Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Crap alert!
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Points for thinking outside of the pen. Boos for potentially endangering people's health, though it's unclear how the new chicken-poo electric plant will affect minorities more than the rest of the population. Last time I checked, lots of different kinds of people lived in rural areas.
Opponents of burning chicken droppings as a renewable energy resource are lobbying state lawmakers in a bid to derail three proposed power plants that would use manure for fuel.The opposition has grown to include the state NAACP, which says that building the proposed power plants in rural areas would expose blacks and poor people to arsenic and other pollutants.
The criticism presents another public relations hurdle to Fibrowatt, the Pennsylvania company that has spent the past decade exploring the state for development. Fibrowatt promotes itself as a clean energy company but has met opposition in several states where it has proposed the plants.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
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