nycmuzik Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 It really is. This is a report done by NBC after the new power plants were put in last summer. Turns out that the plant in Williamsburg is one of the dirtiest. This might explain the chronic cough I've been having......http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNBC/A1208960.aspNew Power Plants Not As Clean As PromisedNEW YORK, 7:54 p.m. EDT May 28, 2002 - Communities in New York City and Long Island filed lawsuits and mounted protests after the state went ahead and installed 11 mini-power plants during the summer of 2001 - without any community input or environmental review. The state said that they were on the brink of electricity shortages and blackouts - the things that Californians experienced last summer. Gov. George Pataki and nearly every other official involved assured the new generators would not add pollution. Even today, the New York Power Authority Web site calls them "the cleanest plants in the city," according to a statement the agency released to the press last summer. But since they went online in July and August last year, the plants have been anything but clean. The NYPA is required to send all of its pollution data on all these plants to the Environmental Protection Agency. Newschannel 4 got a copy of that data, and it turns out NYPA's own data shows the units ran as much as 32 times dirtier than promised during the summer and fall. The power plants' turbines ranged from .29 to .11 lbs of nitrous oxide per million BTUs. That meant 8 older plants in New York City and Long Island ran cleaner than the cleanest of NYPA's brand-new turbines. And the dirtiest two, in Staten Island and Williamsburg, were at the bottom of the barrel -- the worst in the region -- at the worst possible time. "That happened in the summertime and in the fall when ozone levels are the worst and nitrous oxide produces ozone," said Gail Suchman from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. "We're extremely angry because this is exactly what we'd predicted would happen all along," said Elizabeth Yeampierre of Communities United for Responsible Energy, which led the fight against the plants in Sunset Park. "This is what we told the court, this is what we told the press, this is what we told our community." NYPA said the data is accurate but misleading. "NYPA is committed to operating these plants at the highest environmental standards included in our permits and are confident that we are in compliance with those permits," said Luis Rodriquez of NYPA. "We did talk with the EPA and concluded that the data in its Web site does not accurately reflect the actual clean operation of these plants." NYPA said that the EPA's information was not entirely accurate because a portion of the pollution monitoring equipment at all the plants was not up and running until last month. So whenever emissions rose above a specific level, NYPA was required to substitute a worst-case number instead which they said skewed the data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by nycmuzik2000 It really is. This is a report done by NBC after the new power plants were put in last summer. Turns out that the plant in Williamsburg is one of the dirtiest. This might explain the chronic cough I've been having...... it'd also explain how ur a Polak and u have red hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycmuzik Posted May 29 Author Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by ghhhhhost it'd also explain how ur a Polak and u have red hair :laugh: You forget that I'm an immigrant. I already came here with red hair. But it might explain the third nipple I have...Ummm forget that last part.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fierydesire Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by ghhhhhost it'd also explain how ur a Polak and u have red hair nycmuzik move back to jersey..its much cleaner there:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by fierydesire nycmuzik move back to jersey..its much cleaner there:rolleyes: haha, wheres crobra with the tom's river jokes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmay Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 FUCK YOU ALL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fierydesire Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by highmay FUCK YOU ALL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklynkid Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 I thought it was Greenpoint which smelled the worst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by brooklynkid I thought it was Greenpoint which smelled the worst thats why lm & barvybe moved... their apartment was downwind of your place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fierydesire Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by brooklynkid I thought it was Greenpoint which smelled the worst it all smells the same in that vicinity:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by brooklynkid I thought it was Greenpoint which smelled the worst . . nah, they just have funnier accents . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycmuzik Posted May 29 Author Report Share Posted May 29 Originally posted by phuturephunk . . nah, they just have funnier accents . . . :laugh: Stick to the subject people...Dirty Air...Not Polish jokes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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