July 13, 2021

By email: Anthony.Luisi@dec.ny.gov

Dear Mr. Luisi,

It has come to our attention that a resident of Saratoga Sites who is on a crusade against Norlite is
again misusing public resources with baseless allegations and claims that are wholly unsupported
by facts or data. We hope you will give it the attention it deserves.

This time, the allegation contained in a letter dated July 12 is of a “smelly mist,” which we imagine
the DEC’s very diligent and attentive on-site monitor would have noticed in the course of his
duties, and questions about the water we are using for dust suppression, which as you know is
regulated by the terms of our SPDES permits. Obviously, no one is drinking this water, and to draw
a connection between water that is consumed and mist that is dispersed in the air is, to put it
charitably, uninformed.

This resident appears to inhabit a world where opinions are substituted for facts and science is
useful only to the extent that it advances a particular agenda. To use his phrase, it is deeply
disturbing the extent to which activists are willing to ignore science, technology and evidence to
advance their claims and willingly put at risk the jobs of 70 people based on nothing but their
agenda and their opposition to combustion as a means of energy recovery and waste destruction.
We hope you see through these tactics, and are confident that the DEC will continue its oversight
of Norlite and its review of our environmental permit renewals based on science, data, technology
and performance, as the law requires.

We are proud of the products and services we provide, of the investments we have made in
environmental technology, and of our role in helping to safely manage and extract the energy
value from wastes as we are destroying them.

Norlite is accountable. Are our detractors?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Jeff Beswick
US Chief Executive Officer

Tradebe Environmental Services, LLC

1433 E. 83rd Ave • Merrillville, IN 46410 • Phone: (800) 388-7242 • (219) 397-3951 • Fax: (219) 769-6080 • www.tradebe.com
cc: Assemblymember John McDonald
Senator Neil Breslin
Basil Seggos, DEC Commissioner
Sean Mahar, DEC Chief of Staff
Mayor William Keeler

Tradebe Environmental Services, LLC

1433 E. 83rd Ave • Merrillville, IN 46410 • Phone: (800) 388-7242 • (219) 397-3951 • Fax: (219) 769-6080 • www.tradebe.com