Teru Talk Newsletter
Volume II, Issue
21, May 21,
2012
Teru Talk by Michael
Theroux (pronounced
"Terú")
Teru's Trash Talk
There are two things that
are really necessary to
attract funding and
technology for waste
conversion. Both are easy
to say you will have in
hand, simple to assume the
work can be done, but
particularly difficult to
accomplish. The first
requirement is the
Feedstock, the second is
the Site. If however you
can actually get these two
elements in place, you've
set the table and can
invite the
Guests.
For example, you can't just
say that there is
"sufficient feedstock
available". You have to be
able to prove it. You have
to know what sort of stuff
the particular conversion
system(s) you have in mind
can and can't take. It's
not just what fits in the
front loading gate, but
what operationally will
result in acceptable
results, and what according
to the many layers of
social pathos, agency
policies, regulations and
laws can actually be
permitted. It is usually
verboten to cut into the
local recycling and
composting to garner enough
stuff to Feed the Beast.
Contaminants in the mix
don't help, and sampling
requires serious pocket
change. Distance matters,
so co-locate with the
source when you
can.
Also, you can't afford to
bet the farm that an
"adequate site" is ready
and waiting. Siting may be
as simple as drawing up a
real estate agreement, but
we usually find that "all
the good ones are already
gone." You need to know the
layers of land control and
understand the community
you expect to swallow your
concept and welcome you in
as a neighbor. Engage in
the process of local,
regional, state and often
federal economic
development. Don't expect
everyone to agree with you;
in fact, seek out those who
don't. Sit down with the
folks who are responsible
for the fate of that Site,
ask them if they are
willing to
negotiate.
Mind your details, make
plenty of notes and follow
through. If this Economy is
going to recover and waste
conversion is to take a
prominent place, guess
what: it's US that need to
figure it out and get it
done.
Hey
Rube!
This process of Cap & Trade
will now enter the gaming floor
in California, and it seems the
Air Resources Board expects
great things. One thing is
certain: this is another
crow-bar, leveraging the flow
of Business in a direction the
government thinks best. Some
will win, some will lose …
probably determined by how
closely you pay attention to
how these new gyrations might
impact your own ability to make
a living. See our News on the
upcoming ARB meeting on the
24th … Heads-up: here comes
another curve
ball!
The
Week's News
W2 Energy
Completes 100% Aquisition of
Agri-Green
Biodiesel
Ontario,
Canada based W2 Energy, Inc has
announced 100% purchase of the
Canadian firm Agri-Green
Biodiesel, Inc. including the
company's physical biodiesel
plant in Fernie, British
Columbia, Canada.
05/20/2012
Pioneer
Forest Products Selected by
USFS for 4FRI Restoration
Contract
The US Forest
Service (USFS) has announced
selection of Pioneer Forest
Products, a subsidiary of
Forest Associates, Inc, for the
largest forest stewardship
contract ever developed in the
agency's history.
05/18/2012
White House
to Fight Cuts in Biofuels
Spending in Proposed
National Defense
Bill
The
President's Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
released a Statement of
Administrative Policy on
Tuesday expressing
disappointment in the
proposed military budget
bill HR 4310.
05/18/2012
BHS Selected
by SITA UK to Build Four
MRFs in United
Kingdom
Oregon, United
States based company Bulk
Handling Systems (BHS) has
announced its selection by the
United Kingdom's (UK) waste
management giant SITA UK to
design, manufacture and install
the sorting systems for four
materials recovery facilities
(MRFs) in the UK.
05/17/2012
Diageo
Connects with Invest
Northern Ireland to Achieve
Zero Waste to
Landfill
The economic
development agency Invest
Northern Ireland (Invest NI)
has announced that
Scotland-based beverage
production company Diageo plc
has joined other companies
working with Invest NI's
"Industrial Symbiosis Service"
to reduce the amount of waste
the partners send to landfill
to near zero.
05/17/2012
California
ARB Schedules Public
Consultation on Cap &
Trade Investment
Plan
The California
Air Resources Board (ARB) has
posted a Meeting Notice for the
Public Consultation on
Investment of Cap and Trade
Auction Proceeds, to be held on
May 24, 2012 in Sacramento.
05/17/2012
CEC Posts
PIER Program Waste to
Product Report Fact Sheets
On-Line
The California
Energy Commission's (CEC)
Public Interest Energy Research
(PIER) program sponsors a wide
variety of research,
development, and demonstration
efforts, and periodically
updates its program page on the
CEC website with concise 2-page
new research project report
"Fact Sheets".
05/16/2012
Gemma Power
Systems Receives Notice to
Proceed on Texas Biopower
Plant
Gemma Power
Systems (GPS), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Maryland-based
Argan, Inc, has received Full
Notice to Proceed from the East
Texas Electric Cooperative
(ETEC) on its contract to build
Woodville Biomass, a 49.9
megawatt biomass fueled power
plant near Woodville, Texas.
05/16/2012
JBEI
Research Identifies Ionic
Liquid Resistant Microbe for
Cellulosic
Biofuels
Joint
BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
researchers have published on a
strain (SCF1) of the
sugar-fermenting microbe
Enterobacter
lignolyticus that can
withstand high concentrations
of ionic liquid solvents.
05/16/2012
GETH Tire
and Plastic Conversion Oil
Acceptable to Major Oil
Company
Green
EnviroTech Holdings Corp.
(GETH) has realized a major
step toward full
commercialization.
05/15/2012
JBI Secures
$10MM to Advance
Commercialization of
Plastic2Oil
Process
Canadian waste
plastic to oil specialist JBI,
Inc. has announced that
investments of $10 million have
been made in the company's
equity through private
placement.
05/15/2012
Neste
Produces NExBTL Biodiesel
from Fish Processing
Waste
Finland's
fuels and chemicals giant Neste
Oil has announced successful
conversion of fats derived from
fish processing wastes into its
premium-quality NExBTL
renewable diesel.
05/15/2012
UK
Parliament's Sustainable
Food Report includes Waste
Conversion
The
Environmental Audit Committee
of the United Kingdom's (UK)
Parliament has released its
Eleventh Report on Sustainable
Food, proposing a very holistic
approach to the problem of
providing sufficient healthy
food in a sustainable way to
the country and the world's
growing population.
05/14/2012
ENER-G
Combines Romanian Businesses
in New
Premises
United Kingdom
(UK) based multi-technologic
energy development company
ENER-G has announced its
expansion of waste conversion
services in the Romanian
market. 05/14/2012
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