Nature Energy steps up research of Benson plant site Submitted by admin on December 23, 2020 - 10:25am
By Reed Anfinson Swift County Monitor-News
Danish firm Nature Energy has picked up the pace on its exploration of developing a biogas operation that could create enough gas to heat between 11,000 and 12,000 homes. It would be constructed on the former Fibrominn, or Benson Power, site just west of Benson. At Monday noon’s Benson Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting, City Manager Rob Wolfington said he is now having frequent telephone conversations with the company and its representatives. There was a conference call with the Minnesota Pollution Control on the kick-off of the process to obtain a permit. It involved people in Denmark, Minneapolis, Colorado and Benson, with about 20 people on the call. “It went flawlessly and lasted two-and-a-half to three hours,” he said.
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By Capital News Service
The same pandemic that restricts travel and manufacturing is having a measurable impact on decreasing air pollution in parts of the Great Lakes region, experts say.
It is an impact that scientists can detect with sensors mounted on NASA satellites and that measure nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can exacerbate human respiratory problems such as asthma, cause acid rain and speed the creation of ozone and the pace of climate change.
It’s a tricky impact to measure, experts say. Weather, wildfires and other sources of pollution can mask the air quality effect of an economic lockdown. And clean air gains were reported before the pandemic. The Allegheny County Health Department in Pennsylvania reported that in 2019, nitrogen dioxide levels in Pittsburgh had dropped every year since 1999.