Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Facility

CartLegger: 30th Sep 2008 - 15:34 GMT

Peter: I hate to disagree with you, but a quick look at your sources points out a flaw in your conclusion.

Scorecard, a generally dependable site for a wide range of release, is way off here.

They are listing Brooklyn Co-Gen--the Navy Yard plant--at the top, with a whopping 52lbs of emissions! Now, I don't know what TRI (Toxic Release inventory) chemicals they are including in this catch all category, but its hardly the whole picture.

If you look on the EPA's own handy Google Earth Tool www.epa.gov/air/emissions/where.htm you'll see that most powerplants in NYC measure there emissions in the hundreds of tons. And among powerplants, there are lots out there dirtier than Brooklyn Co-Gen. Many of those in Kings County are not even listed on the Scorecard site.

Finally, if you look at those others power plants, you'll see they greatly outrank Brooklyn Co-Gen, not only Nitrogen Oxide--which they put out a lot of there--but in Sulfur Dioxide, and particulates. thats the makings of acid rain. That is what is not coming out of Brooklyn Co-Gen.

So yes, the PR crap from them is a bit infuriating. But that does not mean that critics are always right. And you are wrong on many, many, levels here.

And yes, in the interest of disclosure, I work for the Navy Yard.
I am doing my job here trying to clear the air--just like Brooklyn Co-Gen!

But emissions are usually

Peter: 30th Sep 2008 - 15:58 GMT

heh, i had a feeling that if i posted this, you might explain what was up, and voila :) thanks!

Cortland: 9th Sep 2009 - 04:55 GMT

52 THOUSAND is the number I see this year.