http://newlygreens.com Walking Green for a Sustainable Garden State Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:30:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://newlygreens.com/feed/ Stories of green living from the early adopters walking the walk. Produced in NJ just outside New York City the show gives an East Coast flavor to implementing more balanced choices. Hosts Greg and Connie, "newlygreens" and not so newlywed, try take the stories to heart and and bring practical change into their own lives. It may not be about being the ideal, but it is definitely about finding inspiration and working toward something better. Kaizen Productions LLC clean Kaizen Productions LLC info@newlygreens.com info@newlygreens.com (Kaizen Productions LLC) 2010 Kaizen Productions LLC Eco Friendly Tales of Going Green from the Northeast sustainable, environmental, earth, nature, solar, wind, recycle, organic, green, eco, eco-friendly http://newlygreens.com/_content/_images/powered_by_podpress_small.jpg http://newlygreens.com http://newlygreens.com/blog/purgen-one-ccs-in-nj/ http://newlygreens.com/blog/purgen-one-ccs-in-nj/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:25:36 +0000 mattisong http://newlygreens.com/?p=3170 http://newlygreens.com/blog/purgen-one-ccs-in-nj/feed/ 0 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-2/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-2/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:40 +0000 Greg http://newlygreens.com/?p=1795 Interview – Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 2 Right Click for Mr. Campbell’s Power Point Presentation delivered to the Linden Town Council ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request to SCS Energy.  Round 1 goes to the [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-2/feed/ 0 Bradley Campbell,Purgen One,SCS Energy Interview - Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 2 Right Click for Mr. Campbell's Power Point Presentation delivered to the Linden Town Council ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request t... Interview - Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 2 Right Click for Mr. Campbell's Power Point Presentation delivered to the Linden Town Council ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request to SCS Energy.  Round 1 goes to the environmentalists. We continue our interview with Bradley Campbell Lead Council to the proposed Purgen One CCS Coal Plant in Union, NJ C: HIGH PROFILE ENDORSEMENT CLAIMS I was actually in attendance for your presentation to the Linden Planning Board in Sept, and I have a couple questions about some things you said. AL GORE In closing you said: Al Gore someone who normally opposes coal “… has spoken publicly and favorably about this project (Purgen One).” We contacted Mr. Gore’s office and received this statement from his Press Secretary: "To date, Vice President Gore has not endorsed any particular CCS project.  That said, he does not oppose the research and development of CCS technology.” They also refered us to his recent Repower America speech where he said publicly “The answer (to the climate crisis) is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.” Coal is a carbon-based fuel. Mr. Gore supporting R&D is not the same as his supporting deployment. Mr. Gore’s office is refuting your claim that he supports this specific project. Your statements could mislead people to think leaders of the environmental movement expressly support this project when in fact they do not.  How do you respond to that? The Reuters article referenced by Mr. Campbell as support for his claim of Mr. Gore's public support.  At no point in that article is Mr. Gore quoted a stating his support for this plant. To date we have been unable to find any published report of his support for this plant, and as we reported Mr. Gore’s office has stated he has not taken a position on this project. MR. Campbell cites the support of 4 National Environmental Groups: Clean Air Task Force (CATF) received an $845,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in 2008 to promote CCS; and a grant of $787,500 from the Joyce Foundation in August, 2006 to promote CCS, for a total of $1.6 million to promote CCS. Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) received a grant of $437,500 in 2006 from the Joyce Foundation to promote CCS, and a $750,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in 2008 to study ways to use money raised by a carbon cap-and-trade program to promote "clean energy." The Doris Duke Foundation uses the euphemism "clean energy" to mean coal plants with CCS. For example, see here and here. Source for this information, NRDC CCS Policy Doc UCS (Union Of Concerned Scientists) - The position of the UCS as I was able to ascertain is very similar to that of the Sierra club, what I would call reluctant acceptance.  The group seems to encourage the pursuit of proven, clean, renewable energy over experimental revisions to coal consumption. EDF (Environmental Defense Fund) - The EDF is not a hard line environmental group.  Their mission as stated on their site is to "partner with businesses, governments, and communities to find practical environmental solutions. Other National Organization's Positions on CCS National Wildlife Federation Urban Effects of GW Doc ------------------------------------------------------------ Growing Opposition Of the 3 front-runner candidates for Governor – 2 of them, Chris Christie and Chris Daggett have stated that they are opposed to the Purgen plant.  And in a press conference earlier today a coalition of environmental groups announced the formation of the Arthur Kill Watershed Alliance with the goal of fighting this project.  Currently in the Alliance are: Tremley Point Alliance NJ Sierra Club Edison Wetlands Association NJ Environmental Federation The NJ Environmental Lobby And Environment NJ They have also been joined by Linden Council President Robert Bunk. Kaizen Productions LLC clean 14:45 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-1/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-1/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:35 +0000 Greg http://newlygreens.com/?p=1792 Interview – Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 1 ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request to SCS Energy.  Round 1 goes to the environmentalists. This morning we have part 3 in our series on Coal energy and [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/bradley-campbell-purgen-one_part-1/feed/ 2 Bradley Campbell,CCS,Coal,Linden,nj,Purgen One,SCS Energy Interview - Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 1 ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request to SCS Energy.  Round 1 goes to the environmentalists. Interview - Brad Campbell :: Purgen One_Part 1 ***UPDATE*** On Tuesday Oct 20th, the town council of Linden voted 4-7 against granting the land use request to SCS Energy.  Round 1 goes to the environmentalists. This morning we have part 3 in our series on Coal energy and the battle over Purgen One, the prototype Carbon Capture and Sequestration plant proposed for the township of Linden, in Union County NJ. In past episodes we heard from the environmental opposition, this week we hear from the Lead Council to the developer SCS Energy. Pre Interview Set Up To give the listeners some insight, Union County, besides being among the most densely populated areas in the nation, is home to much Industry, Pharmaceutical manufacturing, and Petroleum refineries. The headquarters of companies like Merck, Lucent, Schering Plough, and Wakefern Food are there, as is the largest petroleum storage facility on the East Coast. Liberty International Airport, and Elizabeth Seaport the largest container cargo port on the East Coast are located in Union County as well. Speaking with us today is Mr. Bradley Campbell, he is currently the chief spokesman for SCS Energy, a Massachusetts based company that is proposing to build a 750MW coal plant in Linden, NJ.  This is not your grandpa’s coal plant.  By that I mean the plant’s design calls for the newest technology under development in order to clean up what is generally thought of as the dirtiest of our conventional fossil fuel energy sources - coal.  Welcome to Newlygreens on the Morning Blend on WP88.7 fm Mr. Campbell. C: To get us started can you tell us some of the significant ways the Purgen plant differs from a conventional coal plant? G:  COAL IS STILL DIRTY BEFORE IS GETS TO THE FRONT DOOR This plant is cutting edge, it is designed to manage the toxic byproducts of burning coal more effectively, both air pollution and solid waste, and in that sense it is a certainly a cleaner coal plant. But Purgen will still get it’s coal the old fashioned way; specifically mining and shipping operations by barge and rail will be performed in the same ways that have caused both health and environmental concerns for decades.  How do you respond to that? Will any of the coal used at Purgen come from Mountaintop removal Mines? __________________________________________________ C:  ENERGY NEEDED TO SEQUESTER CO2 – A HIDDEN COST Out of the 750MW this plant can produce, a full third of that, 250MW, of that energy will be expended capturing, compressing, and pumping the CO2?  Another statistic I’ve heard is that for every four CCS-equipped power plants, we will need a fifth power plant just to run the pumps.  If a sustainable energy portfolio is our ultimate aim, as I think you agree it should be, is this really a sustainable approach to take?  Doesn’t this technology in fact suggest we would have to consume more coal more rapidly? MR. CAMPBELL said that our estimate of the plant using 1/3rd of it’s generation to power sequestration operations was an exaggeration.  He then told us that the 750MW plant will use 250MW on site.  We would like to point out that this is  IN FACT THE 1/3rd we had estimated not AN exaggeration AS HE INDICATED. The point we were trying to uncover here is that this plant, as efficient as it may be, burns more coal in order to deal with it’s coal-based pollution. This means pulling more coal out of the ground, creating more solid waste containing mercury, cadmium and sulfur as well as, more CO2 emissions, all so we can bury the CO2 emissions created. As environmental groups and scientists call for us to move away from coal as a fuel source this plant is a boon to the coal industry in that it would call for us to burn more coal more rapidly.  A sustainable creedo is to do more with less, this seems a way to do more with more at best. ___________________________________________________ G:  ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Kaizen Productions LLC clean 18:13 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/peter-montague-coal-energy-part-2-purgen-one/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/peter-montague-coal-energy-part-2-purgen-one/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:50:31 +0000 Greg http://newlygreens.com/?p=1739 In the second installment of our interview with Peter Montague of the Environmental Research Foundation, we discuss the particulars of the first proposed Carbon Capture and Sequestration plant for the East Coast, Purgen One. There is lots of information on our site about this project but Peter breaks [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/peter-montague-coal-energy-part-2-purgen-one/feed/ 0 Atlantic Ocean,carbon,CCS,Clean,Coal,coast,dumping,IGCC,Linden,Liquid,nj,Peter Montague In the second installment of our interview with Peter Montague of the Environmental Research Foundation, we discuss the particulars of the first proposed Carbon Capture and Sequestration plant for the East Coast, Purgen One. In the second installment of our interview with Peter Montague of the Environmental Research Foundation, we discuss the particulars of the first proposed Carbon Capture and Sequestration plant for the East Coast, Purgen One. There is lots of information on our site about this project but Peter breaks it down so it makes sense. Be sure to check out the site mentioned in the interview for breaking news and calls for public action. Kaizen Productions LLC clean 23:22 http://newlygreens.com/blog/coal-power-plant-proposed-for-linden-n-j-basic-facts/ http://newlygreens.com/blog/coal-power-plant-proposed-for-linden-n-j-basic-facts/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:14:00 +0000 Greg http://newlygreens.com/?p=1685 http://newlygreens.com/blog/coal-power-plant-proposed-for-linden-n-j-basic-facts/feed/ 4 http://newlygreens.com/blog/linden-clean-coal-plant-82709-public-hearing/ http://newlygreens.com/blog/linden-clean-coal-plant-82709-public-hearing/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:33:00 +0000 Greg http://newlygreens.com/?p=1683 http://newlygreens.com/blog/linden-clean-coal-plant-82709-public-hearing/feed/ 1