SALEM - biodiesel, sustainable community, and more

I would advise asking your supplier where the biofuel source is coming from. Huge new palm oil plantatations are being used to meet the biofuel demand here and in Europe. the last intact Indonesian and Bornea rainforests are being destroyed for these palm oil plantations. If the people there were supplying their own needs that is one thing but greedy white (asain too) men have decided that the fuel is for export. Greed F&*^*#@ things up again. Boycott Palm oil biodiesel.

sequential biofuels supplies MNOP (marc nelson oil products) and flower power biodiesel. (  http://www.sqbiofuels.com ). the oil is produced on site (turner road in south salem).  http://www.b100fuel.com/archives/2005/07/first_small_bio_1.html . though, they may be importing vegetable oil. i am not sure about the origins of the oil itself but i will look into it.

at the bottom of the flowerpower website:
 http://www.pringlecreek.com/
it's the url for the 140 unit community

hey nate, just a correction on pringle creek community...
yes, it's a forward thinking group, pushing the parameters of sustainable development, going beyond environmental stewardship and exploring other aspects of sustainable living, of living more fully human (such as establishing intergenerational, cultural and economic diversity, promoting functional art, learning, reading, civics, and so on). and it's designed around very old sequoias and oaks, the creek and wetlands, and historic buildings and structures to be restored in the community square, topography to take into account natural ventilation. there will be a large carbon neutral neighborhood, permeable streets and bioswales to return 99% of water to the acquifer, there are plans for geothermal heating and cooling and a living machine to filter waste water for a bioswale (not to be released into the creek, but into the ground). some materials from pringle creek's deconstructed buildings will be reused onsite, the rest will be reused at another site or recycled. the design team will require all houses be built with FSC certified lumber, the list goes on -- they are really going for a 10 out of 10 in regards to sustainability. this project will be great for salem and oregon, and for the entire northwest...

Hello Nate,

Thanks for writing in. The vast majority of the oil we use comes from Used Cooking Oil from area restaurants and businesses like Burgerville and Kettle Foods. We are also very interested in supporting farmers by using oil from crops grown in the Northwest, like canola, but there isn't much agrarian production of oilseed crops as of yet in the region.



Thanks for your support of domestically produced, renewable fuel,
Sasha





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Sasha Friedman

SeQuential Biofuels

7326 N. Chicago Ave.

Portland, OR 97203

503.978.3210-- business

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I am wondering why, if SeQuential Biofuels is picking up waste oils from Kettle Foods, why then did Kettle Foods dump oil into the Salem sewer system ? when they could have picked up the phone and called sequential.



Salem slaps penalty on Kettle Foods
07:20 AM PDT on Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. -- The city fined Kettle Foods more than $12,000 because a worker at the potato chip plant pumped cooking oils and solids from the food processing operation into Salem's sewer system.

The Salem plant makes a variety of chips. (File Photo)
Moreover, the city found the company could only produce records of effluent flows for a three-week span, not the required five-year period.
City officials detected the problems March 23, and issued a civil penalty on April 20.
Kettle Foods officials blamed a mistake made by workers who were upgrading a waste water treatment system. They said the city discovered the error during a routine visit.
"We worked quickly to correct the situation," company officials said in a statement.