Pollution from these facilities blows into this region causing health problems for thousands of New England residents, the governors have argued. King should first turn his attention to Wyman Station, an oil-fired plant on Cousins Island owned by FPL Energy, said Ned Rendall, a retired doctor who lives in Blue Hill. He served on the BEP for four years in the late 1980s. It is only fair that we clean up our power plants that are dirty before they clean up theirs, Rendall said at a press conference on the banks of the Penobscot River in Bangor organized by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. According to figures from the EPA, nitrogen oxide emission from Wyman Station, which is operational only when demand for power is at a peak, have increased by 257 percent in the last four years.
Nitrogen oxide is a component of ozone.
Recently, the state Department of Environmental Protection said 90 percent of Maine s air pollution comes from out of state. EPA officials have disputed that figure. To FPL, we have a simple message, said Brownie Carson, executive director of NRCM Tuesday. Enough is enough. Clean up that power plant.