A Texas district court this week issued a temporary injunction against a wind turbine recycling company that stores thousands of wind turbine blades at two facilities in Sweetwater.
The temporary injunction orders Global Fiberglass Solutions to immediately stop accepting shipments of wind turbine blades and to remove all blades over the next two years. The company must deposit at least $3.5 million as financial guarantee with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) within 30 days.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Global in February, saying it failed to dispose of the waste and instead stockpiled about 3,000 blades. The lawsuit seeks severe civil penalties.
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Under the temporary injunction, Global must obtain a permit from TCEQ to machine the blades at the factory and then machine and remove the blades. Half of the blades must be removed within 365 days of the temporary injunction, and all blades must be removed within 550 days.
“These illegal sites will not accept new wind turbine blade shipments, and now the defendants are legally required to begin cleaning up the thousands of discarded blades they irresponsibly abandoned in Sweetwater,” Paxton said in a statement. “We will not allow Texas land to be used as an illegal dump.”
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