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Three Injured in Canada Wood Pellet Plant Explosion
– October 14, 2014, Bioenergy Insight An explosion at Pinnacle Renewable Energy’s wood pellet plant in British Columbia injured three and resulted in around 30 employees being evacuated. The incident happened on 9 October after a fire broke out inside equipment used to dry wood fibre. The plant’s built-in suppression system had already extinguished the flames…
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Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice NetworkOctober 2014 Sometimes, environmental movement campaigns that become very popular aren’t the ones that are the most strategic. Trying to divert the fossil fuel divestment bandwagon to a better path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some critical examination is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we don’t…
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Biomass Incinerator a Threat to Children
– by Norma Kreilein, MD, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics [The biomass facility proposed for Jasper, Indiana referred to in this letter was canceled this year thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kreilein and Healthy Dubois County –Ed.] I am writing as a concerned pediatrician in Southern Indiana. We live in the heart of…
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