Trash Plant Closing

[TURobY]

quote:Originally posted by perspicuity85

What's up with the general lack of recyling activity in Tulsa anyway?  Is there still no curbside recycling pick-up?  If so, why not?

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/Environment/Recycling/CurbsideService.asp

[bluelake]

quote:Originally posted by Chris

What am I looking at patric?

Blackfox  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by patric

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

There are several closed plants still in existence. Many are "mothballed" with the hopes of refiring or selling it.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=United+States&ie=UTF8&ll=36.115623,-95.549877&spn=0.016571,0.029097&z=15&om=1

That one wasn't built, much less torn down.

[Conan71]

The boiler units are new enough in terms of water tube boilers that someone could come in, convert them to gas or bio-fuel burners, or a different type of bio-mass reactor and set up a small co-gen plant.  There might well be other purposes for the place yet.

As far as knocking it down, won't happen until the pigeons have laid claim to it for the next 20 years and everything has rusted to the ground assuming they don't find another use.

[patric]

Judge Orders Landfill To Close
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A Tulsa County judge denies a request to keep a north Tulsa landfill in operation. According to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, District Judge Daniel Owens ruled that a permanent injunction calling for the closure of North Tulsa Sanitary Landfill will remain in full effect.

In July, Owens ordered the landfill to cease all operations and close. Attorneys for the landfill asked Owens for a modification of the July order and to allow the facility to stay open.

But Owens denied the request.

DEQ officials say the landfill hadn't been in compliance for several years.

The agency and the landfill entered a legally binding agreement that required the facility to submit an approvable plan to DEQ for construction of a new cell for waste disposal by August 28th, 2006.

That deadline was missed. Under the consent order, the penalty for failure to meet the deadline was to immediately shut down the landfill.

[AMP]

First time I drove past these giant windmills in southwestern Oklahoma was last summer while I was doing come consulting work in that area.

Not as cool as the ones on the mountains in California, but quite a site to see on the plains.  Reminds me of an illustration from a Tom Swift book.

http://www.horizonwind.com/projects/whatweredoing/bluecanyon.aspx