Category: Blog entry
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Massachusetts Grants Millions to Biomass Industry
[Millions of taxpayer dollars go to polluting biomass incineration under the guise of “clean” energy. -Ed.] – by Anna Simet, June 5, 2014, Biomass Magazine Massachusetts has dedicated $3.5 million to nine renewable thermal projects in the state through a new grant program, the Massachusetts Renewable Thermal Business Investment Financing Program. Funds for the program are…
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Cutting the Trees We Need to Save the Forest
– by Bob Berwyn, July 7, 2014, The Colorado Independent Even here, in a cool forest hollow near Tenmile Creek, you can feel the tom-toms. It’s a distant beat, born in the marbled halls of Congress, where political forces blow an ill wind across Colorado’s forests. Nearly every Western elected official with a clump of shrubby…
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Shuttered Texas Biomass Incinerator to Reopen
– June 23, 2014, Bioenergy Insight InventivEnergy, an asset management firm, has selected NRG Energy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, to restart the Aspen Power biomass plant located in Lufkin, Texas. NRG will also operate and maintain the facility once it resumes operation. The plant first opened in August 2011 and was the…
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Activists Shut Down Seneca Biomass Incinerator in Eugene, Oregon
– by Cascadia Forest Defenders, July 7, 2014, Forest Defense Now Scores of activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders and Earth First! converged on the Seneca Jones biomass plant this morning to protest the company’s privatization of public lands in the Elliott State Forest and ongoing pollution in West Eugene. Currently several people have locked themselves to…
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July issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity
Are you ready for the July issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now?! -“Why Solidarity is Needed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters“ -“The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity” -“Cowardly Climate Report Urges Business as Usual“ …and more!!! Please share the July 2014 issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and…
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Correction to our Latest Newsletter on Methane
In our latest Energy Justice Now newsletter, we wrote that “methane is now known to be 86 to 105 worse than CO2 over a 20-year time-frame.” That should have said 86 to 105 times worse. This is now corrected in the full article. For documentation on this, see our natural gas page. Not subscribed? Sign up on our sidebar. Thanks!
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VICTORY: NYC Trash Train Plan Derailed in Chester, PA
We’ve been supporting the Chester Environmental Justice group to “derail” plans to send 500,000 tons/year of trash from the richest part of New York City by train to be burned in the low-income, 75% black City of Chester, near Philadelphia, PA. The plan would fulfill a contract Covanta has with New York City to burn this waste…
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Natural Gas + Ethanol = Explosion
– by Larry Phillips, June 30, 2014, Leader and Times academized.com Leader & Times Online Firefighters responded to an explosion Sunday evening at Conestoga Energy’s Arkalon Ethanol Plant. Fortunately, no one was injured from the blast or subsequent fire, according to Seward County Fire Chief Mike Rice. “We got the page at 7:04 p.m. (Sunday) about…
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The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity
After a decade of grassroots advocacy, my personal belief is that the greatest obstacle to positive change in the world isn’t corporations, the government, or the 1%, but lack of movement solidarity. And no, I’m not pretending to be some modern day Moses bringing the divine truths down from the mountain. I’m just someone who…
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Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule
– by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Biomass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the U.S. EPA’s Tailoring Rule. While the court invalidated a portion of the rule, it essentially held up EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for certain facilities, specifically those required to obtain a Prevention…
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