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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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