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.
(Excerpt) Read more at iowacapitaldispatch.com ...
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?
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...............
Gotta dump that “reusable” crap somewhere. They don’t want it in their state.
BINGO !
Starting to think this green energy deal is a scam....
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Have faith. It has to get warmer eventually.
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.
Their best use for recycling
would be for use in concrete,
not asphalt.
Guess who...
State: Company illegally storing hundreds of old wind turbine blades at three Iowa sites
From 2019...
“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.
From what I’ve been reading it should be criminal as well as civil.
Interesting that it isn’t, though...
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.
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.
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.
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.
You’re not wrong.
Then that is fraud and a criminal felony.
Someone needs to go to prison...
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