Slash left to rot before the new era of biomass incineration
I’ve heard all the Simpson propaganda about how the new plant will make our air cleaner. One of the arguments I hear is that there will be less truck traffic because they will start burning the slash instead of trucking it out. I’m not falling for that.
Simpson currently burns what? It mostly burns sawdust and bark from whole logs, not bundles of biomass. That’s right Simpson doesn’t currently truck slash in! And I’ve also been told that the saw dust is currently barged out to Tacoma to burn in Simpson’s Tacoma Biomass incinerator, but I don’t know if that is a fact. If that is true it would mean that slash is not currently being trucked out so there are no truck trips to save there! I’m going to spend some time up at the view point watching and taking picture of what I see going on down there. BTW I used to have a job (for one day) trucking sawdust out of Simpson. We worked on a pile of saw dust that was very old and rotten, maybe even 100 years old, and we trucked it out to landscaping companies in Kitsap County. That’s right for many, many years they used to just store all the sawdust in a pit. I was told that that the pit was cleaned out about 10 years ago.
Bundles of John Deere Biomass trucked in to Evergreen Elementary School
Anyway, getting back to my point, contrary to Simpsons claims of less truck trips, I contend that Simpson will greatly increase truck traffic when it starts trucking in vast quantities of slash to feed both their and Evergreen’s incinerators. How exactly are all those bundles of biomass made by the John Deere machines going to get to Shelton? I’ll give you a hint, there are no train tracks left in the forest and you can’t run a barge down Goldsborough Creek.
I believe that there will be a huge net gain in truck traffic as a result of Simpson’s biomass plant. And we have been told that the trucks generate more pollution than the burning of biomass. So to me, it just doesn’t add up that the new biomass incinerator will bring us wonderful cleaner the air.
Photographs copyright Shawnie Whelan 2010 all right reserved
Anyway, getting back to my point, contrary to Simpsons claims of less truck trips, I contend that Simpson will greatly increase truck traffic when it starts trucking in vast quantities of slash to feed both their and Evergreen’s incinerators. How exactly are all those bundles of biomass made by the John Deere machines going to get to Shelton? I’ll give you a hint, there are no train tracks left in the forest and you can’t run a barge down Goldsborough Creek.
I believe that there will be a huge net gain in truck traffic as a result of Simpson’s biomass plant. And we have been told that the trucks generate more pollution than the burning of biomass. So to me, it just doesn’t add up that the new biomass incinerator will bring us wonderful cleaner the air.
Photographs copyright Shawnie Whelan 2010 all right reserved
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