Liberty Energy leaves Hamilton with regret

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By Kevin Werner, News Staff

Any plans that California-based Liberty Energy had to establish an alternative energy facility in Hamilton are now on some forgotten shelf collecting dust.

After spending eight years and about $12 million to get city and provincial approval to use biomass materials to produce an alternative energy source for the city, Chief Executive Officer Wilson Nolan is in California now assisting Liberty Energy in operating a renewable bio-energy production facility in Lost Hills, 42 miles west-northwest of Bakersfield. Liberty Energy is owned by McCarthy Farms of Bakersfield.

I spent a lot of time inHamilton, said Nolan, during a recent telephone interview from California. I sure did put in a lot of time there. Its still a good place. I like the community, and there are a lot of wonderful people there.

Liberty Energy recalled Nolan from his Hamilton posting soon after council decided in February to eliminate the companys proposed Strathearne Avenue North gasification site from the citys public private partnership funding request to the federal government.

That decision ended Liberty Energys idea to build what was called a biosolids incineration plant in the industrial heartland of the city after enduring nearly eight years of jumping through environmental and bureaucratic hoops.

I thought Hamilton would be an excellent place (for an energy-from-waste plant), he said.

In 2009 Nolan presented to council an unsolicited proposal for a $110-million plant on Strathearne Avenue North. Since 2004, Nolan had become as ubiquitous a personality within the Hamilton community as one of its politicians, as he attempted to sell the community, and city hall, on the prospect of converting sewage sludge and other biomass products, such as grass clippings, and wood shavings into electricity through a low emission gasification process. The company hired former Progressive Conservative MPP Trevor Pettit to represent the company, conduct a community outreach program, and help it through the various governments bureaucratic briar patches.

The proposal would eventually, according to Liberty Energy, create about 10 mega-watts of energy to power 8,000 homes. The residue 70,000-tonnes of ash would also be used in other material such as mixing with cement. Liberty Energy officials stated.

But the great benefit, Liberty Energy officials argued, would be the elimination of the many trucks that transport the citys sludge across the area to dump the material onto farm land.

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Liberty pivots in ACA challenge

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RICHMOND, Va. Judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday appeared skeptical that Liberty University can challenge the Obama administrations rule that most employers provide contraceptives in their employee health plans.

But at least one of the judges suggested that the health reform laws employer mandate could be at risk since last years Supreme Court health care ruling narrowed the Commerce Clause.

In addition to saying that the health laws employer mandate is beyond Congresss legislative authority, Liberty University attorneys argued that Obamacares individual and employer mandates violate their religious freedoms. They say it requires the school to cover contraceptives and other drugs that they say can cause abortions.

Obama administration lawyers said Liberty didnt include that complaint about birth control in its original claim the suit was first filed in 2010 but was largely put on hold as the Supreme Court case against the health law advanced so the school cant add that argument now.

The judges suggested in several questions that they might agree, given that Liberty filed its claim years before the regulation was released.

This case is very different from the case you filed a couple years ago, said Judge Andre Davis, who was appointed by President Barack Obama.

Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver said the university had always raised concerns that the law would require abortion coverage. He said its a pressing issue as the school will be subject to millions of dollars in fines starting in August.

The hammer is about ready to fall on Liberty, he said.

Dozens of other institutions are challenging the birth control issue but did not file their suits until after the proposed regulations were released.

While the panel of judges suggested they might not even rule on the birth control issue, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, spent a significant amount of time pulling out of Justice Department lawyer Alisa Klein whether the preventive coverage provision requires all insurance plans to cover abortion and drugs that Liberty says can cause abortions.

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Libertarian frees up Derby odds with Yorkshire win

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He would not have the class, surely, or the speed. He isn't even the right shape. But the sudden squall of hail prompted by his success here suggested that Libertarian, if nothing else, will introduce due grit to the British Turf's greatest race. For his shock success in the trial that honours the North's last winner now 68 years ago plainly qualified this big, dour brute as a fitting ambassador for Yorkshire in the Investec Derby a fortnight tomorrow.

His performance in the Betfred Dante Stakes was hewn from a physique that already makes a serious issue of Tattenham Corner, even if you disregard his struggle for early rhythm over the wide open spaces of the Knavesmire. But Libertarian certainly deserves to take his chance for a yard that has succeeded where so many with deeper resources have failed, namely in producing a colt capable of holding off the Irish even in a trial.

As more fancied rivals fanned alongside each other in the long straight, seemingly in a collective quest for mediocrity, the 33-1 outsider gradually worked his way through the gears for William Buick until hitting the front a furlong out and grinding a little over a length clear of Trading Leather, with Indian Chief close up in third. So it was that Elaine Burke of Leyburn was able to relegate both the trainers who dominate the Derby picture, Jim Bolger and Aidan O'Brien, to lower tiers of the podium. In offering Libertarian at 25-1, from 100-1, Coral did not anticipate her doing the same at Epsom.

Together with her spouse and assistant, Karl, Elaine nonetheless warrants credit for persevering here with a colt who had beaten three rivals for a Pontefract maiden only last month, before being well beaten at Sandown.

"Sandown was a nonsense of a race for him," Karl explained. "Unfortunately Phil [Makin] got stuck outside a horse that was hanging badly and he drifted out. He's such a green horse, big and backward, which is why we came back today to give him more experience. Not having had many Derby horses, or Dante horses even, you are tilting at windmills at bit. So it's a great day for the yard, and everyone connected with the horse."

Even so, Bolger can seldom have been so gratified to finish second. The only thing the winner truly has in common with his unbeaten Derby favourite is their sire, New Approach. Ladbrokes now offer Dawn Approach at even money, from 5-4. Asked for his view of the trials, Bolger dryly avowed that the only ones that mattered had been run back home at Coolcullen.

Secret Number did nothing to salvage Godolphin from its present nightmare, toiling into sixth of eight, but at least fared better than Greatwood, who was never travelling. If one Highclere syndicate may now have to forget about the Derby, another clings to hope as Telescope responds to treatment for the setback that prevented him coming here. He is likely to test the water in a racecourse gallop next week.

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Dawn Approach hardens as Derby favourite after Libertarian Dante shock

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Friday, May 17, 2013

By Tom Peacock

Dawn Approach hardened as Derby favourite after 33-1 shot Libertarian won the Dante Stakes at York yesterday.

While Libertarian did not make much of an impact in the Investec Derby market, the man allowed to smile widely was Jim Bolger, who saddled Trading Leather for second but now sees his unbeaten 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach as short as even-money favourite with many bookmakers.

Libertarian has always been held in high regard and showed rich promise when landing a maiden on his debut at Pontefract last month, but he would have been largely ignored due to finishing only fourth in the Sandown Classic Trial, when admittedly unlucky.

Dashing Star cut out the running with Trading Leather on his tail but the race, which has seen nine winners progress to Epsom glory, was still to develop in earnest by the two-furlong pole.

With Aidan OBrien pocketing every Derby warm-up of the last fortnight, Indian Chief was the 11-4 favourite, but the trainers son Joseph did not receive an immediate response when he had found some space and was passed by Libertarian and William Buick on his inside.

Buick had been one of the first to start pushing but his mount ended up forging a length and a quarter clear of the plucky Trading Leather, with Indian Chief three-quarters of a length further back in third.

It is a great win for the yard and everyone connected with the horse, said Karl Burke.

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