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Comment 18 for Design Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-design-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Ann
Last Name: Schneider
Email Address: Ann.Schneider@sierraclub.org
Affiliation: Sierra Club NationalZero Waste Committee
Subject: Exclude Waste-to-Energy and Landfill Gas in Renewable Energy Standards
Comment:
Hi: I ran out of time in my 2 minutes at the microphone on July 19th to express the other great concern of the Sierra Club National Zero Waste Committee, the possible inclusion of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) and landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) into California's Renewable Energy Standards (RES). I couldn't find a description of what qualifies, or doesn't, in the draft scoping plan. Twelve states alredy exclude WtE from their RES and we would like to see California join this list of leadership states. WtE is in direct competition with composting and recycling. And it is by far more beneficial to society to recover materials for reuse, recycling and composting than to use them to create energy. The "Stop Trashing the Climate" study discussing this issue in great detail wwww.stoptrashingtheclimate.org has the full report. As for LFGTE, the Sierra Club is working on new policy so I can't state that excluding LFGTE is Club policy. But as I said in my spoken comments, if there is any chance that the systems needed to create high enough concentrations of methane, have additional and adverse problem of increasing the release of fugitve methane and accompanied VOCs with HAPS, then until proven one way or another, the inclusion of LFGTE in the RES could be very detrimental to people living near and downwind of landfills and to curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you. Ann Schneider Chair, National Zero Waste Committee Sierra Club
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-20 13:27:52
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