Poolbeg Incinerator Could Cost 100,000 man-years of life it its first 15 years

An Incinerator at Poolbeg could
cost 100,000 man-years of life
it its first 15 years (a).

An incinerator can be modelled as a deadly particles generator.

A 70 page PDF report from a credible medical society on the reduced life expectancy caused by incineration and deadly particles(b) is here so you make your own judgments.

Pollution in east Dublin already exceeds the compromised EU standards and is significantly above the more protective US air quality standards. The Bord Pleanala Inspector's report noted the compromised level of air pollution in Poolbeg is already at or above the EU norms but his actions will have been dictated by the politically appointed directors at Bord Pleanala.

The submission to the EPA Oral Hearing by a member of the St Patrick's rowing club in Ringsend illustrates concerns on cancer, ill health and premature deaths in a polluted environment. DCC refuses to run a Baseline Health Study for the area and cynically washes its hands by referring all such requests to the less than inspiring Health Service Executive (where nobody washes hands). The EPA Oral Hearing apparently accepted this Big Lie manouver.

The EPA's directors are political appointees of Fianna Fail - at the EPA it would appear the gamekeepers have turned into poachers, and vice versa. Is the politically dominated EPA any more credible than the Developer's Anglo-Irish Bank, the Dublin Developer's Autocracy (DDDA) or the Developer's Irish Financial Regulator?

In addition to invisible microscopic particles an incinerator in Dublin Bay would pump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of pollution into the air over Dublin each year. The total volume of waste is actually increased by waste-to-toxins incineration and is not reduced as claimed by industry Big Lies. For example, each tonne of waste generates an additional tonne of CO2. This CO2 is pumped up the chimney where it circles the world.

Big Lie Caution: Dublin City Council has spent €19,000,000 to promote its cynical one-sided case for an Incinerator at Poolbeg. DCC has used multiple Big Lies, including the Big Lie of selective witholding of data, it seems. For instance, DCC has apparently not publicly costed nor quantified the serious health impacts in terms of compromised health and premature deaths - apart from spin such as 'you can not prove that'. This is the Tobacco Industry Big Lie in practice.

The Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (CHASE) has other useful information. The Green-Fianna-Fail government has penalised Corks' citizens by presenting CHASE with a legal bill of €50,000. Contrast this to the €19,000,000 of your money given to the public service patriots in developer-lead Dublin City Council. George Bush would say the DCC fokes are Fair & Balanced.

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June 2008 Estimates by British Society for Ecological Medicine using World Health Organisation Air Quality Guidelines
a) Based on a very conservative estimate of the level of increase that would be expected around large incinerators in a population of 250,000.

There is a reduction of life expectancy of 1.1 years for each 10μg per cubic metre increase in PM2.5 particulates

The US National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM 2.5 particulates was introduced into the USA in 1997 with a mean annual limit of 15μg per cubic metre. This had measurable health benefits.

b) Deadly particles - see pages 15-16.

Incinerator and IGB Spin by Paid-For Consultant

What will N.Brennan do about Arup's cross-directorship with the Developers Autocracy?

A cosmetic resignation from DDDA or Ulster Bank does not suffice to disable the perception of an old-boy network nor the damage to international perceptions.

• N. O’Sullivan is a director of Arup.
• N. O’Sullivan is a director of the DDDA.
• Arup claims DDDA's glass bottle site is fit for humans.

How will N.Brennan educate the taxpayers about perceptions of DDDA credibiity or of Arup's "independence" now Arup is paid to pronounce on pollution at speculators' sites in Poolbeg?


Paid-for Arup Spin on €450 Million Ringsend Glass Bottle Site
Outstanding spin from Arup seems to claim the Ringsend Glass Bottle site lands are in “a satisfactory state” and that space created under(!) car-parking spaces and other services would “create a wide and ventilated physical barrier between polluted lands and the future habitable spaces of the new development“.

Unpaid Expert Opinion
Former EPA expert Malcolm Doak warned that 30 per cent methane gas levels exist on the lands and that “a significant gas risk still remains on-site”.

Paid-for Arup Spin on €350 Million Poolbeg Incinerator
Arup said the environmental impact statement found the Poolbeg waste-to-toxins incinerator would not significantly impact the environment and "no residual negative impacts are anticipated" from the construction or operation of the plant.

Unpaid Expert Opinion
Prof Staines, a medical doctor and academic, said it was "at best careless, and more realistically reckless, to proceed with a major development without considering methods of minimising harm and maximising benefits to the local community" and said the execution of a Health Impact Statement on such projects was common practice internationally.

In relation to the environmental impact statement, undertaken by Arup Consulting Engineers on behalf of the council, Prof Staines claimed that "in no case is there any serious consideration of the actual impacts of the estimated emissions on people in the local community or on human health".

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DDDDA has been a poster boy for rampant multi-dimensional conflicts-of-interest. Ex: Seanie and Lar at the Glass Bottle site.

DDDA's newest chairman, N.Brennan, is spun as a governance expert by advertising dependent newspapers. N.Brennan was appointed by Mr J Gormley in a closed-door recruitment process. N.Brennan was a director for Ulster bank when it financed Zoe Developments large Fabrizia site on Sandymount Strand (Zoe now has a negative net value of -€900,000,000, plus or minus an acre of occupied public footpath).

How can Arup not anticipate any negative impacts given operator Covanta's curious record?

The Seanie & Lar culture at DDDA-Anglo was the catalyst for the €490,000,000,000 banker bailout and the proving ground for NAMA's €90,000,000,000 developer bailout. Is there any pattern which shows the rampant multi-dimensional conflicts of interest at the €450,000,000 Glass Bottle site will not be repeated at NAMA?

• Both NAMA and DDDA combine closed-door autocratic control over planning permits.
• Both NAMA and DDDA have the same executive sponsors - the Galway Tent cartel.
• NAMA adds closed-door political distortion of property markets for the next 30 years (in violation of core EU Competition Principles).

See also: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0801/1224251858397.html

Poolbeg Incinerator Run by New Jersey's Culture?

Is Covanta influenced by New Jersey's Culture? Will the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator be run using New Jersey's best?

The arrests come in a state that is no stranger to political corruption. The former mayors of Newark, Paterson and Camden, to name but a few, have or are serving time in prison. Wayne Bryant, a former state senator, is due to be sentenced for fraud and bribery on Friday. Until recently, “double-dipping”, holding two elected positions, was the norm.

• Handing out public-sector contracts to political donors, “pay to play”, is common practice.
• Cronyism is practically accepted.
• Mob ties are not unusual [blog-edit: especially in waste management and construction].

- The Economist, Jul 24th 2009, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

New Jersey is not Sweden. Covanta is HQ'ed in New Jersey. Which quite possibly has no influence whatsoever on the corporate culture, apart from sharp suits and haircuts. Covanta is not a gonzo outfit. As far as is known Covanta is a mighty fine corporate citizen. Except perhaps for Dioxins violations reported for all of its New Jersey waste incinerators and about 6,000 violations at Ogden and conflicts with employees and other legal concerns in Florida and a recent 'bankruptcy' issue and the odd explosion forcing people to run indoors.

Like Wall Street bankers also based in New Jersey, Covanta's CEO Tony Orlando is heavily bonus driven with recent official compensation of about $3 million.

US websites list the legal political donations made by Covanta staff to local politicians. In 2008 the Irish lawyer for the Poobeg Incinerator Promoters, 'Willem Schipkijk', had a legal fundraiser in his Dalkey house for at least one American Presidential candidate (Obama) in Dublin. Curious?

DCC's choice of operator for the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator is a Covanta entity legalised in the secret banking haven of Luxembourg. Curious?

In Ireland of course the secret contract DCC made with Covanta was not influenced by any form of "pay to play" nor cronyism nor the total dismissal of scientific facts and the public's interest in favour of secret political diktats. The secret contract may involve a "put or pay" contract which will burden the bankrupted taxpayers who are not killed prematurely by incinerator nanoparticles (PM0.1).

Bertie 'Won It On De Horses' Ahern can confirm this, even if it's actually true. So will the public servants now retiring on the world's highest pensions. These are honest men.

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http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14112480

Poolbeg Borrowings & Green Party "Untruths"

• Covanta seems to confirm the Green Party was telling totally innocent untruths before the June elections about funding for the waste-to-toxins incinerator.

The Green Untruth of may 2009 was immediately corrected by the Wall Street Journal.

Now in July 2009:

• Covanta confirms it has borrowed a sum of money - the $389 million is equal to the estimated amount needed for the Poolbeg waste-to-toxins factory. A secret contract with the sharp business men at DCC no doubt makes it easy to borrow money in a depression- by transferring the big risks to Irish taxpayers.
  
• Covanta's net debt is said to be $1.7 billion.
• Liabilities for premature deaths are not mentioned.

Carefully worded Covanta press release clipping [22.07.2009]:

Our balance sheet was significantly strengthened by the $460 million convertible note financing completed during the quarter.

We added approximately $389 million to our unrestricted cash, after giving effect to underwriting discounts, offering expenses, proceeds from the issuance of warrants and the purchase of the convertible note hedge. The entire $300 million of our revolving credit facility continues to be available.

In the quarter, we paid down $72 million of debt, bringing our net debt to $1.7 billion (total debt less cash and restricted funds set aside explicitly for project debt principal repayment).

http://www.only2press.com/archives/10869

Poolbeg Incinerator "Rogue Employer"

The USA's National Labor Relations Board this week issued a comprehensive complaint charging Covanta Energy Corp. and all of its U.S. subsidiaries with violating federal labor law.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/07/01/covanta-complaint-shows-need-for-employee-free-choice-act/


AFL-CIO Local 369 President Gary Sullivan:

The board’s action confirms our first-hand experience that Covanta is a rogue employer with no respect for the rights of its employees.

Dublin City Council has a secret deal with Covanta to run the proposed Poolbeg Waste-to-Toxins incinerator. Possibly to dodge US courts the deal is with an offshore Covanta outfit - a special purpose entity firewalled in secretive Luxembourg (guess why).


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The USA's National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.

The Purple & The Pinstripe.

The Purple & The Pinstripe.

BANANA REPUBLIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_HSCmnFTA

The purple and the pinstripe
Mutely shake their heads

A silence shrieking volumes
A violence worse than they condemn

Stab you in the back yeah
Laughing in your face

Glad to see the place again
It's a pity nothing's changed
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Incinerators Nanoparticles are safe. Trust Us.

Tiny particles from incinerators will reduce your life by up to two years.

Nobody understands the science. That's why we have Fianna Fail.

You can trust your clever politicians to protect you by directing their political appointees, dressed up as scientists, at EPA, Bord Pleanala, and elsewhere.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0610/1224248531633.html

Expert challenges risk study for incinerator

LOUISE ROSEINGRAVE

Wed, Jun 10, 2009

TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS of nano-particles such as those produced from an incinerator stack can be responsible for exacerbating human health problems including asthma, bronchitis and heart disease, according to a scientific expert who gave evidence on behalf of objectors at a public hearing yesterday.

Prof C Vyvyan Howard described Indaver Ireland’s risk assessment of possible health problems associated with a proposed toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork as “simplistic” and “fundamentally flawed”.

His claims were disputed by Indaver Ireland. Prof Howard, who is in charge of of bioimaging at the University of Ulster, has written and spoken in a variety of forums to draw attention to the threat posed by pollutants to developing foetuses and infants.

Speaking on behalf of anti-incinerator campaign group Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment at a hearing on the proposed incinerator yesterday, Prof Howard, described as a medically qualified toxico-pathologist, claimed there were airborne particles for which there was no known safe level, and that Indaver Ireland’s risk assessment did not cover the emittance of such particles. “The risk assessment in relation to particles that has been undertaken by Indaver is rather simplistic and appears to ignore the very significant contribution made to particulate burdens made by sulphur dioxide and especially nitrous oxide emissions.”

Prof Howard said while effects of individual toxins were known, the effects of multiple toxins in the air was unknown, and research into such effects was difficult.

Indaver Ireland’s risk assessment is based on the effects of individual toxins as per Environmental Protection Agency air quality standards.

“This approach is fundamentally flawed for those emissions like particles, for which no safe level can be demonstrated,” Prof Howard said.

Air pollution levels well within legal limits were killing people, he claimed, “especially older people and those with chronic heart and lung ailments”. Children and foetuses were particularly at risk from airborne pollutant particles, as their immune system and lungs were not fully developed, he said.

“There can be no doubt that children and even the foetus are particularly vulnerable to particle air pollutants, while this has been largely overlooked in setting current standards and controls,” he said.

He cited a review by scientists Joachim Heinrich and Remy Slama showing fine particle pollutants had been associated with infant mortality, impaired lung function and, less consistently, with sudden infant death syndrome.

In his report, Prof Howard claimed Indaver had “completely omitted any consideration of secondary particles and their impacts from their assessments”, which he said can account for a major fraction of the particles emitted by incinerators, despite filtration.

It was claimed that a high proportion of ultra-fine particles emitted through the incineration process evaded filtration systems.

“The subsequent direct uptake of these respirable particles and the ready transfer from the lungs into the bloodstream may be part of the reason that traditional toxicology is at a loss to explain the level of impacts for such apparently low exposures,” he said.

An Indaver Ireland spokesman said Prof Howard’s opinion was “at odds” with views of the World Health Organisation, EU and EPA. “Dioxins are all around us every day. Traffic, home heating and agriculture are among the main dioxin contributors. WHO and EU set safe level limits for dioxin emissions, and expert analysis has shown that the proposed development will have a minuscule effect,” the spokesman said.

The hearing is expected to continue until the end of next week.

© 2009 The Irish Times

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Incinerator firm hopes to raise $400 million bond

The US firm leading the consortium to build an incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin is attempting to raise $400 million from bond investors to part-finance the project.

Covanta, a US-quoted energy firm, is heading Dublin Waste to Energy Ltd, which has been awarded the contract to build and operate the incinerator. The consortium recently assured Dublin City Council that all funding was in place for the project.

However, Covanta has struggled to secure finance for phase one of the project, and is now seeking to raise $400 million through ‘‘cash-convertible senior notes’’. It is proposing to pay investors a return of 6.5 per cent a year on their capital. [Should read 3.25% p.a. ??]

In documents filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, Covanta said the net proceeds of the bond issue would be used for working capital, including ‘‘funding a portion of the construction cost for a 1,700 metric energy-from waste facility in Dublin’’.

It is understood that Covanta had tried to raise bank debt, but no institution was willing to act as the primary banker to the Poolbeg project, due to the lack of liquidity on the international credit markets.

However, a number of lenders have informed the consortium that they may consider part-financing latter aspects of the project. The planned incinerator is a central element of the country’s waste management strategy. If completed as planned, it will burn 600,000 tonnes of waste a year, creating electricity for 50, 000 homes and hot water heating for a further 60,000 households. However, there has been opposition both to the Poolbeg project, and to incineration in general in Ireland, with a number of projects beset by delays.

Last week, John Gormley, the Green Party Minister for the Environment, is sued a circular which stated that he would introduce a levy to be borne by companies incinerating waste and anybody selling waste for incineration.

Gormley has also instructed the director general of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),Dr Mary Kelly, and all council managers nationwide, that they must in future ‘‘refrain from exercising their powers in such a way as to direct waste to landfill or incineration’’.

Gormley told the EPA and the council heads that he was initiating a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), instructing them that government policy had taken decisive steps to encourage recycling and discourage incineration.

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=42318-qqqx=1.asp

Incinerator firm hopes to raise $400 million bond

Incinerator firm hopes to raise $400 million bond
Sunday, June 07, 2009 By John Burke and Ian Kehoe
The US firm leading the consortium to build an incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin is attempting to raise $400 million from bond investors to part-finance the project.

Covanta, a US-quoted energy firm, is heading Dublin Waste to Energy Ltd, which has been awarded the contract to build and operate the incinerator. The consortium recently assured Dublin City Council that all funding was in place for the project.

However, Covanta has struggled to secure finance for phase one of the project, and is now seeking to raise $400 million through ‘‘cash-convertible senior notes’’. It is proposing to pay investors a return of 6.5 per cent a year on their capital.


In documents filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, Covanta said the net proceeds of the bond issue would be used for working capital, including ‘‘funding a portion of the construction cost for a 1,700 metric energy-from waste facility in Dublin’’.

It is understood that Covanta had tried to raise bank debt, but no institution was willing to act as the primary banker to the Poolbeg project, due to the lack of liquidity on the international credit markets.

However, a number of lenders have informed the consortium that they may consider part-financing latter aspects of the project. The planned incinerator is a central element of the country’s waste management strategy. If completed as planned, it will burn 600,000 tonnes of waste a year, creating electricity for 50, 000 homes and hot water heating for a further 60,000 households. However, there has been opposition both to the Poolbeg project, and to incineration in general in Ireland, with a number of projects beset by delays.

Last week, John Gormley, the Green Party Minister for the Environment, is sued a circular which stated that he would introduce a levy to be borne by companies incinerating waste and any body selling waste for incineration.

Gormley has also instructed the director general of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),Dr Mary Kelly, and all council managers nationwide, that they must in future ‘‘refrain from exercising their powers in such a way as to direct waste to landfill or incineration’’.

Gormley told the EPA and the council heads that he was initiating a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), instructing them that government policy had taken decisive steps to encourage recycling and discourage incineration.

Covanta - List of Subsidiaries

SCHEDULE 4-A

List of Subsidiaries

8309 Tujunga Avenue Corp.

AC LINES LLC

American Commercial Lines Holdings LLC

Burney Mountain Power

Capital Compost & Waste Reduction Services, LLC

Central Valley Biomass Holdings, LLC

Central Valley Fuels Management Inc.

Covanta Alexandria / Arlington, Inc.

Covanta ARC Company

Covanta ARC Holdings, LLC

Covanta ARC LLC

Covanta B-3, LLC

Covanta Babylon, Inc.

Covanta Berkshire Holdings, Inc.

Covanta Berkshire Operations, Inc.

Covanta Bessemer, Inc.

Covanta Biofuels, Inc.

Covanta Bristol, Inc.

Covanta Capital District II LLC

Covanta Capital District LLC

Covanta Capital District, L.P

Covanta Company of SEMASS, L.P.

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Covanta Connecticut (S.E.), LLC

Covanta Delano, Inc.

Covanta Delaware Valley II, LLC

Covanta Delaware Valley LLC

Covanta Delaware Valley, L.P.

Covanta Development Company LLC

Covanta Energy Americas, Inc.

Covanta Energy Asia, Inc.

Covanta Energy Corporation

Covanta Energy Europe, Inc

Covanta Energy Group, Inc.

Covanta Energy Resource Corp.

Covanta Energy Services, Inc.

Covanta Engineering Services, Inc.

Covanta Essex Company

Covanta Essex II, LLC

Covanta Essex LLC

Covanta Fairfax, Inc.

Covanta Frederick/Carroll, Inc.

Covanta Funds Administration, Inc.

Covanta Hampton Roads LLC

Covanta Harford, Inc.

Covanta Harrisburg, Inc.

Covanta Haverhill Associates

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Covanta Haverhill Properties, Inc.

Covanta Haverhill, Inc.

Covanta Hawaii Energy LLC

Covanta Hempstead Company

Covanta Hempstead II, LLC

Covanta Hempstead LLC

Covanta Hennepin Energy Resource Co., Limited Partnership

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.

Covanta Holding Corporation

Covanta Honolulu Resource Recovery Venture

Covanta Huntington Limited Partnershiip

Covanta Huntington Resource Recovery One Corp.

Covanta Huntington Resource Recovery Seven Corp.

Covanta Huntsville, Inc.

Covanta Hydro Operations West, Inc.

Covanta Indianapolis, Inc.

Covanta Insurance Holdings Corporation

Covanta Kent, Inc.

Covanta Lake Holding Corp.

Covanta Lake II, Inc.

Covanta Lancaster, Inc.

Covanta Lee, Inc.

Covanta Long Island, Inc.

Covanta Maine, LLC

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Covanta Marion Land Corp.

Covanta Marion, Inc.

Covanta Mendota Holdings, Inc.

Covanta Mendota, L.P.

Covanta Mid-Conn, Inc.

Covanta Montgomery, Inc.

Covanta Niagara II, LLC

Covanta Niagara LLC

Covanta Niagara, L.P.

Covanta Oahu Waste Energy Recovery, Inc.

Covanta Omega Lease, Inc.

Covanta Onondaga Five Corp.

Covanta Onondaga Four Corp.

Covanta Onondaga Limited Partnership

Covanta Onondaga Operations, Inc.

Covanta Onondaga Three Corp.

Covanta Onondaga Two Corp.

Covanta Onondaga, Inc.

Covanta Operations of SEMASS II, LLC

Covanta Operations of SEMASS LLC

Covanta Operations of Union LLC

Covanta OPW Associates, Inc.

Covanta OPWH, Inc.

Covanta Otay 3 Company

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Covanta Pasco, Inc.

Covanta Pinellas, Inc.

Covanta Pittsfield, LLC

Covanta Power Development of Mauritius, Inc.

Covanta Power Development, Inc.

Covanta Power International Holdings, Inc.

Covanta Power Pacific, Inc.

Covanta Power Plant Operations

Covanta Projects of Hawaii, Inc.

Covanta Projects of Wallingford, L.P.

Covanta Projects, Inc.

Covanta Ref-Fuel Finance LLC

Covanta Ref-Fuel Holdings LLC

Covanta Ref-Fuel II LLC

Covanta Ref-Fuel LLC

Covanta Ref-Fuel Management II, LLC

Covanta Ref-Fuel Management LLC

Covanta Renewable Fuels LLC

Covanta Research & Technology, LLC

Covanta RRS Holdings, Inc.

Covanta SBR Associates

Covanta SECONN LLC

Covanta Secure Services, LLC

Covanta SEMASS II, LLC

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Covanta SEMASS LLC

Covanta SEMASS, L.P.

Covanta Southeastern Connecticut Company

Covanta Southeastern Connecticut, L.P.

Covanta Springfield, LLC

Covanta Stanislaus, Inc.

Covanta Systems, LLC

Covanta Union, Inc.

Covanta Wallingford Associates, Inc.

Covanta Warren Energy Resource Co., Limited Partnership

Covanta Warren Holdings I, Inc.

Covanta Warren Holdings II, Inc.

Covanta Waste to Energy of Italy, Inc.

Covanta Waste to Energy, LLC

Covanta Water Holdings, Inc.

Covanta Water Systems, Inc.

Covanta WBH, LLC

Danielson Indemnity Company

Danielson Insurance Company

Danielson National Insurance Company

Danielson Reinsurance Corporation

DSS Environmental, Inc.

Generating Resource Recovery Partners L.P.

Haverhill Power, LLC

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Koma Kulshan Associates L.P.

Kramer Capital Consultants, Inc.

LMI, Inc.

Michigan Waste Energy, Inc.

Mount Kisco Transfer Station, Inc.

MSW Energy Erie LLC

MSW Energy Finance Co. II, Inc.

MSW Energy Finance Co., Inc.

MSW Energy Holdings II LLC

MSW Energy Holdings LLC

MSW Energy Hudson LLC

MSW I Sub, LLC

Mt. Lassen Power

NAICC Insurance Services

National American Insurance Company of California

New Covanta Lake Holding LLC

OPI Quezon, LLC

Pacific Energy Operating Group, L.P.

Pacific Energy Resources Incorporated

Pacific Hydropower Company

Pacific Oroville Power, Inc.

Pacific Recovery Corporation

Pacific Wood Fuels Company

Pacific-Ultrapower Chinese Station

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Peabody Monofill Associates, Inc.

Penstock Power Company

Recycling Industries Transfer Station, LLC

SEMASS Partnership

South Fork II Associates Limited Partnership

Thermendota, Inc.

TransRiver II, LLC

TransRiver LLC

TransRiver Canada Incorporated

TransRiver Marketing Company, L.P.

TransRiver Philadelphia LLC

TransRiver Portsmouth LLC

TransRiver Transfer Systems LLC

TransRiver Waste LLC

UAH Groveville Hydro Associates

UAH Management Corp

Valor Insurance Company, Incorporated

Ambiente 2000 S.R.L.

Bal-Sam India Holdings Limited

Chengdu Jiuniang Environmental Energy Co. Ltd.

Chongqing Sanfeng Covanta Environmental Industry Co., Ltd.

Covanta Bangladesh Operating Limited

Covanta Cayman (Rojana) Limited

Covanta Cayman (Sahacogen) Limited

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Covanta Energy (Ireland) Limited

Covanta Energy (Thailand) Limited

Covanta Energy (UK) Limited

Covanta Energy Asia Holdings Limited

Covanta Energy Asia Pacific Limited

Covanta Energy China (Delta) Limited

Covanta Energy China (Gamma) Limited

Covanta Energy India (Balaji) Limited

Covanta Energy India (CBM) Limited

Covanta Energy India (Samalpatti) Limited

Covanta Energy India Private Limited

Covanta Energy International Investments Limited

Covanta Energy Limited

Covanta Energy Philippine Holdings, Inc.

Covanta Europe Engineering Limited

Covanta Europe Holdings S.a.r.l.

Covanta Europe Operations Limited

Covanta Five Limited

Covanta Four Limited

Covanta Holding Limited

Covanta India Operating Private Limited

Covanta Italy Holding, S.r.l.

Covanta Italy I S.r.l.

Covanta Italy II S.r.l.

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Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited

Covanta Mauritius O&M Ltd.

Covanta One Limited

Covanta Philippines Operating, Inc.

Covanta Samalpatti Operating Private Limited

Covanta Three Limited

Covanta Two Limited

Covanta Waste to Energy Asia Investments

Covanta Waste to Energy Asia Limited

Covanta Waste to Energy Asia Ltd

Dublin Waste to Energy (Holdings) Limited

Dublin Waste to Energy Limited

Edison (Bataan) Cogeneration Corporation

Enereruope Holdings III, B.V.

GOA Holdings Limited

Guangzhou Development Covanta Environmental Industry Co., Ltd.

Hidro Operaciones Don Pedro S.A.

Madurai Power Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

NEPC Consortium Power Ltd.

Ogden Energy (Gulf) Limited

Ogden Energy India (Bakreshwar) Limited

Ogden Power Development — Cayman, Inc.

Ogden Taiwan Investments Limited

OLMEC Insurance Ltd.

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P.H. Don Pedro

P.H. Rio Volcan

Power Operations and Maintenance Limited

Prima S.r.l.

Quezon Power (Philippines) Limited

Quezon Power, Inc.

Samalpatti Power Company Private Limited

Taixing Covanta Yanjiang Cogeneration Company Limited

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SCHEDULE 4-B

List of Significant Subsidiaries

Covanta ARC Holdings, LLC

Covanta ARC LLC

Covanta Energy Corporation

Covanta Essex Company

Covanta Essex LLC

Covanta Hempstead Company

Covanta Hempstead LLC

Covanta RRS Holdings, Inc.

Covanta SEMASS, L.P.

MSW Energy Hudson LLC

Quezon Power, Inc.

Covanta Power International Holdings, Inc.

http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=6624272-301748-466307&type=sect&dcn=0000950137-09-004066

Green-FF Incinerator Cuts Pension Costs.

Save On Your Pension Contributions.

You can now bargain with the banks for a lower cost pension plan, thanks to Green-FF.

Just vote Green-FF for the Poolbeg Waste-to-Toxins Incinerator so you can worry less about your pension - the incinerator will shorten your pension and your kids' lives by up to two years. Mr Dick Roach more or less confirmed that by dismissing a 2007 Dail question from a Dublin TD. Even experts agree.

NAMA To Rescue Uneconomic Incinerator?

Perhap's Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) can pitch in some of our €90,000,000,000 to help out Covanta, along with the €450 Million NAMA will burn to rescue the IGB speculators down the road in Poolbeg.

Green-FF states the incinerator is now uneconomic - as promised by John The Traitor Gormley. So no doubt Green-FF will next claim NAMA must save the 'uneconomic' waste-to-toxins incinerator. Fair is fair.

Green-FF Desperate Untruths on Incinerator?

Green-FF looks right, looks desperate.

There are Local and European elections coming up in June 2009. Did the Green Party publish a truth behind a lie behind the untruth behind a mistake behind the spin?

On Sunday, May 17, 2009, the Green-FF's leafleted houses with the spin that the Poolbeg incinerator would "collapse" because Covanta could not get finance.

However on Monday, MAY 18, 2009, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Covanta was selling at least $300 million in 5-year cash-convertible notes to private entities for incinerator construction in Dublin.

The WSJ states:

"Covanta said proceeds from the offering, which will be private, could be used for items including plant construction in Dublin along with potential investments or acquisitions."

Green-FF omitted this Covanta statement from The Sunday Tribune of May 17, 2009:

A statement issued to The Sunday Business Post on behalf of Covanta Europe president Scott Whitney said the company was

‘‘in the final stages of pre-construction activity, the financing to construct the facility is available and we expect to commence construction when the remaining statutory approvals have been received’’.

And Green-FF also omitted this Dublin City Council statement from The Sunday Tribune:

Seamus Lyons, Dublin Assistant City Manager, who heads the council’s environmental and engineering department, said that Dublin City Council was ‘‘satisfied that Covanta has finance in place’’.

Tiny Air Pollution Particles Cause Cancer

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REF:

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090518-703848.html
Kerry E. Grace, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5089; kerry.grace@dowjones.com

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=41818-qqqx=1.asp

EU Wonders Were Poolbeg Incinerator Hearings a Sham?

The Green-FF government does not care the Poolbeg Incinerator hearings were a political sham - they themselves and their €200,000 pensions come first. To divert the public during the elections perhaps it'd be a great idea to issue a report on 60 years of child abuse wherein the judiciary allegedly frustrated police investigations and the Pope threatened President Bertie (Parish of Boston-not-Berlin, says hello).

Guess why Ireland is ranked worse than China and Ghana for legal corruption by the World Bank. Is Poolbeg a good location to research legal corruption?

The Poolbeg Incinerator Hearings at Board Pleanala and at EPA-Ireland were apparently decided by unseen politicians above the heads of the professionals in those organisations. The boards appear to be loaded with either incinerator-industry-insiders or political-crony appointees. A fewyears ago John Gormley condemned EPA's director but now he's in charge he has done nothing about her.

Good science and the public good appear to have been ignored by the bosses of the regulators. Political cronyism at the banks, the alleged financial regulators and the building-industry have near-bankrupted the economy. Political cronyism operating on or in the other alleged regulators, EPA and Bord Pleanala, combined with an offshore-based waste-to-toxins incineration industry may shorten lives by up to two years across Dublin.

In the following diplomatic language the EU Commission seems to say the Poolbeg Incinerator Hearings were a sham:

‘Because of weaknesses in Irish legislation
splitting decision-making between planning authorities
and the
Environmental Protection Agency,
there are risks that outcomes required by the
EU directive will not always be achieved.’

With elections coming up Green-FF is spinning that the offshore operators have no money. Covanta-Poolbeg is based in Luxembourg. There are lots of offshored-banks in Luxembourg, almost nothing else. And Covanta has lots of money.

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EU takes legal action over planned Poolbeg incinerator (19/3/09)

http://eurolinknews.com/2009/03/19/eu-takes-legal-action-over-planned-poolbeg-incinerator-19309/.

March 19, 2009 eurolinknews.com

The proposed waste incinerator at Poolbeg is the subject of fresh controversy this week after it emerged that the EU has lodged legal proceedings against the Irish government over its handling of incinerator projects. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has confirmed that Ireland was referred to the European Court of Justice in the last few weeks after it failed to respond to a final warning over alleged breaches of EU law. A statement issued by the Commission highlights concerns that all the environmental implications of the Poolbeg plant may not have been considered before it was approved in 2007. It reads, ‘Because of weaknesses in Irish legislation splitting decision-making between planning authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency, there are risks that outcomes required by the EU directive will not always be achieved.’

It’s the latest in a saga of legal controversy dogging the planned €266 thermal treatment facility, which has nonetheless managed to secure a licence to burn 600,000 tonnes of household waste a year. But this international case could be particularly embarrassing for Environment Minister John Gormley, who has previously been vocal in his opposition to Poolbeg. The Minister has come under fire from Dublin MEP Proinsias De Rossa for failing to respond to the EU’s written warning earlier. ‘This is yet another unnecessary, costly legal battle; it’s a sad state of affairs that Europe should have to take legal action against a Green Party Minister to ensure that all the implications of incineration are considered,’ he said.

http://eurolinknews.com/2009/03/19/eu-takes-legal-action-over-planned-poolbeg-incinerator-19309/

Six Degrees of Separation Or Less, at Poolbeg

€450,000,000

€90,000,000,000
€400,000,000,000
A Colony Again.

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