Stop the City of Alameda's Toxic Plan!

What you can do to stop the building of this trash burner in your community - Call to protest:

Alameda Power & Telecom
(510) 748 3901

Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker
(510) 272 6693

Join the coalition: Tri-City Coalition for Alternatives to Incineration (Tri-City CAIN)

Don't Let a New Trash Burner be Built!

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Alameda, Oakland & San Leandro Residents!

• Alameda Power & Telecom (APT) is considering building a garbage plant in San Leandro, Oakland or Alameda using “gasification” or “pyrolysis.” These are incinerator-like technologies that would heat trash and create gas that would be burned to create electricity for the City of Alameda.
• The facility would have toxic releases including metals and dioxin, one of the deadliest chemicals known to science. For example, Brightstar Environmental, one of the companies promoted as an example by APT’s consultants, admits on its website that its gasification plant in Australia emitted dioxin and mercury. Brightstar’s facility had delays, shutdowns, and technical glitches, was cited for exceeding limits for arsenic and sulphur trioxide and recently has permanently shutdown.
• Contrary to claims by Alameda Power and Telecom that the study is just preliminary, APT issued a Request for Qualifications on June 26, 2003 to industry that stated: "The objective is to contract for an MSW pyrolysis/gasification facility during the first half of 2004 if a suitable technology and project developer are competitive.” 13 companies responded, and APT requested additional information from five companies.
• Even small amounts of dioxin can cause cancer, birth defects, hormonal changes, diabetes, developmental, and immune problems. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, and health effects include loss of memory, delayed development functions, seizures, and impacts on the heart, kidney and lung.
• Contrary to the claims of City officials, garbage is not a renewable energy source. Instead of gasification, safer alternatives like wind and solar energy should be used. Alameda should work towards zero waste through prevention, composting, and recycling. East Bay residents breathed easier when the IES incinerators in Oakland closed! We don’t need or want another waste-burning plant in our community!