Who in their right mind wants to put a plant in Kings Beach?

Hey Everybody that cares...Its time to WAKE UP!

If we don't stop the proposed biomass plant in KB, Libery Energy is going to ram this down our throats. Don't think a biomass plant is going to have an impact?

Here is what I found out in the Sierra Sun:


"INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Smoke emissions, heavy trucking traffic, pungent smells and noise — they all accompany biomass operations in Loyalton, and it's possible they can disturb residents residing in proximity, a regional expert said.
Burning biomass in Loyalton, large semi-trailer trucks haul wood and green waste into the plant, Turner said. Once it's burned, it emits smoke, water vapor and other assorted chemicals into the atmosphere; the amount emanating from the plant's smoke stack varies according to type of the wood, he said." Sierra Sun

Why-Economics. They want to burn our wood fuel to power a few thousand homes in the area without having to truck the fuel as far. They want a higher profit margin.

Read more below:

Friends of Lake Tahoe was created to protect the Lake Tahoe region and halt the construction of a disastrous biomass power plant in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Children at Risk: Placer County and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) are planning to build in the Tahoe Basin (North Shore - Kings Beach) such a facility, just off Highway 267, less than a mile from the water, within 1000 feet of an elementary school, in a high density population area. If approved, it will operate 24/7, 365 days a year and burn all the forest waste in a radius of at least 30 miles that is currently trucked out of the Basin to Loyalton, just north of Truckee, for burning in a biomass plant located there.

Environmental Degradation: It will pollute not only from Incline Village to Tahoe City but, due to the nature of the air inversion ecology of Tahoe's Basin, it will cast a haze that will drift and drift over the entire lake and degrade air and water quality everywhere.

Biomass Burning in a Basin is Not Green: While we do not oppose biomass power plants conceptually, they should be banned from the Lake Tahoe Basin. WE SUPPORT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BIOMASS BURNING POWER PLANT AT PLACER COUNTY'S INDUSTRIAL/UTILITY CENTER AT CABIN CREEK, JUST SOUTH OF TRUCKEE (OUT OF THE BASIN), WHERE ALL FOREST WASTE IS TAKEN FOR PROCESSING INTO BIOMASS FUEL.

Please be reminded, however, no biomass power plant will reduce open burning or increase the removal of forest fuels thereby reducing wildfires! These are separate issues!

AN ECONOMIC MISTAKE: Start up funding coming from earmarks not unlike those that funded the famous "bridge to nowhere," a Kings Beach power plant will cost millions to build, is totally unnecessary, and will require subsidies of precious tax dollars. It needs to be stopped.

CLASSIC BUREAUCRACIES AT WORK: Charging forward with a well intended idea but implemented in the wrong place ecologically (a basin subject to air inversions), a biomass burning power plant located in Kings Beach will endanger a precious congressionally declared outstanding national resource: Lake Tahoe! It is both sad and frightening. It should be located at Cabin Creek, out of the Basin.

DISINFORMATION OR BUREAUCRATIC CONFUSION?: Running what many consider to be an overly ambitious campaign replete with questionable claims, both Placer County and TRPA have stated in official governmental documents to have supporters and partnerships regarding the project proposed for Kings Beach, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the University of California, that don't exist. Challenged as to the veracity of such claims, they have now recanted, citing "inadvertent" language errors in such documents

Ignorance is NOT Bliss: Exploiting fears of wildfires and ignorance of current practices regarding open burning and the removal of forest wastes for disposal outside the Basin, they suggest connections to wildfire and pollution reductions that don't exist and won't occur. And, we anticipate that the current environmental study of the proposal, awarded without competitive bidding, will be seriously flawed.

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