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Video Proof: Denton natural gas power plant will make air quality worse

June 7, 2016 By TXsharon

Picture is of the Pearsall Energy Center

Denton Natural Gas Power Plant

“Also, the plants will not make air quality worse. These are pathetic, blatant lies aimed at getting people elected who have no idea what they are doing.” Jim Maynard, as posted on Facebook

I am certified by ITC to operate a FLIR camera and interpret FLIR video. My instructor also certifies Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) FLIR camera operators and industry operators. Using a FLIR GF320 camera, I took video on June 6, 2016, of the South Texas Electric Cooperative Inc. Pearsall Energy Center which consists of 12 Wartsila 18v50sg engines. These are the same engines and same number of engines Denton Municipal Electric wants to build in Denton.

FLIR GF320 camera makes visible the invisible emissions.

These numbers are the “Maximum Annual Emission Rates” from the air permit applications of the two plants: the Denton Energy Center and the Green Valley Energy Center
ALL NUMBERS ARE IN TONS PER YEAR.

DENTON ENERGY CENTER (airport location):

AIR POLLUTANTS (NOx, CO, PM2.5/10, VOC, SO2) : 246.37 TPY
CO2e emissions: 345,056 TPY

GREEN VALLEY ENERGY CENTER:

AIR POLLUTANTS: 256.56 TPY
CO2e emissions: 366,757 TPY

GRAND TOTALS FOR TWO PLANTS:
air pollutants: 502.93 TPY
CO2e: 711,813 TPY

This report states that in 2014 new fracking wells released 5.3 billion pounds of methane. That is the equivalent to the emissions from 22 new coal-fired plants.

Please read:  The Denton Power Plant Shell Game to learn more about how the city is playing a shell game regarding the Denton natural gas power plant emissions

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

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Comments

  1. Larry says

    June 7, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Thanks for getting this video out there Sharon

  2. Ed says

    June 7, 2016 at 11:00 am

    These plants are neither economically nor environmentally beneficial. They will be the debt-ridden Gibbons Creek coal-fired plants of the 21st century. Only this time the pollution will literally be in our backyards.

  3. Meamous says

    June 7, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    In addition to large amounts of toxins emitted by such a source which burns “natural gas” these plants emit very large amounts of CO2 from short stacks. This CO2 is much heavier than air and can and will gather in low places (depending on weather conditions), thus, lowering the oxygen (O2) in the environmental air. This low oxygen can contribute to many effects on humans which are all detrimental–it can be like living in the mountains and then when the wind changes, your’re very quickly taken to sea level conditons–bad in all aspects.

  4. Meamous says

    June 7, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    In my post above I forgot to mention that the TCEQ does not regulate or control the amount of CO2 or O2 in our environmental air!!

  5. Micah Suarez says

    August 10, 2016 at 2:40 am

    Hi Sharon!! Thanks for this informative article !! It really helped me in my research. I am also an advocate of green energy.
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