COLUMBUS — “It would help neighbors in Wellsville and the surrounding area to know what a plant like Baard Energy wants to build looks like in real life. Here is one, in Secunda, South Africa, that uses the same technology Baard plans to use.
If this looks like a refinery, its because that’s what it is. The name ‘Ohio River Clean Fuels Coal-To-Liquids Facility’ was chosen to avoid having to call it a refinery. A ‘refinery’ is defined as ‘an installation that manufactures finished petroleum products from crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, other hydrocarbons, and oxygenates.’ Coal is a hydrocarbon, and the Baard plant is a refinery,” Paul Ryder, Organizing Director, Ohio Citizen Action.
The most common picture presented in Baard Energy promotional materials is the following:
The labels on the different locations are too small to read, so the viewer could easily think that the facility would be made up of the modest structures in place on the bank of the Ohio River. The location for the Baard plant, however, is the wooded area outlined in blue at the top of the graphic. So this image shows what the land looks like now, before the facility is built.
Baard Energy has prepared a graphic of what it says the facility will look like when it is built, and here it is:
It would help neighbors in Wellsville and the surrounding area to know what a plant like the one Baard wants to put in looks like in real life. Here is one, in Secunda, South Africa, that uses the same technology Baard plans to use. The Secunda plant is the largest refinery of its kind in the world, and three times the size of the proposed Baard refinery. Here is a shot of the Secunda refinery, and a satellite photo:
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