Brown County Gusweiler's DeathSquad Coverup Hits the Fan in Federal Court Wrongful Death Case

Anyone that was around Brown County in 2013-15 will remember all the days when they couldn't open the local newspapers without seeing mention about the 'Death in Brown County's Jail' or Zachary Goldson.

The jail and the Coroner had differing opinions over whether the death was a suicide or a homicide. The Coroner stood alone.

Brown County courts denied the then Coroner Judith Varnau a chance to hold *another* inquest over the death, despite there NOT having been a 1st inquest into the matter. Which also kept Zachary's mother from getting any closure over the properly coroner-declared homicide.

Media coverage has died down over the years and it would be easy to think that everything's blown over...except there's a Wrongful Death Case IN FEDERAL COURT (not Gusweilers' court) against the accused deputies still ongoing as filed by Zachary's momma (Christy Dennis) and family -- technically by the administrator for Zachary's estate Ashley Bard.


The latest round of court documents caught our interest. The Defendants' (the DeathSquad) Lawyers have filed for summary judgment, stating all the evidence against their clients was mere 'opinion.'


How about we take a look at what could be some very damning 'opinions'?


1st: There are 'opinions' of other law enforcement individuals, including Hamersville's own Police Chief, that the mark around Zachary Goldson's neck looked more like it came from 'a dog leash' and another law enforcement member suggested a similar but more relevant possibility would be a hobble strap -- USED AS A COLLAR, not its intended use. A hobble is a strap used by police for additional restraint of legs when transported in cruisers, so that the leash end can anchor and prevent the shackled legs of the apprehendee from kicking out the vehicle's windows. Use as a 'collar' is forbidden.

FURTHERMORE it was other law officer's opinions that A bunched-up sheet wouldn't make as smooth edged, narrow, even-width mark as was present on Mr. Goldson's throat. And that mark wasn't there when they roughly dragged Mr Goldson through the entry room on the surveillance video, so where did it come from?



2nd: The sheriff's chief deputy removed (for 'upgrading') the sprinkler head that they claimed Mr. Goldson hung himself from before the investigation of said sprinkler could be conducted for any court cases that could follow. As such any re-creation of events done in that cell would be problematic. (A felony of evidence destruction) However, a Mr Scott G Roder and his staff (who do forensic scene reconstruction for a living) made a re-creation of Cell 15 that Mr. Goldson supposedly hung himself in. And as part of the court-case discovery process they produced calculations and video evidence of their attempts to reach across the open space to the sprinkler and tie the required knots while standing on the rim of the cell's sink and leaning at that difficult angle, without using one hand on the ceiling to counter the leaning-angle since both hands were needed to work on prying and tying. Not possible. All confirmed by the sprinkler system providers as well who insisted that, additionally a tool of some kind would be needed, while wrestling with the sheet, to pry the escutcheon of the sprinkler away from the ceiling where the installers tighten them securely for their profession's safety reasons.


3rd: Now this gets really damning of the deputies' honesty. The currently existing copy of the security hall video (which was unprofessionally at best in the extended custody of the suspected deputies) does, at least, have the scene of the deputies entering and exiting the cell after they supposedly took the cuffs and shackles off of Mr Goldson and left him in the cell. Close examination of the scenes shows that there is a severe discrepancy in their testimony as there were no shackles and only two of the sets of cuffs and a transport belt they had used on him in anyone's hands, pockets, belts etc when they came out.

What were the cuffs and shackles still doing while no one was watching the alleged attempt to climb (barefoot since they did take his shoes out of the cell) and wrestle with sheets and sprinkler heads????

And furthermore there was testimony from a reception phone area deputy that said the murder suspects had to retrieve 'the cuffs' per her information from the phone message among the deputies after they'd split up to regular duties before 'discovering' the poor victim.

The hall video even shows them stare more downward than upward when supposedly looking at the victim in the claimed 'hanging-discovery' scene. Totally at odds with the depositions the death-squad gave to the BCI interrogators in charge of the initial investigation. How is this a matter of 'opinion'?

4th: But this is the bit of evidence we find most interesting...and would want to know how it could possibly be an 'opinion'? Long before all this drama started, as a kid, Zachary was in an incident that electrocuted the middle finger of his left hand, leaving parts of the hand including the finger weaker and difficult to handle. Anyone that looks at Mr. Goldson's fingerprints on file can see the weakness in the middle finger. And there they are,

Now let's think about tying the knots required for Mr. Goldson to hang himself. If you tried doing it one-handed how far would you get, how long would it take and how much help would a damaged left hand help in the matter. Especially if you factor in all the other events that'd taken place beforehand and would need to take place for him to reach the sprinkler head to tie the sheet around it. Doubly especially when there was even that testimony from the sprinkler's installer that all such heads are directly flush against the ceiling, making there not be enough room for a thick, bunched up sheet to be squeezed in-between without a lot of manual work for prying and tool use.

This leaves evidence and 'opinions' sounding quite damning despite this all being 'just' a Wrongful Death case, coming ingeniously to likely 'homicide' conclusions

even after the state appointed (DeWine’s) 'special prosecutor' Daniel ‘Woody’ Breyer manipulated a sweeping show til the grand jury unlawfully decided it was 'suicide', not just that the suspects were not indictable,
AND
worse, after the county's own judge Gusweiler is still prohibiting, under threat of contempt of court, the then coroner Dr. Judith Varnau from continuing her investigating according to her sworn statutory duty,
AND
even after coming on top of the Death squad's own lawsuit demanding the Coroner's lawful work was violating their civil rights (a case still pending in FEDERAL COURT also, if any of these Federal Law Enforcers are allowed to notice this wrongful death data, rotfl at what's about to hit the fan). CAUGHT! AT LAST.

ROTFL, as Gusweiler is hopefully limited in his threats of contempt of court jailtime against the former Coroner on top of his already imposed $7grand for working at her private files.

Surely this is the reason that the Common Law Coroners were designated to protect the rights of the deceased, and Brown County used to have such a Coroner. Now the County is back to having a coroner per ohio law that only comes to death scenes when invited. Too bad.... But at least we can hope for the arrival of the US Marshal, making the swat team visits to the courthouse, the Sheriff's Deputies offices and wherever else the Death Squad and collaborators are now.... ttyl

Transcripts, Verdicts and Veterans' Suicides Scandal

Brown County Coroner Varnau's trial verdict has been delayed while the BC court recorder was working on the Judge's request for a transcript, which took much longer than expected. That document was filed last week so it's public record, for those who were doubtful about the surprises that emerged in the trial. The media coverage was so clearly lacking in any attempt to connect the dots as to make one wonder why anyone would read the 'coverage' and not simply resign to the idea that they missed it. Now begins the wait for Judge Kessler to write his decision, suitably annotated with direct quotes, in about another week. His original estimate of having it done the week after the trial would likely mean the new estimate will be more lengthy, since the request for a transcript suggests more elaborate agendas. Agreed? Not what we expected. Suspenseful waiting, with some assurance from others who claim to be familiar with this judge's work. Unlike the usual 'work record' in Brown County's courts, where the performance is a disgrace to justice for citizens. More on that record soon.

Meanwhile, let's not allow more veterans to be lost forever in the suicides that opened the door for the Sheriff and Prosecutor to conspire with hearse-chasing lawyers to 'solve' their political problems with an indy coroner who goes to every death scene (unlike the previous coroner who only went when invited), at the expense of aggrieved families. Let's find ways to get proper help for our local veterans now risking suicides. Like the help in Oklahoma here a legislator made it his business to move the mountains of FDA resistance to get HBOT, the help he had seen, for himself, did actually work.. HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen) was improving every veteran's life abilities who tried it, some fully, others to 80% of their own ability within a few sessions, recognizing that they had suffered brain injuries in the battlefield's constant exposure to concussive forces of the ubiquitous explosive incidents. Acknowledging the reality of physical damage suffered, measuring brain scans improving, and life skills returning, to end the misery of suicides that is occurring around the country, not just in Brown County but across the country. Then veterans can return home, really whole. Not face more death here.

Nationally, the scandal over veterans' medical care, has direct ties to the recent unwholesome rash of veterans' suicides here as well. The statistics over all, show a terrifying number of suicides by our veterans. TWENTY TWO A DAY.

That's right. TWENTY TWO VETERANS COMMIT SUICIDE EACH DAY, EVERY DAY.

Let's realize that if some military adventure in the war zone had a death rate of that size, there would be news media and headlines and TVs doing major features. Where are they when this death rate is EVERY DAY. Not just an isolated tragedy.

And worse, every day once we think we have them safely home. Twenty two die here back among us.

Here in BC, we see many families losing loved ones that they thought were safely getting medical care from the VA. The reality -- as you would hear it if you were to talk to those at the Open Arms Always group here -- is that there is an opioid scandal in the way that the medical resources are doled to our veterans. On top of the nationwide scandal of delays.

The VA is drugging our veterans into silence when they finally get attention from the VA. Drugging, or trying to escape it.

Meanwhile their real injury goes untreated. One recent suicide here was of a young man whom the VA had allowed marijuana, at least something that had no harm, but that was merely covering up his real injury.

How many others are there in the quagmire or waiting. Brain injuries from the repetitive exposure to explosive incidents are rampant, as was shown in a Nebraska returning combat group, where more than half showed such injuries, though most, were not some visible wound at all, nor even medically noted.

In brain injuries, like PTSD, the behavior of the victim is not very predictable and sudden turn arounds to frightening behavior is not unexpected. So sedating these young people, further depriving them of their life potential is criminal. WHEN THERE IS A TREATMENT THAT HAS SHOWN GOOD PROMISE OF 80% RETURNS TO FULL PRODUCTIVITY WITH A FEW TREATMENTS.

That's what has been the experience of those who have tried the medical specialty of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, which is more well known along the US coastlines where it's usually called 'divers medicine' where it saves lives in diving accidents.

The treatment itself is decently do-no-harm and relaxing for an hour every other day in a pleasant chamber. An amazing, almost space-age scene, where the chamber is pressurized to a couple atmospheres. The treatment for PTSD now being used in New Orleans, actually only goes to 1.5ATA (aka atmospheres absolute). And even 1.3ATA of the soft-sided chambers have shown matching promise in TBI (traumatic brain injury). The soft-sided chambers are used by many top athletes with their own sports medicine MDs. Unfortunately many other athletes are simply handled by the team doctors who satisfy the greed of the NFL owners by doping up injured players so totally they continue to damage themselves by playing while injured with no sense of protecting themselves. So even those softsided chambers, only a few thousand dollars or even leased chambers, have shown good promise in controlled testing for brain injuries, why not try them for veterans, and reach tens of thousands now, not after many are dead.

Google Dr Paul Harch, PTSD, and hyperbaric oxygen, etc. then visualize what opportunities there would be for VETERANS' FAMILIES to own (maybe lease-to-own) such a chamber and then bring their own veteran's friends in for club meeting, around treatments, sharing the costs, instead of waiting for governmental bureaucrats by the tangled thousands, with misallegiances, incompetence, and mountains of insane paper and rules, to do the decent thing while stalwart veterans suffer.

Nor would such a venture be necessarily short term. If you didn't want it to be.

Our families, friends and relatives, making such an investment, would solve ADHD, stroke damage, birth injuries, post-surgery healing, pre-surgery body strengthening, and anti-aging problems. Can't you see how wonderful such an investment would be, for those making it as well as for those around them.

Why not pool resources, use savings before the government takes them all, and investigate your own HBO2 chamber possibilities. Like the folks at EMRClubhouse setting up their own operation for 'Emergency Medical Refugee' friends, they say, and aren't our veterans, our families all looking like medical refugees to you. They do, in my opinion.

Confirmed: Sheriff's Office is behind the attack on the Indy Coroner, all the rest is fluff-n-mirrors using grieving families as pawns

After 1 full day of trial, both sides came into the 2nd day a bit worn down.  But the Defense still seemed much better prepared, particularly later on when the Prosecution couldn't find crucial evidence that they could then only merely claim did exist.

In that crucial claiming attempt, the prosecuting attorney (Bradley Braun) demanded that the court disbelieve the coroner (who said she had not ever rejected the Sheriff's men's help, particularly not from Chief Schadle) and the court should believe instead the conflicting (lying? for some reason, or simply wrongheaded interpretation) claim of the Chief Deputy (John Schadle) that she had rejected his offer in the initial negotiations in the 2hour effort at smooth changing of the guard time (when the old coroner retired in December 2012).

That negotiation was recorded and is accessible on the Varnau website for public assessing of public records and Varnau had just reviewed that recording the night before in anticipation of likely plaintiff-claims (since Schadle's testimony triggered that expectation on trialday 1) and she said she had found no mis-interpretable content. That lady does her homework.

The court tolerated a nearly half hour delay while the prosecution TEAM of Braun, Hawkins and an assistant went into a private area to search the CD for something to make their claim seem valid. The judge's patience eventually declined to wait any further, after even asking if they hadn't at least even captured it in transcribed form.

Totally disgraced as competent if not as truthful, but that didn't deter the bombastic Braun or induce him to tone down any bit of his unsupported claiming, not even after seeing how many, not just that one 'missing' evidence piece, of their inflammatory claims were explained away in the reality of law enforcement and its law-based division of responsibility in normal small county law enforcement.

For example, the inciting-horror scene of one next of kin finding a piece of their loved-one's skull on the mantle and taking it to the coroner and asking what to do with it in a flurry of outraged expectations, we saw those crowd-inciting claims melt away in the testimony on the reality of the events.

When the event of the skull-mutilated body discovery was testified to, it turned out that the body was found in a darkened room and the deputy chose to advise the coroner to NOT TURN ON THE LIGHT SWITCH AS IT MIGHT BE BOOBY TRAPPED, based on his opinion of the likelihood that such a planned suicide as he was considering this scene to be was sometimes set up to destroy those who discovered the body by booby trapping some feature that would need attention from those coming on the scene. And the darkened room seemed suspicious to him. And she complied as a good team player does. Hence the investigation proceeded BY FLASHLIGHT since there was no one to relieve that fear in some cautious forensic-science way.

Consequently the victim's head, the top of which was in smithereens, with blood, brain tissue, skin and bone fragment sections plastered on the ceiling, the curtains, everywhere was not so easily reassembled to determine 'missing' piece identities. The coroner gathered as much as was possible under the flashlight circumstances and sent the puzzle pieces with the body in the EMT's body bag to the hospital morgue, meticulously as possible under time pressure, but obviously not ceiling stuff, nor curtain stuff. The relative arrived much later with the skull fragment at a point after the body had been reduced to ash in a ceremonial cremation, leaving not much to be done with the kin's horror but to suggest a contemporary-style private burial for the skull-piece with a symbolic life-surviving tree planting to mark the decedent's passage.

Once the reality of the blood splashed, flash-light search disaster was before the courtroom's eyes, instead of conceding that one of the Plaintiff's grievances was answered decently, the desperate ploy used by Braun was to scowl and demand that the Coroner should have sent the piece to the funeral director to be cremated as well, IGNORING THE REALITY OF THE COST TO THE KIN OF A SECOND FIRING OF THE FULL SIZE KILN. Morons running the prosecution were in evidence. Yet the courtroom failed to show any cognition of stupidity and disgust at that ploy, possibly since the horror of the scene and the reality of flashlights scanning for fragments of brain tissue and skin and bone had most in shock.

Similarly, the pumped up outrage of 'evidence destruction' over the coroner's cleaning the face of the decedent in a possibly (remotely) suspicious death, was just the Coroner making the deceased presentable for the decedent's parents after the deceased was in the hospital morgue, and after the initial photos and evidence gathering was done... so that the parents would see a more recognizable son.

Other evidence-loss claims similarly melted in the open description of the events, such as the outrageously stupid idea that the coroner was supposed to have taken fingerprints off a gun and gunpowder residues off the body as part of her cause, manner and mode of death investigation when plainly such evidence responsibilities were the Sheriff's burden as finding WHO-DONE-IT, not the medical cause, manner nor mode.

Yet Braun demanded repeatedly such phrases that described crucial evidence-destruction, families deprived of consolation, etc be kept in the court's ears as the testimony's content, as if the discovery of what was IN THE LAW'S DEFINITION OF SHERIFF'S RESPONSIBILITIES had never emerged into view. An obvious stonewalling of truth, no truth-seeking nor fact-finding reverence, by Braun and the prosecution group, ever.

Not even after the Coroner from Highland County testified that such sorts of evidence were not part of a Coroner's professional training nor was any law-mandated requirement. The insiders did say that when dealing with the big city operations where Coroner's had roomfuls of technicians that more extensive services were sometimes provided, but not in small counties.

As we've heard from other sources, the Coroner uses part of her salary to supply extra deputies, one a medical colleague from her office whom she shares obstetric time-challenges with and the other a law enforcement investigator otherwise retired. End of conversation on public care for responsibilities at the Coroner's Office.

By contrast, the Sheriff's Office has had a couple of budget battles in which they extorted extra funding from the County's limited resources in order to hire extra people at the jail (demanding that the county pay even more to house what the Chief Deputy considered to be inadequately monitored inmates at the Butler County jail) and in the most recent battle demanding, in court combat with the County Commissioners, that the County pay ever more of the Sheriff's legal expenses.

This jail expense extortion has been compounded by (subsequent to hiring more deputies, possibly even including Schadle's son) two 'suicides' at the jail. The last one, the Goldson case, was investigated by the current Coroner. The previous death (just 2 years before Goldson) was not even investigated by the prior coroner, whose recollection failed as to his involvement, which absence is not something on tape, unfortunately for improving his recollection.

Guess what has happened with the current investigation: the marks on the victim's neck were consistent with strangulation NOT HANGING, as the jail staff claim happened. AND Chief Schadle's role (with his son being among the four on duty at the time) was to remove evidence including the sprinkler head supposedly used for the deed (ignoring the manufacturer's claim that it was suicide-proof which is accomplished by making the sprinkler head break off at 40 pounds of stress), as well as erasing the hallway security film within the week, not preserving it (though after the row that arose over this, Schadle claimed he gave 'a copy' to BCI). That 'suicide/homicide' was just about as long ago as it would take a bunch of socio-pathic villains to trump up this inflated bunch of charges against the Coroner who refused to back down on her evidence of homicide, not suicide.

Considering that the Ohio Bureau of Crime Investigations has not yet issued its report on this homicide/suicide dispute, taking extreme caution in hurry-avoidance, the incidents surrounding the jail were off limits in the Coroner's case, and so this is supposed to be just held in abeyance. But it fits the pattern of why the anti-coroner-evidence in this county-uproar of supposed outrage, is dissolving under the glare of examination of the circumstances.

Ditto the bandied-about-in-the-press interviews full of shock-n-awe do dissolve, with claims made by the cocky prosecution spreading accusatory slander about the one case involving money. The incident where the deputy coroner had taken money from the decedent's wallet and given it away to someone other than the Sheriff, with the Braun suggesting malfeasance, at the very least, fizzled. It turned out that the deputy had put the money in the coroner's safe until next of kin could be determined and finally gave it to some party (with receipt) who showed powers of attorney documents and with no next of kin found nearby. To which Braun then tried to save his own face by changing his accusations and now exclaiming that the Coroner was 'acting as a probate judge', with that scolding, scowling about practicing law without a license, and thereby attempting to divert sensible recognition that he was concealing the function of the decedent's executor and those who have custody of what's owed to the decedent, as well as the probate judge's role in simply overseeing the recordkeeping presented to the judge by the executor. Total gaming the truth by Braun.

And then come the gun handling stories. The annoyance of the faulty claiming by Braun was evident in one astute observer's comparison of 'who was jeopardizing the public'. Consider their analysis:

"The one thing that really irks me is this.  They blame Dr. Judi Varnau for not taking the gun at the Zachary Adamson case after Dep. Crawford removed it from her body-scene and her assistant called 911 to have the SO come pick it up and they wouldn't do so, where Zachary's roommate, the roommate's sister and both of the roommates' parents were present, with other guns in the house, and we're supposed to believe that it was Dr. Judi Varnau's big fault to give the gun to the roommate after the sheriff's deputy had taken it for his purposes.

Then on the other hand the Sheriff's Office responds to Blue Sky Park Road where Joshua Carter had shot himself with a gun, same as Zachary Adamson, only people were standing around outside the house.  The Sheriff's deputies leave the gun on the floor, the door open, and put yellow "CRIME SCENE" tape up around the house, indicating it is a crime scene, and then the sheriff's deputies completely leave the scene unattended, the life squad leaves, and the coroner hasn't even arrived on the scene.

Which instance are we supposed to believe is more dangerous to the public? Where the coroner doesn't take the gun with her who has no place to store a firearm or any other evidence from a scene, or the SO abandoning the gun when he not only has a place to store guns and evidence, but leaves a gun completely accessible to anyone who wanted to come in and pick it up and use it on someone else?"

Every time we tallied it, the prosecution's case was dissolving (though their rhetoric continued full blast) in each fact-found, logical explanation, with no real stretch of imagination. It wasn't that the answers didn't fit together in vague ways. The picture of each event was clearly showing that the prosecution's charges were fraudulent or at least so malfeasant in investigation and case-preparation, that their effort was nothing more than loud marketing of shocking claims without substance.

By comparison, Tom Eagle, the Varnau family lawyer's defense, was thoroughly prepared -- to ask the scene-developing questions, and when an opposing witness developed 'amnesia' (like the Sheriff and a couple Deputies), Tom Eagle reached over the defense table and activated a media file, from sources like the 911-operator or the sheriff's communications records to "refresh" their curiously amnesia-plagued memories. And sure enough, they recalled the events as described.

And the memory-battle with Schadle, where he admitted (with help) to gathering 'evidence' against the Coroner and had collaborated with others in order to cause this case to happen, was justified by Braun as being 'necessary to protect his deputies'. From what did they need protection, the Goldson homicide charge? or from what other possibility specifically that was not in view anywhere. Clearly if the 'outside' use of the grieving kin in BC deaths could be made to weaken the coroner's credibility, then the SO would have a credible chance to force (in court if necessary) the discrediting of the Coroner's opinion of 'homicide' at the Jail. What does it look like to you? To this writer, it certainly looks like the Sheriff's Office USED THE GRIEVING FAMILIES AS PAWNS. TO COVER THEIR OWN CRIMES, whether commission or negligence with complicity in covering it up. And if all was so calm between the SO and the previous coroner, including the jail house 'suicide' in 2011, what else was not too kosher in the Sheriff's administration of 'Justice' and 'Law'n'Order' when the prior coroner simply showed his face only when asked to by the SO. How much criminality is in progress at the SO, and likely not just at death scenes?

The only 'crime' that showed up as an error by the Coroner, was the posting of some documents at her website without proper redacting of the privacy matters. And as soon as the error was reported to her, she immediately had it fixed. And she acknowledged that error and apologized in court for the discomfort caused as her responsibility. This fine woman, had been chosen for high level responsible positions in the military, and done a stellar job, judging by her ascendence up the ranks from second lieutenant to being in charge of nearly three hundred staff in medical operations, stateside as well as oversees, and had in her early days seen action in Vietnam, tending troops in locations where there was active rocketfire. The comparison to the scurvy Sheriff and Chief Deputy is night and day. The only thing now is to await the decision to be formally written by Judge Kessler, who throughout the trial managed a credibly fact-finding focusing, and fair-handed operation, that hasn't been seen in Brown County in years. We don't suppose he'd like to come out of retirement and run here or we'd be elated.

Fine Oil and Clean Coal from Waste -- Trash into Treasure

Oil from all plastics, coal from garbage, ethanol ?

BRAVO!!!  now onto our local waste mountain-maker, namely Rumpke's and their current repugnant abuse of our local county's (Brown County's) citizen's right to have a future with a simple task of sorting your trash WHEN YOU PUT YOUR STUFF TO BE DISPOSED OF INTO THE RIGHT separate CAN/BAG..... 

Every bit of paper is already going in its own collecting bag, right!!! 

and metal DITTO, in its own bag, right!!! 

then it's only 2 more bags, one for ALL PLASTICS...

and the other for compostables to go into the composting BIN, with the household grease and pet excreta.. or (if you live in an apartment or don't do gardening) to bag for pickup!

And if we can defeat the Health Department (the traitors) with their evil ideas on sewage, we can have sustainably low tech composting toilets and be free to put them into service without the ungodly expense of blackwater mounds, ever again. Just use a GREYWATER CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS to get your own natural habitat benefits instead of the 'health' department's TOXIC septic tanks leaking.

And even in the city, the sewers would be hugely less trouble if households were greywater. And you can (with already existing systems) in the city and burbs, just convert the water toilets to bidets for improved hygiene, and add a simple composting lou (buckets if you're inclined like Joe Jenkins system), and it's LEGAL.. you'd even save on your water and sewer bill !

Here's the BRAVO news from FuelFix and Waste Management's creative genius CEO David Steiner:

Fuel Fix » Houston waste company turning trash into treasure

Posted on December 31, 2012 by EJ Grace LLC

A new plant in Oregon could help transform the waste industry with a remarkable new technology: Garbage goes in, oil comes out.

The business objective is to create new energy products out of waste and perhaps eventually eliminate the need for trash storage in landfills altogether, Waste Management CEO David Steiner said. Waste Management’s also investing in such technology as replacing coal with pellets made from garbage and converting trash into ethanol.

The company determined it could earn up to $15 billion a year if it could efficiently separate and resell the nearly 100 million tons of garbage it collects annually.

Waste Management licenses the plastics-to-oil technology, which it will put to work at the pilot plant in Portland, Ore.

Although the plant could utilize plastics taken out of everything from shrink wrap to yogurt containers, it will rely mainly on discarded material from local manufacturing plants, mostly wrap, sheeting and hard plastics like those found in toys.

Plastic is made largely from petroleum. By recovering that petroleum, the Portland plant is projected to produce about 75,000 barrels of oil a year. That is 29 times the rate of the average oil-producing well in Texas, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas.

[EACH such plant is equivalent to nearly 30 oil wells!!]



Substitute for coal

The company also owns the process for transforming garbage into pellets that could be used as a substitute for coal. Waste Management has a plant for the so-called SPEC fuel pellets in San Antonio and is building another plant in Philadelphia.

Caesar said the pellets can be burned by coal plants with a fraction of the emissions generated by coal.

Most waste companies have shied away from investing in conversion technology, instead focusing their cash on operational changes to cut costs and boost earnings, said analyst Barbara Noverini of the investment research firm Morningstar.



[Like Rumpke in our county!

We should give all these "most waste companies" with their lazy cowardly unimaginative CEOs a hint that they can either get an oil producing license themselves or we'll cancel their contract!

Dig into your own county's relationships.

Rumpke has a seat on the Board of Health and pays 'tipping fees' to the County Commissioners, officially, so the Health Department intercepts complaints (only one issued despite 6 years of agitating and evidence galore).

Meanwhile the OEPA conveniently closes its eyes and we pay the price for oil and electric when we could have better instead of the stinking, polluting, growing mountain as Rumpke imports massive amounts of waste from other counties who don't want the stuff either in their backyard. Time for a change.]