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State (Iowa) sues company accused of dumping wind-turbine blades
Iowa Capital Dispatch ^ | Sept. 26, 2024 | Clark Kauffman

Posted on 09/28/2024 5:40:51 AM PDT by Mean Daddy

The state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.

The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa.

The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws.

Global Fiberglass Solutions and its CEO, Donald Lilly, are named as defendants in the case, as is Ronald Albrecht, one of Global’s corporate officers. The defendants could not be reached for comment.

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Starting to think this green energy deal is a scam....
1 posted on 09/28/2024 5:40:51 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy; SaveFerris; PROCON

2 posted on 09/28/2024 5:45:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Mean Daddy
Well, if this outfit is in Washington State, what the hell are they doing sending old turbine blades to Iowa to be piled up on the ground somewhere, when they could just surreptitiously and apolitically just go throw them in the ocean?

Do they float? So what, just drill them full of holes and fill 'em up with gravel and then they'll sink.

No harm, no foul. See?

3 posted on 09/28/2024 5:52:27 AM PDT by OKSooner (I'm not sayin' we won't get our hair mussed a bit! - General Buck Turgidson)
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To: Mean Daddy

The blades are made of fiberglass, so chop and grind them up into small pieces and mix with asphalt then use for re-paving the roads. The fibers will help the roads last longer...............


4 posted on 09/28/2024 5:52:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Mean Daddy

Gotta dump that “reusable” crap somewhere. They don’t want it in their state.


5 posted on 09/28/2024 5:55:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: Red Badger

BINGO !


6 posted on 09/28/2024 6:02:43 AM PDT by knarf
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To: Mean Daddy

Starting to think this green energy deal is a scam....
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Have faith. It has to get warmer eventually.


7 posted on 09/28/2024 6:06:48 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Red Badger
The blades are made of fiberglass, so chop and grind them up into small pieces and mix with asphalt then use for re-paving the roads. The fibers will help the roads last longer...............

Uh, yes, but if you had actually read the story you've had learned that the company that is getting sued had been retained by the Iowa electricity that operated the wind turbines at issue to do precisely that. Instead, the allegation is, said company pocketed the money and, instead of doing what it had contracted to do, just dumped the turbine blades wherever.

If true, then this is just the same old/same old: a crooked business ripping off its customers.

8 posted on 09/28/2024 6:07:15 AM PDT by DSH
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To: Red Badger

Their best use for recycling
would be for use in concrete,
not asphalt.


9 posted on 09/28/2024 6:07:54 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Mean Daddy
From last year and Texas, behind a paywall but headline says it all...

General Electric Sues Texas Recycling Company Responsible for Sweetwater Wind Turbine Blade Dump The site in West Texas has been storing thousands of defunct turbine blades for years.

Guess who...

10 posted on 09/28/2024 6:14:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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From Iowa, 2021...

State: Company illegally storing hundreds of old wind turbine blades at three Iowa sites

From 2019...

Global Fiberglass Solutions Becomes the First US-Based Company to Commercially Recycle Wind Turbine Blades into Viable Products

11 posted on 09/28/2024 6:16:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Mean Daddy
MidAmerican and General Electric paid Global “millions of dollars,” the lawsuit alleges, to cut up, transport, and recycle the blades.

Why a Civil Lawsuit? Shouldn't this be a Criminal Prosecution for FRAUD and ILLEGAL Dumping of TOXIC Material???
12 posted on 09/28/2024 6:20:25 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Mean Daddy

“Properly” disposed of? In other words, somewhere else. What a scam. And the windmill blades are entirely NON recyclable. I’ve seen pictures of the blades being buried in fields. Hundreds of them and they are huge.


13 posted on 09/28/2024 6:25:06 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: eyeamok

From what I’ve been reading it should be criminal as well as civil.

Interesting that it isn’t, though...


14 posted on 09/28/2024 6:25:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Red Badger

From what I’ve read they’ve tried every possible way to recycle the blades and for whatever reasons there hasn’t been any way to do so.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 6:28:01 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: eyeamok

Check this is out, from civil court in the Southern District of NY and last year...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23991472-ge-v-global-fiberglass-solutions

That reads to me like criminal charges should have been brought as well.

And haven’t been as far can find.


16 posted on 09/28/2024 6:29:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: subterfuge

You know why that doesn’t matter?

Because Deep State doesn’t care.

Green policy is about saving the planet the same way CoupFlu policy and vaxxes are about protecting public health.


17 posted on 09/28/2024 6:30:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Mean Daddy

Several years ago a mafia run company in New Jersey got paid big money to dispose, properly, of chemical waste in barrels. They just stacked the barrels in rented warehouses and blew town when the warehouses were full. This sounds similar.


18 posted on 09/28/2024 6:30:43 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: mewzilla

You’re not wrong.


19 posted on 09/28/2024 6:50:46 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: DSH

Then that is fraud and a criminal felony.
Someone needs to go to prison...


20 posted on 09/28/2024 6:54:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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