State (Iowa) sues company accused of dumping wind-turbine blades
Iowa Capital Dispatch | Sept. 26, 2024 | Clark KauffmanThe state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.
The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa.
The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws.
Global Fiberglass Solutions and its CEO, Donald Lilly, are named as defendants in the case, as is Ronald Albrecht, one of Global’s corporate officers. The defendants could not be reached for comment.
From last year and Texas (but I repeat myself), here’s a story that’s behind a paywall, but the headline says it all:
From Iowa, 2021…
State: Company illegally storing hundreds of old wind turbine blades at three Iowa sites
You mean they can’t be recycled? Oh Noes!
So..is there an odometer or something..x number of turns and its gone? I bet the ones made out of coal last longer..
The lead edges of the blades are constantly smacking into bugs, birds, small children, etc. They need to be replaced regularly.
Just dump the old used blades in the ocean…problem solved.
Corvette Lover:
“Why not make more corvettes out of them? They’re mostly made of fiberglass. This is the biggest travesty in the history of travesties”!
They should just use the old blades as storage tanks for all the gallons and gallons of used oil that comes out of those turbines.