Gmail - ZESC Proposal- requesting Municipal Solid Waste for recycling i... https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=954e 193168&view=pt&q=Robin.

M <zesc1971@gmail.com> Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM

To: Scott Robinson <Scott.Robinson@oregonmetro.gov>, Marvin Fjordbeck <Marvin.Fjordbeck@oregonmetro.gov>,
Paul Ehinger <PauI.Ehinger@oregonmetro.gov>, David White <davidw@orra.net>, rod.par,k@oregonmetro.gov
Bcc: shirley@shirleycraddick.com, david@slatiwonk.com, Mark Alexander <iffg777@msn.com>

Mr. Robinson, Metro Deputy Chief Operating Officer

------.
Mr. Fjordbeck, Metro General Counsel

Mr. Ehinger, Metro Solid Waste Operations

Mr. Rod Park, Metro Councilor District 1 (elected official)

Mr. David White, Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association

Mr. Robinson and Metro

I spoke with Mr. David White of ORRA, whom you identified as a lobbyist for the waste-haulers, again on Martin
Luther King, day. In December he had indicated a need to delay assistance after the holidays and then had not
responded to email/phone requests to resume in 2010. The upshot of our conversation is that though Mr. White
understands that the lESC proposal asks a lero Tipping fee for the MSW commitment, yet he declines to represent
this opportunity to the haulers or the municipalities. He cites as his basis that he has discussed the lESC proposal
in certain venues and been assured by unnamed others that the lESC facility will not achieve reality. ,I did then
"walk" Mr. White through the reasons why the lESC facility would not have been on the "usual track" (namely, that
we are utilizing entirely non-public funds and non-municipal full-faith-and-credit debt instruments, etc) and so lESC
is not and and never was going through the any of the usual channels, for Mr. White's own understanding moving
forward. Mr. White was still not inclined to be of assistance.

I acknowledged to Mr. White that compliance with the DEP is entirely the lESC's responsibility. Inasmuch as MSW
is currently dumped onto floors just across the street from the pending lESC location prior to being hauled to the
landfill where it undergoes uncontrolled oxidation producing air and ground and eventually as all landfill liners leak,
ground-water pollution, I do not anticipate the DEP refusing to allow MSW to be better-processed and converted
into energy and building products without any releasing greenhouse gases or gaseous effluent whatsoever (the
lESC has no smokestack). The DEP, after all, must obey the law, too. As the lESC proposal is other-funded the
DEP has nothing "to lose," the law insists that they perform anyway, and the DEP may gain true pollution
remediation of air, ground and water. All the motivators are aligned for provisional permits to be followed by
permanent permits following the testing arranged with O'Brien and Gere, nationally recognized environmen~al
experts.

80f12 5/6/20102:08pr