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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-23-2005 FPL Power PlantWORKSHOP WITH FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED NEW POWER PLANT AGENDA G / MONDAY, MAY 23, 2005 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. ROGER POITRAS ADMINISTRATION ANNEX COUNTY COMMISSION CHAMBERS 1. CALL TO ORDERICOMMISSIONER FRANNIE HUTCHINSON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 2. INTRODUCTIONSICOMMISSIONER FRANNIE HUTCHINSON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 3. PROJECT INTRODUCTION- RACHEL SCOTT, FPL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER 4. 10 YEAR POWER PLANT SITE PLANS AND ELECTRIC POWER PLANT SITING ACT- BOB TRAPP, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF ECONOMIC REGULATION, FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 5. HEALTH EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL EMISSIONS, RALPH ROBERSON, RMB CONSULTING AND RESEARCH AND DR. CHRISTOPHER TEAF, HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 6. PROPOSED SW ST. LUCIE POWER PROJECT - DAVID HICKS, FPL DIRECTOR OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 7. PROJECT NEED - STEVE SCROGGS, FPL MANAGER OF INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING 8. PERMITTING PROCESS AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT - BARBARA LINKIEWICZ, FPL LICENSING MANAGER 9. FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION/BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 10. PUBLIC COMMENT 11. SUMMARY 12. ADJOURN NOTICE: All Proceedings before this Board are electronically recorded. Any person who decides to appeal any action taken by the Board at these meetings will need a record of the proceedings and for such purpose may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made. Upon the request of any party to the proceedings, individuals testifying during a hearing will be swum in. Any party to the proceedings will be granted the opportunity to cross-examine any individual testifying during a hearing upon request. Anyone with a disability requiring accommodation to attend this meeting should contact the St. Lucie County Community Services Manager at (772) 462-1777 or TDD (772) 462-1428 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting. 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O n � � O CD O cc: 6LL /loc,,rw A do &N At oa=n x- F�rE o Dear Board of County Commissioners,�- I hope you will forgive this unasked for intrusion into your business affairs, but I felt I would be less of a citizen of Saint Lucie County if I didn't make known to you my research on the so called "Clean Coal Power Plant." The Impact of Building a Coal Burning Plain in Port St. Lucie Florida Power and Light has requested that St. Lucie County Board of Commissioners let them build a "clean coal burning power plant" on St. Lucie County property. They want to build an 850-megawatt plant of at least two units, and a possible third. The electrical power generated by these units will be added to the power grid that supplies all of Florida Power and Light's customers. At the present time, FPL gets only 28.5 percent of its electric from coal burning power plants and 71.5 percent from natural gas, oil and nuclear power. This power plant is not being built because Port St. Lucie population has ballooned, but because of South Florida's tremendous growth. In addition to the above technical information, why would Florida Power and Light try to put a dirty coal burning power plant in Port St. Lucie, when they are building two 1,100 megawatt natural gas -fired power turbines in Palm Beach County, and just begun to operate a new natural gas -operated unit (#8) in Martin County. Martin County's natural gas plant now produces a total power of 3,7100 megawatts of electric power, making it the largest electric generating power plant in the state of Florida, and the fourth -largest in the United States. Further more, I feel the reason FPL did not attempt to use coal in Palm Beach County and Martin County was because the tax payers would be up in arms over the thought of having coal pollution in their own backyards and the serious health problems that will result. The tax payers would never approve a coal burning power plant in their counties. This means Port St. Lucie will have the largest coal burning power plant in our own backyard, simply because there are railroad tracks in back of the Reserve homes in St. Lucie West. This made a perfect area to deliver the coal and remove the ashes from a coal burning power plant. So if they (FPL) call it a "Clean Burning Power Plant" the county will give its okay to build. What a great financial opportunity this will be for FPL! Cheaper Utility Coal Fuel Pollution Worries There are no clean coal burning power plants in the United States, or for that matter, the world. Furthermore, the coal FPL stated they will burn Bituminous (or soft coal), which is from the Appalachian mountains and is the cheapest, most commonly used coal in all the old Coal Burning Power Plants in the United States. To top it off, FPL said it will purchase even cheaper coal from Columbia. This coal gives off considerable more pollution than Anthracite, or hard coal, which is mined mainly in Northeaster Pennsylvania. Anthracite coal has the highest rating off all coal because it produces the lowest pollution of all known coal. The commission on independent, bipartisan advisory body, has recommended that the Federal Government spend an additional $4 billion over 10 years to speed up the power industry's acceptance of the technology. In a recent report, the commission concluded that the future of coal and the success of greenhouse gases will depend, to a large extent, on whether this technology called "Clean Coal Technology" can be successfully commercialized and developed over the next 20 years. Coal The plants being planned today will have a life time of a half -century or more. "It's a very frightening specter that we are going to essentially have to live with. The carbon pollution emissions will be around for the next 50 years, before we even have a chance to think about cleaning up the present pollution problems," stated Jason S. Grumet, the executive director of the Nation Commission on Energy Policy. I believe that the tax payers of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie should be aware of the pollution from this coal burning power plant will produce. It will cover the entire area of St. Lucie County, and every home and business in this area will be forced to deal with this pollution in their own backyards, not to mention the acid rain that will fall on their homes, yards and cars in the tropical climate in which we live. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to give Coal -Fired Power Plants, which belch toxic mercury, until the year 2018 before making serious cutbacks. "NOTE: Florida Power and Light has built a "Clean Burning Power Plant" in Fort Lonesome, Florida, where the so-called "Clean Coal Plant" produces seven times the amount of pollution produced by natural gas - fired plants." Startling new research shows one of every six women of childbearing age in the United States may have blood mercury concentrations high enough to damage developing fetus', as well as possibly damaging the cardiovascular, immune, and reproductive systems. Chronic low-level exposure in the pre -natal or early stages of a child's life can delay development and hamper performance in attention, fine motor skills, and language, as well as visual and spatial skills and verbal memory. Humans are exposed to mercury primarily by ingesting contaminated seafood. Forty-five of fifty states have issued consumption advisories limiting the eating of fish caught locally, because of their high mercury content. The largest source of mercury pollution is a coal-fired power plant. Other atmospheric emissions from coal burning includes sulfur dioxide (So[sub 2]), carbon dioxide (co[sub 2]), particulate matter and nitrogen oxides (No[Sub x]), which in turn, forms ground level ozone. (So[Sub 2]) and ozone are highly corrosive gases that cause respiratory distress and contribute to low birth weight and increased infant mortality. (So[Sub 2]) and (No[Sub x]) are the primary cause of acid rain. (*Co[Sub 2]) is the dominant gas responsible form the greenhouse effect that is warming the planet. Particulate matter from coal combustion has long been known to harm the respiratory system. New research confirms that small airborne particulate matter can cross from the lungs into the blood stream, leading to cardiac disease, heart attacks and strokes. According to the American Lung Association, air pollution has been related to the following diseases: A) Asthma B) Bronchitis C) Emphysema D) Lung Cancer The power plant corporations impose the cost of pollution on people who breathe, so the people who pollute can avoid the cost of controlling this pollution. Clean Air and Politics of Coal The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) is controlled by the head EPA office in Washington, who cam out with a new program titled "New Source Review (NSR)" which regulates emission from coal-fired electric power generating plants. By underlying any debate and preventing compromise is a deep disagreement about the future of the powerful coal industry (who has give nineteen million to the Bush election committee). The administration would protect coal usage, whereas others give precedence to public health. The EPA administration's approach would allow Coal -Fired Plants to keep polluting, while the power plant industry develops a technological "Clean Coal -Fired Power Plant" to reduce today's pollution problems. It's a sad day when Florida Power and Light have to build coal-fired plants by manipulating public opinion. 1 am hoping that the decision of approval of rejection of Florida Power and Light's request to build a coal-fired power plant in St. Lucie County will be based solely on the facts in which 1 have researched. The administrator and the Board of County Commissioners should strip away all of the glitzy public relation jazz in which Florida Power and Light surrounds themselves with. I feel I have shown how sinister the power industry is , and how far they are willing to go with their "big lie tactic." Even though FPL is a prosperous and powerful company, I sincerely believe the people of St. Lucie County would demand the Board of County Commissioners to reject this "Clean Coal -Fired Power Plant." Sincerely, John F. Downing tiost• i rage:) oI mandate that every power plant cut mercury emissions to a certain level, the swapping program would give credits to plants that cut mercury emissions to less than a prescribed level; those plants could then sell the credits to companies willing to pay to avoid making, reductions of their own. The EPA regulations wood give the electric -power industry until 2018 to cut its total annual mercury emissions to 15 tons — a 69 percent reduction. The industry would have to meet an interim limit of 34 tons — a 29 percent reduction — by 2010. Agency officials say that the industry would automatically meetthe 34-ton target if power companies installed pollution - control equipment that would be needed to comply with the Bush administration's proposed limits on emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. The EPA's critics point out that the emissions -trading plan would allow the worst polluters to buy credits rather than reduce their mercury discharges. And the rule potentially could women,"hot spots, geographical areas with dangerously high concentrations of mercury in their waterways. Opponents call the administration's approach inadequate and note that the EPA's previous analyses had indicated that the power industry could meet much stricter standards with technology that is already available. And both environmentalists and industry lobbyists agree that the agency's plans to apply a never - before -used part of the Clean Air Act to establish the emissions -trading program is likely to trigger years of legal challenges. 911 70 lz 60 . 50 40 Top Nine States for Mercury Not Spots . Pa. Texas Tenn. MAP: DANGEROUSLY HOT SPOTS: Mercury emissions are so concentrated in some parts of the country that the waterways there are dangerously contaminated. According to a 2003 draft EPA report obtained by Environmental Defense, in -state emissions were the source of more than 40 percent of the mercury in the hot spots in the nine states with the worst problems. Bush administration officials are fighting back. Their insist that their 2018 goal for cutting mercury emissions by 69 percent is appropriate because, they say, the most advanced means 0 con o mg a pollutant won't be available till then. Leavitt argues that the Bush administration deserves credit for proposing the first -ever controls on mercury emissions from power plants. The Clinton administration was sued twice by environmental activists before moving forward with mercury controls to comply with a consent decree. Even then, President Clinton didn't formally order the EPA to regulate mercury until days before he left the White souse. "Frankly, previous administrations have put this decision off for a long time," Leavitt told National Journal. "We nade the decision that we were not going to walk away from it." http://web2l.epnet.com/citation.asp?tb=l& ug=sid+EO6B5A27%2DQ2B6%2D4895%2DBC6B?/o2D335... 4/14/2005 ht.t l' ; 11 w w to. -et a. oP//.e.H,e&/atr pd f1qCr.pjn Cawl) us Pew&,a.,ol ft-e e4 ti�4• U.S• �.�.V<Ro"!'1r1n.2�,,�a-� �/QQT'.tC's�do�- � t -)ta/mor.6D l!Q�Sov u RL : t� :l - n.c� y Y. 5-4."4 efey U n i or 6 eo'7re-e 1pi e j S'ef-C-)L-/ts s V R4 ; �j tf ; ��GvGv �cv . 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