If you live in New York State, I'd like to ask for your help on this one. As it happens, Albany has a one-time $5 Billion windfall landing in its 2015 budgetary lap, as a result of big bank settlements and fines.
What to do with that $5 B?
Personally, I'd like to see NYS
• create jobs in all sections of the state
• reduce peak demand on our overloaded electrical grid
• increase renewable energy production
• lower water/sewer rates around the state
• reduce waste volume to landfills
• lower landfill methane emissions
• upgrade waste-water treatment facilities
• give farmers access to better quality and more environmentally-friendly fertilizer
• give food suppliers access to more convenient waste processing
Does that sound like a lot? Actually, Albany could do all that and more simply by using the windfall to modernize the anaerobic digesters of waste-water treatment plants throughout the state. For this reason, I started this petition to let Governor Cuomo know about a good way to distribute that $5 Billion around the state. If this sounds good to you, please sign my biogas petition to NY Governor Cuomo (click anywhere in the previous phrase), and share it as widely as you can.
Thank you for whatever help you can give me on this, and may it be one more step towards that renewable energy future that we need to create for ourselves as soon as we possibly can.
Also, if you'd like to know more about the biogas process, which could and should become a major component of the long-term renewable energy strategy, the website for the American Biogas Council has a wealth of information, at www.americanbiogascouncil.org.