Osnabrück politicians in a dilemma
Conflicting opinions on Herhof Stabilat
Wuppertal counterproductive Freiburg
A recent report by the Wuppertal Institute recommends that the city of Osnabrueck, which generated in the port RDF not to drive to Itzehoe to the cement plant, but to burn the ground. This would improve the CO2 balance of the city significantly. As the New Osnabruecker Zeitung (NOZ) reports, however, would have an incinerator has a capacity of 120,000 tonnes in the year in order to operate economically. Herhof but produces only about 50,000 tons stabilate year. Another 70,000 tonnes of material per year would have to be transported into the city.
Such an incinerator in the city, the city fathers did not, however, when they commissioned in early 2001 Herhof the construction of the MBA. Under the impression of a different opinion, they decided unanimously to prohibit the burning of alternative fuel in the city. The study comes from the Freiburg Institute for Applied Ecology in 1998, the RDF is described as highly dangerous. The Residents voted to the MBA with the proviso that the stabilate is not burned in their neighborhood.
present, the city fathers have now two opinions: the Öko-Institut is an old and a new one from the Wuppertal Institute, which has known for many years with Herhof good relations. The 150-page study by the Wuppertal is not listed on their website
http://www.wupperinst.org/de/home/
in the project list. According to the study of NOZ is funded by the Federal Environmental Foundation. On their website
www.dbu.de
but is not included in the funded project list. Are there still is not another promoter of science, to be named?
A real dilemma for the city leaders.
sources
The opinion of the Eco-Institute from 1998
"System Comparison of different methods of waste treatment in the district of Neuwied"
Dehoust, G., Bunke, D.; Espinagosa, R., Gärtner, S.; Jenseit , W. Stahl, H., in collaboration with the Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt / Freiburg, 1998
(Client: District Administration Neuwied)
The Institute, the study still seems to regard as valid. She was listed in December 2007 in its reference list (infrastructure and enterprise).
www.oeko.de / files / download / application / pdf / iuref.pdf Page 24
English version, p. 25
www.oeko.de / files / download / application / pdf / iuref_engl.pdf
The "information service for active environmentalists," Ö-point, wrote in the spring of 1998:
"Update on the RDF
the Öko-Institute (available for DM 36, - Oeko-Institut) confirms what is already longer condemned by critical experts: The Trockenstabilatverfahren can not nearly keep the promises of its proponents. In this waste treatment method that is currently on everyone's lips, waste is dried, free from interference and inert materials and then subsequently burned at high energy efficiency. The costs here are far below those of conventional combustion processes.
should therefore get the dried waste into the cement factory or other industrial furnaces. Because there but the state of the flue gas cleaning technology lags far behind the incineration of large amounts of pollutants are emitted. Durable carcinogenic substances such as chromium, nickel and cadmium are released, for example, 177-times more than in methods, the residual waste to rot and then brought to the landfill. Also, mercury and lead are approximately 70 - and emits 60 times more. Since destroyed by the process of the pollutants contained in waste or to a significant extent yet discharged from the fuel cycle, but also be formed by the new cement kiln pollutants in large quantities, speaks from the Öko-Institut with the procedure of any waste management aptitude. ... "
http://www.projektwerkstatt.de/oepunkte/althefte/ausgaben/01/41_muell.html
" Time "in its issue 06/1998:
" Red Card for the yellow bag
By Fritz Vorholz, TIME, 06/1998
... Nevertheless, warns the Environment Minister Angela Merkel in Bonn: An environmentally sound disposal should not be sacrificed for lower prices. In fact, the eco-balance of Ihmels waste revolution is controversial. The Öko-Institut certified Trockenstabilatverfahren his least serious ecological risks: burned in cement kilns, caused the pellets astronomically high emissions of carcinogenic substances. The EPA wants to express lack of important data is not yet concluded. ... "
http://www.zeit.de/1998/06/Rote_Karte_fuer_den_gelben_Sack?page=all
New Osnabruecker Zeitung of 7 May 2008:
shake "Climate protection on garbage taboo
By Frank Henrichvark
Osnabrück.
comes after seven years, a highly controversial topic on the agenda again. In March 2001, it was the high point of the debate on the future waste disposal in urban and Osnabrück has passed the City Council a unanimous decision: An energy recovery (incineration) of Herhof RDF in the urban area should not be allowed. Now it seems to be possible, which could then not be.
In the next week to present the renowned Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, an environmental review of the city of Osnabrück. The Öko-Institut have surprises in it too, so it is already making policy and environmental management: Among other things, have the reviewers to use the cheaper by 80 percent of CO2 emissions from the combustion of RDF Herhof compared to fossil fuels. And they also take the additional truck routes a bead, resulting presently in the disposal of the waste to the RDF Fürstauer way.
currently processes the Herhof plant in the port up to 85000 tonnes of household waste in city and county. It caused about 45,000 tonnes annually so-called RDF, which are burned as a substitute fuel in cement industry. Alone, 30,000 tons will be driven by truck up to Itzehoe.
Herhof reportedly paid up at the outlet is on the rise. The company has signed long-term purchase contracts. In view of rising energy prices but there is an increased demand for such energy sources for firms that have adequate combustion and high heat and power demand have.
Against this background, have studied the tips of the major groups represented in the Council with the issue. There first "preliminary" and to potential buyers, so yesterday confirmed Mayor Boris Pistorius. At the same time he urged a substantive debate, although the issue had been in the past, occupied highly emotional: "The current policy position is the city in an advantageous position." Pistorius was referring to the unanimous Council decision of March 2001 that a combustion the Herhof stabilate was excluded on the city. Similar
expressed yesterday by the SPD parliamentary leader Ulrich Hu and Joseph Thoele for the CDU. First, the subject needed at all in the relevant Council Committee (the Committee for Urban Development will meet on May 15) on the table: "It was not easy to enforce the Herhof plant in town, although in fact at that time the county has been on the course," so said Hus, ". and just because this is an emotionally charged issue, I argue for an objective discussion"
And Joseph Thoele said that there was in 2001 "good reasons" for the unanimous council decision: there would now " give very good reasons "to overturn such a decision.
Sabine Bartnik (Green) also said that her party was "still at the beginning of the discussion" and it would have different aspects to be considered.
Only the FDP has been established: it was "economically and environmentally advantageous to allow the use of substitute fuel in the region," Thomas Thiele said in a press release "
http://www.neue-oz.de/information/. noz_print/stadt_osnabrueck/19436002.html
New Osnabruecker Zeitung "of 15 May 2008:
"For a better climate than the city
By Frank Henrichvark
Osnabrück.
16 pages, to have it all: This closely printed Paper presents the Wuppertal Institute for Applied Ecology today the Committee on Urban Development has taken action to CO 2 reduction for the city of Osnabrück. The weightiest proposal with the greatest impact is surprising: it is to build a power plant for combustion of RDF from the Herhof plant.
The Wuppertal Institute, an independent consulting firm for Climate, Environment and Energy, started in October 2007 with work on an action plan to reduce CO2 emissions. The Federal Environment Foundation supported this opinion, the long version at 150 pages a detailed set of energy conservation and climate change presents to the city.
In summary, will be presented today (17 clock, Town House, Room 717) to the Committee for Urban Development and Environment, the reviewers first twelve projects with a view to illuminate their climate impact, including a cost-benefit terms. Therefore be excluded first energy-saving investments in municipal buildings and the area of energy services by the utility.
The range of proposals extends over three areas: Estens counseling for behavior change, perhaps with the help of a neighborhood rehabilitation supervisor in depressed urban areas, counseling of vulnerable households, promotion of public transport, or the termination of an "Energy Saving Scouts" for urban properties. Second, the investment
should be promoted in energy-saving techniques: Replacement of heating pumps, investment in energy-saving models in new purchases, natural gas and LPG as fuel for municipal vehicles, or the rehabilitation of schools by using "Citizens Capital.
And the third column suggest the verifier to switch to CO2 cheaper forms of energy: for example, by using wood chips heating for public buildings or the operation of a biogas plant based on the city green container and (from 2016) and the organic waste container.
The effect of all these approaches are difficult to quantify. They are between a few kilograms per household and a few thousand tons a year. Projected probably be limited at 8000 to 10000 tons of CO2 savings per year.
The "by far the most effective measure," says the Wuppertal Institute, would be against the proposal to a power plant for combustion of alternative fuels (RDF from the Herhof plant) to produce electricity and process heat: For a 100-megawatt power plant puts the report the savings of up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.
These two quotes from the report: According to a study by the Federal Environment Agency is the concept "provided an efficient use of heat and an exhaust emission control as a whole very positive approach to evaluate ". The important thing is the customer question, for example in the paper industry. "For the paper making large quantities of process heat and electricity are used, so can be used particularly well in this industry, the specific advantages of combined heat and power"
Currently, the total CO2 emissions in Osnabrück, taking account of private households, transport, trade and industry 1.6 million tonnes of CO2. Therefore, writes the Wuppertal Institute of Osnabrück also a serious warning to heart. There were still "considerable pent-up demand to reduce CO2 emissions to the goals of the Climate Alliance to achieve. "The debate is open."
http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/stadt_osnabrueck/19501978.html
New Osnabruecker Zeitung "of 19 May 2008:
"Tilting the Council of the burning ban?
By Wilfried Hinrichs
Osnabrück. The taboo is broken, ruled out a reversal in the waste policy is no longer: In a few years there could be at least a hundred-million-euro plant to be in Osnabrück. Here is an overview of the state of the discussion.
The word waste is avoided zealous in the debate. SPD party chief Hu Ulrich can upset even really like it at the meeting of the City Development Committee said that if in the papers "incineration". That was the wrong approach and causing anxiety. In fact, he has
right. Would not burn garbage, but RDF, which produces the company Herhof the harbor from our trash. RDF is a substitute fuel (RDF) and the calorific value of lignite.
Hus does so precisely because he and the entire City Council of the citizens are in the word. 2001, the Council unanimously decided to allow no thermal recovery of the RDF in the city. In this condition, the sorting system at Fürstauer way by people in Pye and Eversburg was accepted. However, many of today's Council members were in the trash decision 2001 was not there. SPD politician Alice Graschtat has outlined the background to the decision at that time the group members in an extensive collection of documents. They warned of a breach of faith, emphasizing the credibility of the policy.
But now added a whole new perspective: the climate. The city wants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions of the climate killer, and that is best served by the combustion of RDF. It contains over 60 percent biogenic substances whose combustion is carbon neutral. The stabilate can replace fossil fuels such as in the paper industry. The bottom line would be a saving of just over 50000 tonnes of CO2 a year.
In the CO2 balance will also include the transport routes. The paper mills Osnabrück have come in part from the coal Colombia and South Africa. To this end the counter-statement: An incinerator would have a capacity of 120,000 tonnes in the year in order to operate economically. Herhof produced nearly 50,000 tons stabilate. Additional material would have to be transported. Today the reverse is true: The Osnabrück stabilate is burned in a cement plant in depots bei Itzehoe. Conclusion: No matter how the shipments go to their CO2 emissions would stay neutral.
is clear, while the prices. Today Herhof to pay that the cement factory burns stabilate. But that can turn, especially since the international trade climate-neutral pollution permit the use RDF makes it interesting. Companies that emit less CO2, save money in the future.
The investment cost of 100 million Euro is a high hurdle. The bureaucratic hurdles are lower: Because not waste, but would substitute fuel burnt would be no planning approval processes necessary. Governed by the Federal Pollution Control Act (Federal Pollution Control Act) which, currently being revised and will be taken strictly. The city could take only limited influence over the planning law.
The decision of 2001, the Council but another lever in the hand. This because it is Herhof impossible to come stabilate for combustion in Osnabrück. And what Sense would require an incinerator when the locally produced stabilate not likely to be used? This means that the Council should cancel its decision to allow companies to make their way free. That does not seem impossible. Even a renowned environmentalist, as Volker Bajus called the whole thing ". An interesting issue"
http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/stadt_osnabrueck/19528621.html
Thank you for your valued interest in our blog .
Kind regards Henriette Franke for waste management criticism of authors
