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I read this article in the St Thomas Source from last week and copied the the below paragraph specific to the Alpine Energy Project. This sounds like the project is dead. Can anyone confirm this. Thanks.
WAPA has been searching for multiple ways to diversify its energy portfolio, including a past agreement with Alpine Energy Group for waste to energy plants that failed to get approved by the Senate. The agreement with Alpine was signed four years ago for a 16 megawatt facility on St. Croix, but the Senate failed to act. It would take between two to three years to bring a plant to St. Croix, board members said.
Posted : November 29, 2011 6:39 pm
There is in fact new construction going on at the entry to Anguilla. I think Alpine is not dead. Go drive to, and through, the dump. Look at the 100,000 tires they are planning to burn for energy. Then, go drive by Peter's Rest bin site, and tell me if you think we are safe to put our future in the hands of VIWMA.
I am scared. There will be no valid oversight.
Posted : December 1, 2011 4:27 am
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I believe the current construction at the STX site is for a "transfer station". In January, normal land filling operations are to come to a close since it is out of EPA regulation. The transfer station will take in the MSW (garbage) and compress it into large blocks ( 4 foot x 4 foot or so ). These will then be used to "encase" the existing landfill. Not sure if anything like a plastic wrap goes over the bails. Once this is done on STX, they will then concentrate on doing the same on STT. When both landfills are done, the goal is that the MSW will be processed by the Wastaway system into RDF fuel and then burnt in the Alpine energy plant on STX.
Note, one thing about the Alpine project that seems costly. They are putting an RDF plant on STT and then one on STX. They will then barge the STT RDF over to STX to be burnt in the one STX power plant. This requires a dock at 2 sites (... STT and also STX), plus all the constant shipping costs and inevitable dredging, etc. Why not just go with smaller power plants on both STT and STX? Each island gets some power that way.
Posted : December 1, 2011 6:06 pm
Why not just go with smaller power plants on both STT and STX? Each island gets some power that way.
agreed
Posted : December 7, 2011 12:42 am
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I guess it's not dead yet ......unless killed by the corruption in the senate.
Posted : December 10, 2011 1:47 pm
