Ag Industry - Bioenergy DevCo

Biogas Devco presentation at the Nanticoke Watershed Economic Development Seminar:

• 2/18/2021 by Pete Ettinger

Starting from 1:27:30 to 2:03:30 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arp_7ZY19vo&list=PL9riJYkhSQyf3GXHeRcjN0FnUPJ2SyqI1&t=5244s

For more information, go to bit.ly/bicadproject

Video on Proposed DevCo poultry-to-manure biogas production facility - in Seaford

https://fb.watch/3iFulcAjB2/

SRAP's Maria Payan, the Food & Water Watch and Sierra Club's Delaware Chapter talk about how families living in Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware, are vulnerable to a proposed DevCo poultry-to-manure biogas production facility that will haul poultry manure from all surrounding states into the area.

90% of Sussex County's waterways are already polluted; in this rural county, most residents rely on well water that is tainted, unsafe and undrinkable - often smelling like rotten eggs. This project imperils the safety of residents by adding an unconscionable demand on critically low water resources, threatening to further contaminate water reserves with fecal matter, and dangerously polluting the air both by the manufacture of biogas itself and by instigating a 24/7 truck traffic to the region that is required to support these operations.

Families living in Seaford and surrounding areas will be vulnerable to the spread of viruses, bacteria and carcinogens if this facility is allowed to operate. This proposal also jeopardizes the neighborhood with the risk of explosions associated with biogas manufacture.

Maria Payan

Senior Regional Representative

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project

Selbyville, DE 19975

mariap@sraproject.org

Delaware Factory Farm Biogas Messaging Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IAlATvm-9KxmWA_HEq5Q7mOhNm2AC8BcT2T_ovkejdE/edit

BP Wants to Stop Burning Off Gas in America’s Top Oil Field

The oil giant flares more natural gas than its peers in the Permian Basin, but is now investing heavily to phase out the controversial practice

• 4/17/2019 - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-wants-to-stop-burning-off-gas-in-americas-top-oil-field-11618750801?mod=searchresults_pos4&page=1

The burning of gas, known as flaring, is prevalent in the Permian because most producers there drill for more profitable oil, and often incinerate the gas that comes as a byproduct. They do so because there isn’t enough infrastructure to pipe and process all of the gas so it can be sent to market. Flaring is also necessary in emergency situations, when operators have to release gas to relieve pressure buildups.

But flaring has come under increased scrutiny because it results in sizable greenhouse gas emissions.

Emissions deadlines focus on the faraway future. But the problem is here now

• Paul Bledsoe - 4/18/2021 Washington Post (Printed edition, not online)

"Methane emissions, which is 80 times more powerful per molecule in producing warming than CO2, come from fossil fuels, landfills, livestock and the melting of tundra, among other sources."