A British corporation named Fibrowatt Ltd. has built three poultry waste incinerators in the UK. They are now planning to build many more, mostly in the U.S. Their first U.S. target was Benson, Minnesota, where they built the largest "biomass" incinerator in the country - a 50 Megawatt plant that burns 500,000 tons of turkey litter a year, plus 100,000-200,000 tons a crops and/or agricultural wastes.

Fibrowatt's air emissions have been the subject of controversy. The permit granted for their Fibrominn project allows them to be Minnesota's largest single source of arsenic pollution, their largest source of sulfuric acid air emissions, their 2nd largest source of hydrochloric acid air emissions, and a significant new source of dioxin pollution. For several pollutants, Fibrowatt's incinerators would be dirtier than newly-built coal power plants (which we also vigorously oppose).

Poultry waste is NOT a clean fuel. Biomass is NOT "green" energy.

Poultry litter consists of about half chicken or turkey manure and half bedding (wood shavings and sawdust). Fibrowatt's incinerator projects seek to burn about 75% poultry litter plus about 25% "vegetative biomass," which could be anything from crops grown specifically to be burned to crop residue from traditional agriculture to otherwise "non-valuable" wood cut from logging operations in forests.

There are other companies besides Fibrowatt seeking to build poultry and other animal waste incinerators. However, Fibrowatt is the big player, seeking to build the largest of them - and the only one in the U.S. seeking to make electricity to be sold as "green" energy to gullible consumers.

Fibrowatt tends to come up with new names for each of their projects. Below is a list of existing and proposed poultry litter incinerators followed by a map of Fibrowatt's U.S. target states. They are targeting communities where there is a concentration of poultry waste production from large poultry agribusiness. They aim to truck in poultry waste from a 50 mile radius, sometimes going as far as 90 miles to obtain their "fuel."

Air Emissions Data for three of the Fibrowatt poultry waste incinerators in the UK (Eye, Glanford and Thetford plants) can be found compiled here: Excel format / PDF format for select pollutants. This data was supplied by the Fibrowatt plants to the UK environmental agency.

Poultry waste incinerators targeting your community? Contact us for help: Energy Justice Network Mike Ewall 215-743-4884 catalyst@actionpa.org

Fibrowatt can be stopped!:

• In 2005, after years of opposition, the Fibroned project in the Netherlands was stopped when the project's permit was rejected for the second time.
• In 2002, opposition to Fibrowatt's proposed "Fibromiss" incinerator in Magee, MS caused the company to leave town and try locating elsewhere in the county (Mendenhall, MS), where they have been opposed by local residents.
• Green Delaware, a grassroots environmental group in Delaware state has led the effort to ban incineration statewide in 2000, forcing Fibrowatt and other poultry waste incinerator promoters to move their plans outside of the state.
• Carl Strickler, a key player in Fibrowatt's U.S. operation (and Vice-President of the Fibrominn project) was defeated in 1998 when his previous company (Reading Energy) was kicked out of Morrisville, Pennsylvania - a small community outside of Philadelphia - when they tried to build a wood waste incinerator there in 1997.

Corporation	Local Name	City/County	State	Country	Megawatts	Capacity/Fuel (tpy = tons/year)
Existing
EPR/Fibrowatt	Fibropower	Eye	Suffolk	UK	12.7	150,000 tpy poultry litter; See emissions data
EPR/Fibrowatt	Fibrogen - Glanford Power Station	Flixborough	North Lincolnshire	UK	13.5	Chicken Litter & Meat/Bone Meal; See emissions data
EPR/Fibrowatt	FibroThetford	Thetford	Norfolk	UK	38.5	450,000 tpy chicken litter / other biomass; See emissions data
Energy Power Resources Ltd.	Westfield Power Station	Cardenden, Fife	Scotland	UK	10	110,000 tpy chicken litter; See emissions data
Fibrowatt	FibroMinn	Benson (Swift County)	Minnesota	USA	50	Went online June 2007 500,000 tpy turkey litter plus 100-200,000 tpy alfalfa; See Fibrominn permits here (scroll down to Fibrominn); See initial stack tests: 7/4/2007 and 7/6/2007. Pictures available here.
Earth Resources Inc.	Plant Carl	near Carnesville (Franklin County)	Georgia	USA	20	Going online mid-1007. Using fluidized bed boiler. See USDA report for details.
Defeated Proposals
EPR/Fibrowatt & Bio-One	Fibroned	Apeldoorn		The Netherlands	30	385,000 tpy poultry litter
Proposed
Blair Fox Generation		Muchea (Shire of Chittering)	Western Australia	Australia	approx. 11	108,000 tpy poultry litter
Darwalla Group		Mt Cotton (near Brisbane in Redland Shire)	Queensland	Australia	5	60,000 tons per year
Joseph Mitchells (Letham) Ltd.		Letham		Scotland		13,000 tons/year of poultry slaughtering byproducts to be burned in pyrolysis/gasification-style incinerator. Permits granted in 2007.
Rose Energy		near Glenavy, Antrim County		Northern Ireland	30	250,000 tons/year of chicken litter (and bone meal residue) to be burned in fluidized bed combustor; Opposition group website: Rose Tinted Energy
Fibrowatt		Monaghan, Emyvale		Ireland
Energy Power Resources Ltd.	DEPR Netherlands	Moerdijk		The Netherlands	30	358,000 tonnes / yr chicken litter and 20,000 tonnes / yr feathers
Energy Power Resources Ltd.	Corby Mixed Biofuel Plant	Corby	Northamptonshire	UK	36	34,000 tonnes / yr chicken litter & 168,000 tonnes / yr waste straw
Fibrowatt		Wilkes, Surry (or possibly Alexander) Counties	North Carolina	USA
Fibrowatt		Sampson or Duplin County	North Carolina	USA
Fibrowatt		Stanly, Moore, Montgomery (or possibly Richmond or Union) Counties	North Carolina	USA
Fibrowatt			Arkansas	USA
LandStudies, Inc. & Five Winds International		Duncannon Borough, Perry County	Pennsylvania	USA	10	2007 Article about these consultants scoping out poultry waste incinerator possibility. Fibrowatt's technology being considered.
Allen's Hatchery & JCR Enterprises		Linkwood (Dorchester County)	Maryland	USA		12,000 tpy poultry litter; burner to be built by rem Engineering
Fibrowatt	FibroShore	Eastern Shore, MD	Maryland	USA	38.5	200-300,000 tpy chicken litter plus 100,000 tpy of forestry residues
Fibrowatt	FibroMiss	Mendenhall (Simpson County)	Mississippi	USA	40	200-300,000 tpy chicken litter plus 100-200,000 tpy forest residue / crop waste
West Michigan Co-Gen		Ottawa County	Michigan	USA	4.3	65,000 tpy turkey litter & other animal wastes (cattle and chickens)
Barlow Projects	Willmar Biomass Power Plant	Willmar (Kandiyohi County)	Minnesota	USA	18-21	266-300 tpd turkey litter
Sites Being Considered
Fibrowatt				Belgium
Fibrowatt				France
Fibrowatt				Germany
Fibrowatt				Italy
Fibrowatt				Japan
Fibrowatt				Portugal
Fibrowatt				Spain
Fibrowatt			Georgia	USA
Fibrowatt			Alabama	USA
Fibrowatt			Texas	USA
Fibrowatt			Wisconsin	USA
Fibrowatt			Iowa	USA
Fibrowatt			Oklahoma	USA

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