Steve CrawfordEnvironmental Director

NTF JUNE 2-4, 2009Chair, TAMS Steering committee

Chair, USET Natural Resource Committee

Member, NTWC

Member, NTC

Member, TEPAC

Solar Power Photo-voltaics Geothermal RGGI review Algae biomass Windpower Tidal power Waste to energy Project Bunch of thoughts

Rural Renewable Energy Alliance Jay Edens Director Non-profit , based in Minneapolis Turn key production facility to produce solar

panels for less than $1,500 for 4 x 10 ft panels Generate enough heat to reduce heating bills 25% Much better than LIHEAP

Production facility employs 2 people, in 20’x 20’

Tribe may be able to access RGGI funds for development

Passamaquoddy Development and Supply

Production doubling every two years 12,400 MW globally Germany leads the world in photo-

energyproduction, with 30% less sun thanVermont.

Power cost /kwh will be at parity with fossil fuels by 2012

Carbon Credit fund, begun October 2008Quarterly auction for next 9 yearsFirst auction generated $2.8 millionFunds for reducing CO2 emissions$40,000 grant received for weatherization

of houses

“ There is no other resource that Comes even close in magnitude to the potential for making oil”

John Sheehan, energy analyst, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), DOE, Golden, CO

Corn, 18 gal/acre: Algae, 5,000 Lipid content, Corn <2%, Chlorella Alga, 44 20000 gal of algal culture = 300 gal

biodiesel Harvest every 4 days, 1,000 gal bioreactor

yields 300 gal biodiesel every 20 weeks.

Wind power site

Windpower site

WINDPOWER SITES

Wind powersite

15 months wind data Class 3 wind, commercially viable RFP to 13 contractors, resulting in one

proposal, DISGEN Simple lease, no ownership, annual

lease payment beginning at $227,000, escalate to $324,000 by year 25.

100% ownership would yield $7,623,000 first year, escalating to $10,723,000 by year 25.

Cedar Mountain, T3R9No met data, but approx 25 miles from 30.5

MW Stetson Mountain project being constructed.

Transmission line <8 miles, in Millinocket

Prentiss TownshipProbably best wind farm site in State, but

no transmission lines nearby.Quebec Hydro Line 8 miles to west

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TIDAL PROJECT SITES

UEK Turbines

2 – year FERC pilot lease, funded by BIA, ends 2010

Produce enough power to power sewage treatment plant, approx. $2,000/month

Further development of tidal turbine “farm” has low potential, might generate 2 MW to provide power for local area.Requires substantial regulatory

development, and at least 10 years away.

Not incineration Reduce volume Recycle metal and glass Recover energy

By-products: syn-gas, water, fly ash, glass, metals

Very little CO2Tipping fees approx. $40-50/ton

Proven Technology, with plants being used since 1992 by US Navy, Canadian Department of Defense, numerous different markets and site locations around the world and in the US.

50 Ton plant =200 ft x 85 ft x 30 ft building, greenhouse is extra

Tribal participation, on Tribal Trust landNear NEBCO office?Reclaim MSW dumps in Washington CountyReduce tipping feesGenerate power and heatReduce CO2 emissions5 acre greenhouse for algal oil production,

vegetable/medicinal plant production

We are at 387 ppm now, there is no return

Climate change and food 15 billion Tons CO2 equivelants from

agriculture Includes 7.2 billion Tons from livestock

World carry-over stocks of grain 2008= 62 days; a record low.25% of US grain is going to bio-fuel, enough

to feed 500 million Indians.

Take home messages: • To meet agricultural demand, productivity would need to double on a land area basis.

• CO2 fertilization of crop yield is only half of what is assumed in global food security models.

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Don Ort, Inst. Of Genomic Biology, U. of Ill. @ Urbana-Champaign, 2008

Climate change and water70% of all freshwater used for irrigationWheat production – 8% since 1997, Rice – 4%

Climate change and health: Direct:

Thermal stress, death/injury in storms, floods

Indirect:Changes in range of disease vectors

Impacts:Traumatic, infectious, nutritional,

psychological occurring in demoralized and displaced populations.

Every human exhales 1 ton of CO2/yr

8.2 Billion tons/yr CO2 released from fossil fuel combustion

THERE ARE 6.8 BILLION OF US

There’s a crack in everything

That’s how the light gets in

To illuminate us and save our world