Transcript Crawford_PassamaquoddyClimateChg_w_notes.ppt

Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant
Point
Sustainability Projects
Steve Crawford
Environmental Director
NTF JUNE 14-16, 2011
Chair, USET Natural Resource Committee
NTWC
NTC
TEPAC
National Ocean Council Governance Committee
ONR
NTTC
ST3C, etc
Sustainable/Climate Change
• Sustainable communities initiative
– Inter-agency funding
– EPA EJ grants: Sustainable Communities,
Healthy communities
– USDA
– HUD
– Private funding
– Council agrees to sustainable community
development; resistance to climate change
plans
Adaptation
• Climate change adaptation plan
• T-FERST
• U-VC
Tribal-Focused Exposure, Risk, and
Sustainability Tool: T-FERST and Pleasant
Point Passamaquoddy Pilot
Valery Zartarian, Ken Bailey, Andrew Geller
US EPA Office of Research & Development
What is T-FERST?
The Tribal-Focused Exposure, Risk, and Sustainability Tool (TFERST) is being developed as a web-based environmental decision
support tool for building sustainable and healthy tribes.
 It will serve as
 a geospatial research framework and developmental platform to empower
tribes with best available human health and ecological science
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Background
• Tribes face unique environmental challenges, and seek
accessible tools for assessing issues, data, and solutions
• T-FERST concept originated from discussions at tribal session of
2009 EPA cumulative risk workshop, and ORD’s C-FERST
(www.epa.gov/heasd/c-ferst)
Aligning EPA Research & Needs To Advance the
Science & Practice of Cumulative Risk Assessment
• Tribal-specific sampling
strategies
• Representative dietary data
collection
• Physical and spiritual health
• Relevant exposure pathways
• Relevant activity data
• Critical ecological services
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Planned Products of T-FERST
Project
Draft T-FERST Tribal Data Inventory
• National tribal data inventory being compiled by EPA OCSPP and
ORD
– EPA and other Federal databases
– data available from EPA tribal projects
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weblinks to agencies, programs, websites
weblinks to and summary of data viewing and interpretation tools
weblinks on priority tribal environmental issues (e.g., fact sheets)
summaries on tribal EPA Projects conducted, and available data
guidance documents
• Information compiled can be discussed, considered, and
collected for inclusion in T-FERST
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Planned Products of T-FERST
Project
Tribal science & information that can be
included in T-FERST
– fish consumption modeling results to inform meal sizes, fish types to
avoid
– cumulative tribal risk/well-being estimates, reflecting unique
pathways and culture
– geospatial maps displaying data on human health risks, ecological
risks, ecosystem services, and other tribal assets and vulnerabilities
– development of a tribally-focused sustainability methodology,
focusing on solutions and initiated with a solid waste case study in
PPP ME tribe
– tribal-focused fact sheets, weblinks, data collection methods, tribal
indicator data tables, guidance etc. to support tribal assessments
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Part II: Initial T-FERST Project
http://www.wabanaki.com/location_map.htm
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Initial Pilot Approach
 Elicit tribal environmental issues and questions of
concern; identify indicators of interest and available data
sources
– What local data are available for priority issues?
– What EPA and other databases are available for priority issues?
– What information can be used to support the Passamaquoddy pilot, and
what information can go in T-FERST?
 Assess needs and options for data collection, analysis,
modeling, mapping, research
– What data can be shared in a publically-accessible Web-based decision
tool, and what data should not be shared?
– What research or science (human health and ecological) is needed to fill in
gaps for issues of concern?
– How can sustainability methods be incorporated? linkage w/ U-VC efforts?
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Initial Pilot Approach
 Collaboratively design, populate, and pilot the T-FERST
prototype to support the tribe’s needs
– What should the user interface look like? How to revised the prototype TFERST interface based on tribal input?
– How can we populate the tool with relevant tribal-specific data, weblinks,
fact sheets, data, maps, guidance, best practices, other information
(considering confidentiality)?
– How can we develop and apply T-FERST to answer questions of interest to
the tribe?
 Generate T-FERST reports and communicate findings
 How to best provide results and convey accessible information to answer
questions of interest for priority tribal environmental issues?
 How to refine the tool and assess lessons learned for future pilots?
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Passamaquoddy Environmental
Issues of Concern
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Health: mortality, asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer
Indoor air: smoking, wood stoves, radon, mold, poor “home
management”
Ambient air pollution
Subsistence diets: heavy metals, dioxins, mercury exposures
Solid waste management
Water quality: nonpoint source pollution in Tribal wetlands, drinking
water
Energy: home energy (solar/green homes), energy self-sufficiency
Climate change: rising sea levels, beach erosion
Softwood forestry converting to hardwoods; sugar maples adversely
impacted
Acidification of ocean and impacts on shellfish
Impacts on NorthEast Blueberry Co (NEBCO) being invaded by
southern grasses and insects
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Example Climate Change Modeling Results for T-FERST Consideration
preliminary EPA ORD SLAMM (Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model) predictions
 One possible future
 Tidal marshes are among the most
susceptible ecosystems to climate
change, especially accelerated sea
level rise (SLR)
 SLAMM simulates processes involved
in wetland and shoreline changes
during long-term sea level rise (up to yr
2100)
 Uses data layers from USGS, NWI
(national wetlands inventory), national
land cover data,
 Tide inputs from NOAA Station (Eastport,
ME)
 SLAMM default erosion and accretion
rates
 local data would be more accurate
NOTE: Model inputs and results can be refined.
Maps are about 3 miles x 3 miles, Projection UTM Zone 19
Modeling by EPA/ORD C. Erickson and D. Heggem
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Fish consumption advisories and %Tribal population below
poverty level
Dietary exposure modeling, with local fish
tissue concentrations and tribal fish
consumption data as inputs, can inform tribal
risk reduction decisions.
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T-FERST can allow mapping user-specified, locallyheld tribal data
(without necessarily adding to EPA database or sharing
data outside tribe).
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Project Timeline
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June 2011: T-FERST prototype presented at annual TSC mtg; tribes will
have access to provide feedback on tool design, mapping, and
information needs; status and next steps for PPP pilot (Phase 1) project
will be discussed
September 2011: feedback from stakeholders and partners will be
compiled and prioritized (based on available resources) to plan version
1; progress on Phase 1 pilot will continue
June 2012: Phase 1 pilot and progress toward T-FERST version 1 will
be presented at annual Tribal Science Forum; Phase 2 pilot(s) will be
discussed, based on available resources
September 2012: feedback from Phase 2 pilot(s) will be incorporated;
T-FERST version 1 will be completed
June 2013: Phase 2 pilot(s) and progress toward T-FERST version 2
will be presented at annual Tribal Science Forum
September 2013: feedback from pilots will be incorporated; T-FERST
version 2 will be completed; future versions and tribal applications of TFERST will be discussed
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U-VC/Passamaquoddy Projects
• T-FERST
• Small –scale hydro-kinetic project (BIA,
University of Maine at Orono, DOE)
• Community Solid-waste study, IHS-EPA
grant
• Waste-to-energy
• Exploring formation of a Tribal sustainable
community renewable energy resource
center.
Mitigation
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Solar Power
Photo-voltaics
Geothermal
Weatherization and RGGI
Algae biomass
Windpower
Tidal power
Waste to energy Project
Woodstove Exchange
RREAL
• Rural Renewable Energy Alliance
– Jay Edens Director
– Non-profit , based in Minneapolis
– Turn key production facility to produce solar panels
for less than $1,500 for 4 x 10 ft panels
• Generate enough heat to reduce heating bills 25%
• Much better than LIHEAP
– Production facility employs 2 people, in 20’x 20’
– Tribe may be able to access RGGI funds for
development
– Passamaquoddy Development and Supply
Solar Panel and Wind Turbine on Tribal
Home (Installed by Tribal Members)
Algae Biomass Potential
• “ There is no other resource that Comes even
close in magnitude to the potential for making
oil”
John Sheehan, energy analyst, National
Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), DOE, Golden,
CO
• Corn, 18 gal/acre: Algae, 5,000
• Lipid content, Corn <2%, Chlorella Alga, 44
• 20000 gal of algal culture = 300 gal biodiesel
– Harvest every 4 days, 1,000 gal bioreactor yields 300
gal biodiesel every 20 weeks.
True Cost of Oil
• $65 Billion/year government subsidies to US oil
co.
• $672 Billion/yr added health care costs
• $113 Billion air/water pollution
• $6 Billion crop damages
• $6.00 added to price of every gal of oil is actual
price – approx. $9/gallon
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Source: Tamminen, 2008, lives per gallon: the true cost of our oil addiction,
pg 61
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Sipayik 100-Gal Bio-Reactor Sewage
Treatment Plant (250 ML/4 day)
Greenhouse and Bio-Reactors
2000 Gal Bio-Reactor
WINDPOWER SITES
Wind power
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Wind power
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Windpower
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GEOTHERMAL, HYDROKINETIC
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Municipal Solid Waste Gasification
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Not incineration
Reduce volume
Recycle metal and glass
Recover energy
– By-products: syn-gas, water, fly ash, glass,
metals
– Very little CO2
– Tipping fees approx. $40-50/ton
MSW Gasification (2)
• Proven Technology, with plants being used
since 1992 by US Navy, Canadian
Department of Defense, numerous
different markets and site locations around
the world and in the US.
• 50 Ton plant =200 ft x 85 ft x 30 ft building,
greenhouse is extra
2-Ton/Day, 75 KW/day ($600)
Waste/Energy (SYNGAS)