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Electronic Map Tracks Logging for Biomass Energy
Electronic Map Tracks Logging for Biomass Energy The first and only electronic map tracking logging sites sourcing wood to a biomass energy facility has been released by Energy Justice Network, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization with field offices in Vermont, Pennsylvania and Oregon and Biofuelwatch, an international organization based in Vermont and the UK. McNeil Biomass Incinerator The…
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Report: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage a Mistake
A new report by Rachel Smolker and Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch condemns carbon capture and storage (CCS) as setting the stage for increased burning of climate-busting biomass and fossil fuels for energy, in effect keeping us from looking at the way the way we produce—and consume—energy. BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage): Climate saviour or dangerous…
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A “Sustainable” Military?
– by Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch In December 2012, the U.S. Senate voted to strike language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have limited military use of biofuels by requiring that they only purchase biofuels at costs comparable to petroleum fuels. Further, they amended the bill to allow defense spending on refinery construction, previously prohibited. That…
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