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WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN

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Post 47 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Last week’s post looked at a description from 9.17.15 of the waste-importation plan. Earlier, on March 16, 2015, Whitewater’s…

Text of the 9.17.15 Remarks on Waste Importation

Post 45 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. in this post, I will include the transcribed text of remarks that Whitewater’s city manager made on 9.17.15 about…

Local Isn’t Local 

Post 44 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Last week I posted a video explanation from Whitewater City Manager Cameron Clapper about a digester-energy project. At the…

The 9.17.15 Remarks on Waste Importation

Official Remarks of 9.17.15 on Waste Importation from John Adams on Vimeo. Post 43 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Embedded above is a clip of a…

Boo! Scariest Things in Whitewater, 2015

Here’s the ninth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater for 2015. The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 editions are available for comparison. The list runs in reverse order, from mildly frightening to truly scary. 10. The Coming Ferret Invasion. Alternative title: The Unprepared Will Be Doomed.  Earlier this year,…

The Not-So-Technical-After-All Memo

Post 42 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. The Donohue firm describes its memoranda about a wastewater upgrade as technical memoranda. Waste importation is described in Technical…

Option(s)

Post 41 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Sometimes a presentation of options is genuine; other times one option is merely a straw proposal to make a…

What Stops a Trane?

Post 40 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. For months, Whitewater’s municipal government discussed projects that Trane, an outside vendor, would perform.  These projects included processing biosolids…

The Pilot Program

Post 39 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. (Every question in this series has a unique number, assigned chronologically based on when it was asked. All the…

The December 2014 Presentation
(Part 3)

Post 38 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. In this post, I’ll consider a portion of the public comments at the 12.16.14 meeting, following earlier posts about…

The December 2014 Presentation
(Part 2)

Post 37 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. In this post, I’ll consider only a portion of the public comments at the 12.16.14 meeting. There are two…

The December 2014 Presentation
(Part 1)

Post 36 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. In this post, I’ll consider the Donohue firm’s December 2014 public presentation to Whitewater on a wastewater upgrade. The…

The Donohue Firm’s Second Public Presentation of 7.15.14

Post 35 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. In this post, I’ll consider the Donohue firm’s second public presentation to Whitewater on a wastewater upgrade. Donohue Firm’s…