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Are Dirty Energy Opponents NIMBY? Proving Industry Wrong
It’s typical for energy developers facing community resistance to proposed facilities to try to discredit opponents by calling them NIMBY (Not in My Backyard), steering the argument away from health and environmental impacts to simply one of aesthetics. Corporate profiteers argue that local opposition doesn’t have a problem with a given energy technology itself — so long…
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EPA Proposal Classifies Wood Fuel from Construction, Demolition
[Biomass industry pushing for even less regulation of their dirtiest fuel source. -Ed.] – by Erin Voegele, March 27, 2014. Source: Biomass Magazine Biomass industry On March 27, the U.S. EPA released a proposed rule to amend its Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The NHSM rule was finalized in February…
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Nippon Temporarily Shut Down Because of Biomass Fuel Problems at Power Plant
– by Paul Gottlieb, February 27, 2014. Source: Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Fuel-system problems with Nippon Paper Industries USA’s newly expanded biomass cogeneration plant have caused a two-week shutdown of the mill, according to a union official. Darrel Reetz, vice president of the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers Local 155, said Thursday…
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