Viewing Grant Proposal: De Saegher Energy_Renewable Fuel Production Facility (RNG)
DSE and SKS are building a renewable fuel production facility (“SKS-EBR” or the “Project”) that will convert dairy manure from the E.B. Ridge dairy located near Elsie, MI (the “EBR Dairy”) into renewable natural gas (RNG). SKS-EBR is expected to generate 110,000 MMBtu of RNG annually and cost $29.3 million. The Project will be located adjacent to the existing DSE RNG production facility near Middleton, MI, allowing it to leverage existing interconnection infrastructure.
Comments
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3/20/2024 6:35:35 PM |
I strongly oppose this proposal and urge the MPSC not to award it a RE-EIED grant.
Please direct this funding to proposals that are focused on renewable energy, efficiency, battery storage, and electrification instead of biomethane or so-called “renewable natural gas.”
Combusting gas in our buildings emits nitrous oxide, fine particulate matter, and other pollutants which can have serious public health concerns. For example, a recent study found more than 12% of current childhood asthma across the country is attributed to pollution from gas stoves. Public health impacts need to be taken into consideration, especially given the context that renewable energy doesn’t create indoor air emissions, while efficiency, battery storage, and electrification projects can directly mitigate them.
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4/8/2024 3:55:15 PM |
These funds should be awarded to projects that are seeking to make significant decreases in GHG emissions through renewable energy, efficiency, battery storage, and electric technologies.
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4/12/2024 2:28:59 PM |
Oxfam is a global organization that fights poverty and inequality. On behalf of our over 18,000 supporters in Michigan, we strongly oppose this proposal and urge the MPSC not to award it a RE-EIED grant.
This project fails to address the negative environmental and public health impacts on fence-line communities and the broader threat of water pollution from increasing production/demand for RNG-generating waste streams. The full life cycle of industrial biodigesters often don’t account for the high levels of nitrous oxide and methane emitted by the digestate (the physical remnants of the digestion process) after it is applied to farmland. When combined with leakage rates and factoring in other externalized environmental and public health impacts, digesters' overall benefits are negligible and not deserving of these limited grant funds. Projects like this should not be a priority over true renewable energy and electrification projects.
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4/12/2024 3:21:31 PM |
SRAP submits comments and exhibits in OPPOSITION to the proposal via the links below (and the documents were emailed to LARA on April 12, 2024)
Comments - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TN2XAakgryIVU8Og02aB0TU5T3tE16FB/view?usp=drive_link
Exhibits 1, 2, and 3 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10IEjQpgEjWzDB0kG3NgshUClRZvePYHp/view?usp=drive_link
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