Posted on 08/04/2011 3:36:34 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
A Pipestone wind-turbine blade manufacturing plant has been hit with a $490,000 civil penalty for a series of air quality, hazardous waste and stormwater violations.
In a court settlement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency last month, Suzlon Rotor Corp. agreed to settle the violations by paying the penalty and by completing corrective actions at its southwestern Minnesota plant.
The consent decree was entered July 7 in Pipestone County District Court.
The problems stem from a 2009 MPCA inspection, which found that sandblasting operations there far exceeded emissions standards for airborne particles.
In addition, the agency determined the company failed to evaluate or to properly manage hazardous materials and waste. Those violations included improperly dumping lead-containing damaged turbine blades in a landfill. That lead has since been recovered.
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The left would apparently cannibalize their very own bodies if...who knows why, but apparently they would.
Hit them again, harder!
Soylent green..
They were real big on wind power until private enterprise “started” to make it viable. Now they want to kill it before it IS viable. Same with Solar. As soon as someone seriously wanted to build a plant in SoCal, Libs went off the deep end to stop it.
Energy means prosperity, prosperity means independence and that’s something the left cannot tolerate. Eventually regular people will figure out what the left is really about and thanks to Obama’s policies, that day is very soon...for many it’s already here and happening daily. Just hope we can rebuild the country the right way and as lib free as possible once the really big poop hits the rotating device.
And under the same rules the EPA would shut down every farmer that plows his/her fields...
Land of the free is now a sad joke.
The regulations the bureaucrats have imposed on our country are so massive and complex, they could have every one of us in violation of the law.
Call your office.
Windmills are a centuries old technology. If it made economic sense, it would have been a big part of American power generation in the 60’s.
They need to go back to mining stone and carving pipes there.
In next week’s news, Suzlon Rotor Corporation announces closing of Pipestone, Minnesota plant, movement of operations to a plant outside of Beijing.
yeah but there are “waivers.”
might be time to rent that.
I’m sure that within the next 6 months or so there will be another story about Pipestone wind-turbine blade manufacturing plant being moved to China.
Back then people could feed themselves.
In the near future we’ll need the shredded poultry downstream to feed the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression.
I think Wind power has definite limited uses, like remote location power, but on a massive scale the libs wanted at one time, it’s probably never going to make economic sense.
My comment was more directed toward the tech having made advances and just the fact that it was becoming ‘more’ of a viable option (though no where near doable on a wide scale economically) that advancement alone was enough for them to scream that it’s killing birds and other ‘sudden’ menaces to society.
Battery energy storage still have some economic issues. Pumped water, not as much.
We drove west through there a month ago to pick up I-29 in South Dakota....just on the inside of that state line we all of a sudden hit a “pavement ends for next 17 miles” sign; and it did. It had just poured so we slid through that soggy, muddy segment and totally piggified the car.
The new “Green” being the old “Red”.
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