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Syracuse City Council Seeks Alternatives to Incineration
– by Tim Knauss, March 2, 2015, Syracuse.com The city council today voted against a 20-year extension of Syracuse’s garbage disposal contract with the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency, citing a desire to pursue alternatives to trash incineration. Syracuse remains obligated under its existing contract to haul waste to OCCRA’s trash plant near Jamesville through June…
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BLM Plan to Convert Nevada’s Pinyon Forests to Biomass Threatens Ancient Rituals
– by Lisa Gale Garrigues, Indian Country Today Media Network For centuries the pinyon trees of Nevada have nourished the Shoshone, Paiute and other peoples, giving them pine nuts, ingredients for soup, milk and even a place to pray. Now it is about to become something else: a profitable source of biomass. The Pinyon-Juniper Partnership, a consortium…
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Local Opposition Affects Oregon Biofuel Plant
– by Al Maiorino, March 3, 2015, Environmental Leader In 2014, the United States Departments of the Navy, Energy and Agriculture awarded a $70 million grant to Red Rock Biofuels for the design, construction, commissioning and performance testing of a new biofuel refinery. The biorefinery is planned for Lakeview, Oregon, close to the Fremont Nation Forest…
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Firing Up Hawaiian Biomass Facility
– by Chris D’Angelo, February 11, 2015, The Garden Island Green Energy Team, LLC’s $90 million biomass-to-energy facility in Koloa is now hot. “They lit the boiler and have started making steam,” said Kauai Island Utility Cooperative spokesman Jim Kelly, who is handling press inquiries for GET. “For the next probably three to four weeks, they’re…
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Contaminated Love Canal Soil Going to Nebraska Incinerator
– by Richard Piersol, March 1, 2015, Lincoln Journal Star About a thousand tons of contaminated soil from the notorious Love Canal environmental disaster in New York is being shipped by rail to Kimball for incineration because the company that is disposing of it ran into objections from Canadians, who didn’t want it. Love Canal, a…
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U.S. Added 254 Megawatts of Biomass Energy in 2014
– by Erin Voegele, February 6, 2015 Biomass Magazine The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects has released the December edition of its Energy Infrastructure Update, reporting the U.S. added 254 MW of biomass energy capacity last year. In December, the U.S. added five biomass generating units with a combined capacity of 23 MW.…
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Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy
– by Roy Keene The debate over a single wood powered electrical generator in Eugene has been myopically focused on just one project and one proposed fuel source. Supporters for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s proposed power plant have yet to publicly mention that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that…
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What a 20-year Biomass Battle Tells Us About Environmental Justice Policy
– by Brentin Mock, February 24, 2015, Grist It’s well-established that the Environmental Protection Agency has been quite flaccid when it comes to enforcing civil rights issues. The online news outlet E&E recently took the time to remind us how bad it is last week, reporting from Flint, Mich., where environmental justice complaints about a biomass energy plant built…
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Canadian Incineration Presentation
Report on incinerator presentation before conference of Canadian municipal officialsby Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network & Zero Waste Canada On Feb 12th, 2015, I presented at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Sustainable Communities Conference in London, Ontario. It was the first time they held a panel to present both sides of a polarized issue. The…
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One Bin for All?
– by Melanie Scruggs, Texas Campaign for the Environment Right now, the City of Houston is expanding its two-bin or “single-stream” recycling program to finally cover all the nearly 350,000 homes that it services. As an avid zero waster, you may be thinking two things: 1. It is fantastic that Houstonians finally have access to a…
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