PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE AT PLEASANT POINT ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Steve CrawfordEnvironmental Director
NTF JUNE 2-4, 2009Chair, TAMS Steering committee
Chair, USET Natural Resource Committee
Member, NTWC
Member, NTC
Member, TEPAC
Solar Power Photo-voltaics Geothermal RGGI review Algae biomass Windpower Tidal power Waste to energy Project Bunch of thoughts
Rural Renewable Energy Alliance Jay Edens Director Non-profit , based in Minneapolis Turn key production facility to produce solar
panels for less than $1,500 for 4 x 10 ft panels Generate enough heat to reduce heating bills 25% Much better than LIHEAP
Production facility employs 2 people, in 20’x 20’
Tribe may be able to access RGGI funds for development
Passamaquoddy Development and Supply
Production doubling every two years 12,400 MW globally Germany leads the world in photo-
energyproduction, with 30% less sun thanVermont.
Power cost /kwh will be at parity with fossil fuels by 2012
Carbon Credit fund, begun October 2008Quarterly auction for next 9 yearsFirst auction generated $2.8 millionFunds for reducing CO2 emissions$40,000 grant received for weatherization
of houses
“ There is no other resource that Comes even close in magnitude to the potential for making oil”
John Sheehan, energy analyst, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), DOE, Golden, CO
Corn, 18 gal/acre: Algae, 5,000 Lipid content, Corn <2%, Chlorella Alga, 44 20000 gal of algal culture = 300 gal
biodiesel Harvest every 4 days, 1,000 gal bioreactor
yields 300 gal biodiesel every 20 weeks.
Wind power site
Windpower site
WINDPOWER SITES
Wind powersite
15 months wind data Class 3 wind, commercially viable RFP to 13 contractors, resulting in one
proposal, DISGEN Simple lease, no ownership, annual
lease payment beginning at $227,000, escalate to $324,000 by year 25.
100% ownership would yield $7,623,000 first year, escalating to $10,723,000 by year 25.
Cedar Mountain, T3R9No met data, but approx 25 miles from 30.5
MW Stetson Mountain project being constructed.
Transmission line <8 miles, in Millinocket
Prentiss TownshipProbably best wind farm site in State, but
no transmission lines nearby.Quebec Hydro Line 8 miles to west
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TIDAL PROJECT SITES
UEK Turbines
2 – year FERC pilot lease, funded by BIA, ends 2010
Produce enough power to power sewage treatment plant, approx. $2,000/month
Further development of tidal turbine “farm” has low potential, might generate 2 MW to provide power for local area.Requires substantial regulatory
development, and at least 10 years away.
Not incineration Reduce volume Recycle metal and glass Recover energy
By-products: syn-gas, water, fly ash, glass, metals
Very little CO2Tipping fees approx. $40-50/ton
Proven Technology, with plants being used since 1992 by US Navy, Canadian Department of Defense, numerous different markets and site locations around the world and in the US.
50 Ton plant =200 ft x 85 ft x 30 ft building, greenhouse is extra
Tribal participation, on Tribal Trust landNear NEBCO office?Reclaim MSW dumps in Washington CountyReduce tipping feesGenerate power and heatReduce CO2 emissions5 acre greenhouse for algal oil production,
vegetable/medicinal plant production
We are at 387 ppm now, there is no return
Climate change and food 15 billion Tons CO2 equivelants from
agriculture Includes 7.2 billion Tons from livestock
World carry-over stocks of grain 2008= 62 days; a record low.25% of US grain is going to bio-fuel, enough
to feed 500 million Indians.
Take home messages: • To meet agricultural demand, productivity would need to double on a land area basis.
• CO2 fertilization of crop yield is only half of what is assumed in global food security models.
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Don Ort, Inst. Of Genomic Biology, U. of Ill. @ Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Climate change and water70% of all freshwater used for irrigationWheat production – 8% since 1997, Rice – 4%
Climate change and health: Direct:
Thermal stress, death/injury in storms, floods
Indirect:Changes in range of disease vectors
Impacts:Traumatic, infectious, nutritional,
psychological occurring in demoralized and displaced populations.
Every human exhales 1 ton of CO2/yr
8.2 Billion tons/yr CO2 released from fossil fuel combustion
THERE ARE 6.8 BILLION OF US
There’s a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
To illuminate us and save our world