Comments on: MORE PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED ~ Proposed ‘Science Facility’ in the Morgantown Industrial Park https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2022/01/22/more-problems-identified-proposed-%e2%80%98science-facility%e2%80%99-in-the-morgantown-industrial-park/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kathryn Madison https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2022/01/22/more-problems-identified-proposed-%e2%80%98science-facility%e2%80%99-in-the-morgantown-industrial-park/#comment-418866 Kathryn Madison Tue, 25 Jan 2022 06:43:04 +0000 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=38737#comment-418866 <strong>"Catching up on newspapers. From Kathryn Madison 1/22/22</strong> Northeast Natural Energy posted a legal ad in Wednesday's Dominion Post that they are applying for a new air permit for a natural gas dehydration unit at the Morgantown Industrial Park. Application # 061-00265 is for an "after the fact" construction permit for a dehydrator located at what appears to be the "Science well" site, less than 500 feet from the MEP site. If I am reading that permit correctly (never a sure bet, as these are deliberately obscure), the site has been operating since 2012 without a permit. The application states that the Potential To Emit includes 8.56 Tons Per Year (TPY) of VOCs including 7.87 TPY of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). The application discusses "Aggregation" in Section 1.4, (Page 10) and states that NNE does not operate any other facilities within one-quarter mile, therefore this should be considered a single surface site facility. (It appears they want to retain the fiction that they are separate from Marion Energy Partners, even though the application was signed by the same guy, Brett Loflin, See Page 15.) If we add the HAPs from this site to the 14.2 TPY at MEP, it still would not exceed the 25 TPY to be considered a major source, but it gets them almost 90 % of the way there. Any other source of HAPs would almost certainly exceed the threshold and require additional analysis and controls. Jim Kotcon, WV Sierra Club “Catching up on newspapers. From Kathryn Madison 1/22/22

Northeast Natural Energy posted a legal ad in Wednesday’s Dominion Post that they are applying for a new air permit for a natural gas dehydration unit at the Morgantown Industrial Park.

Application # 061-00265 is for an “after the fact” construction permit for a dehydrator located at what appears to be the “Science well” site, less than 500 feet from the MEP site. If I am reading that permit correctly (never a sure bet, as these are deliberately obscure), the site has been operating since 2012 without a permit.

The application states that the Potential To Emit includes 8.56 Tons Per Year (TPY) of VOCs including 7.87 TPY of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs).

The application discusses “Aggregation” in Section 1.4, (Page 10) and states that NNE does not operate any other facilities within one-quarter mile, therefore this should be considered a single surface site facility. (It appears they want to retain the fiction that they are separate from Marion Energy Partners, even though the application was signed by the same guy, Brett Loflin, See Page 15.)

If we add the HAPs from this site to the 14.2 TPY at MEP, it still would not exceed the 25 TPY to be considered a major source, but it gets them almost 90 % of the way there. Any other source of HAPs would almost certainly exceed the threshold and require additional analysis and controls.

Jim Kotcon, WV Sierra Club

]]>