Mount Herron Power Station being Decommissioned

Following the faltering operation of the Mount Herron Power Station bio-energy project, built by Mt Herron Engineering on Klaus Pesch's property in Western Australia

http://exteammembers.blogspot.com/2008/10/mount-herron-engineering-in.html

Mt Herron Engineering

Site Environmental Remediation Services has been engaged by the reciever Taylor Woodings to decommission a proposed biomass power generation station south of the Dawsville Cut in Mandurah. The site is sensitive in nature due to previous activities and SERS on all fronts has worked in with the Dept Environment & Conservation to appease all vested parties to a positive outcome as is in the interests of the encumbered.

Works have involved the management and disposal under DEC oversight of 1.5m litres of off milk and orange juice as a biowaste product.

http://sers.net.au/?page=current-projects

Comment:

Accounts of the decommissioning of the Mount Herron Power station reaching this blog have included stories of government employees and contractors appointed by the administrators being intimidated and verbally abused as they attempted to complete their work at the power station site.

It would appear that Pesch family members and staff onsite lost all manner of self control and became so threatening in their behaviour that an auditor needed three security guards to escort him at all times so he could complete his review of the plant and equipment.

Accounts state that the Pesch family attempted to lock contractors into the power station site as they attempted to remove the 1.5 million litres of digester waste and that threats of physical violence were made, also that the Pesch’s have deliberately contaminated the site ground soil with bio-waste to complicate a possible repossession of the property.

The directors of Mount Herron Engineering have in the last three months negotiated an agreed settlement with the administrators and project financiers and are again in control of the facility, however, after recent events on site it will be interesting to see if the Department of Conservation can justify allowing a continuation of the prescribed premises license needed to maintain the operation of the Mount Herron Power Station either as a waste disposal facility or a power generator.

Before retiring as administrators Taylor Wooding have concluded that there are no funds available within Mount Herron Engineering to satisfy outstanding debts to contractors dating back as far as 2006.