORM HERE
DOWNLOAD SAMPLE LETTER TO CITY COUNCIL
Song "Clean Air" by Kenton Kovich
Please mail donations to:
KEEP
PO Box 1125
Erie PA 16512
Our new number is 814 899-KEEP (5337).
Erie City Council Meeting May 7 at 9:00 am (Erie City Hall)
If you want added to the agenda so your place is reserved for speaking contact, Marina Wolf by email or phone 870-1293
CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROPOSED TIRE INCINERATOR
Erie Renewable Energy (ERE) proposes to have 100,000 dirty tires delivered to its central city site daily. That site is within ˝ mile of 4 public schools. They will grind and incinerate (burn) 2
million pounds of tires per day and emit 8,000 lbs of toxic, one micron particles, out the 300 foot smoke stack every 24 hours for the next 40-50 years.
Annual emissions total 2,900,000 pounds consisting of particulates small enough to be absorbed by humans The DEP does not regulate one micron sized particles even though they have
been proven to be a greater health threat then larger particles. Along with significant Co2 emissions, 117 tons of ash will be need to be disposed of per day.
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that the odds of cardiovascular disease significantly increase with the increase of fine particle pollution.
ERE could store up to 1,000,000 tires at a time at its site. There is a history of catastrophic tire fires occurring throughout the United States and Canada.
The ERE business plan is to generate electricity and sell it to the grid. Is this expensive electricity needed? If the grid is forced to purchase the electricity at a higher price it will cost you
the consumer.
If the plant were built and was operating it would employ 60 people. But the emissions will threaten amongst others, the Curtze Food Corps 310 employees, Erie and Chautaqua County’s
$350,000,000 grape, and agriculture industries.
Lake Erie’s fresh water and fishing industry is adjacent to the plant and according to local and national biologists will suffer from this toxic operation.
Tires contain significant dioxins, pcb’s, lead, carcinogens and toxic chemicals.
There is only one small operating tire burning incinerator in the U.S. It is located far out in the country. A plant in California burned for weeks and cost the State tens of millions of dollars.
The owners walked away. The Ford Heights plant caught fire. The owner could not operate without taxpayer subsidy and closed.
Six thousand signatures on petitions have been gathered so far from citizens opposed to the world's largest tire incinerator being built along Lake Erie.
In the ERE emissions permit it is estimated that 80% of the tires would be delivered via rail. There will be 70 trucks per day with no estimate of the number of rail cars.
Over 21,000 gallons 19% aqueous ammonia will be stored on site.
Criteria Pollutants for CFB (circulating fluidized bed) units - tons per year
Particulate total -10 230 tons per year
SO2 179 tons per year
NOx 354 tons per year
VOC 27.6 tons per year
Pb .033 tons per year
CO 690 tons per year
The emissions from the cooling systems adds 6.79 tons per year of particulate.
The evaporation rate from the cooling towers is 801 gallons per minute which is 1,153, 440 gallons per day of water into the air.
The number of waste tires stored in Pennsylvania has steadily declined over the last several years. All of the waste tires in Pennsylvania tire piles would run this plant for 60 days (6 million
in piles per PA DEP Meadville office).
Come see our new convention center and the worlds largest tire incinerator is just 2.3 miles away. Visit our schools just one block away from the tire plant. Also, Presque Isle State Park is
very close by!!!!!!!
On Oct 3, 2007 Erie City Council voted on a nonbinding resolution requesting that Erie Renewable Energy provide an Environmental Impact Statement. This statement would analyze the
many ways this tire plant could effect the environment in the future. It would address many of the things the PA DEP will not. There were three council members who voted against the
citizens health and well being. Please contact these three immediately and ask them to reconsider their stand on this important regional issue. Those voting against the public were James N. Thompson, Curtis Jones Jr. and Joseph V
Schember. As of April 6, 2008 there has been no official response to Council from ERE regarding the resolution. This is not the action of a corporation who wants be a good
neighbor.
On March 5, 2008 Erie City passed a resolution directing the City Solicitor Greg Karle to prepare an ordinance to protect the public from new Title V facilities. Title V facilities are major
sources of hazardous air pollution (HAP). Those voting against the resolution that begins the process to protect the public were James N.
Thompson, Rubye Jenkins-Husband, and Joseph V. Schember. Please contact
those three members of council and tell them to do what they can to protect our environment. Tell them to do it for all children and future generations.
A City of Erie Firefighter has written a letter to the Erie Times and it has not been printed. You can find at above link or under Press Page.
Springirth, Rabat Document
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