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Lara Helfer has done a lot of permit work at ENSR. She described some of the difficulties in avoiding resistance by environmental groups to these projects. Ultimately, however, the support or rejection of coal projects will be impacted by whether the catastrophic trends actually develop. After the bad hurricane season a few years ago the global warming alarmists predicted that the next year would be even worse. Instead it turned out to be a season with few hurricanes.
Lara spent most of her time talking about the permitting challenges. They include air, wastewater, landfill, UACE, NEPA and States. She also provided power points with details on gasification of municipal waste, scrap tires, sewage sludge and biomass. She agreed with the participant observation that biomass from cellulosic ethanol plants would be a good gasification opportunity. She mentioned the financial credits for biomass substitution as significant. |
