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Gypsum, CO Biomass Incinerator Still Off-Line After December Fire
– by Scott Miller, March 22, 2015, Post Independent A plant that generates electricity by burning beetle-killed wood had only been operating for a few months when a December fire badly damaged the facility’s conveyor system. The plant has been closed since, and will probably remain closed until summer. The plant, built by Provo, Utah-based Eagle…
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State of Illinois Settles Ethanol Spill Fish Kill Case
– by Pam Eggemeier, March 5, 2015, Sauk Valley A settlement has been reached with a railroad company responsible for an ethanol spill that caused a significant fish kill in the Rock River nearly 6 years ago, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office announced Thursday. In June 2009, a Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad train derailed in…
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Kauai Biomass Facility to Get Fuel from Burned Forest
– by Chris D’Angelo, March 5, 2015, The Garden Island It is unlike any other logging operation in Hawaii’s history. And the $90 million biomass-to-energy facility the logs are destined for is as unique as the project itself, state officials say. “This is the largest operation that we’ve had,” said Lisa Hadway, administrator of the state…
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