Category: Blog entry
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Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited
– April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake formerly owned by Minnesota Energy is in the process of correcting water and air quality permit violations, and must pay a $10,000 civil penalty, according to an agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). In October 2012, Renville County officials…
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A New Kind of Pipeline…for CO2?
[Pipelines aren’t just for fossil fuels anymore. -Ed.] – by Russell Hubbard, April 12, 2014. Source: Omaha World-Herald A Wyoming oil company told Nebraska ethanol producers Friday that a $1 billion carbon dioxide pipeline across the state would mean up to $50 million a year in new revenue for them. Scott Hornafius, president of Elk Petroleum,…
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Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia
– Rachel Brighton, October 10, 2014, The Chronicle Herald [More evidence of biomass energy competing for limited wood source.] Opening up long-term access to western Crown lands will relieve some of the pressure that has been building in the forestry sector this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and manufacturers had been granted…
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Bioenergy Pipelines?
– August 14, 2014, Waste Management World [The latest bad idea coming out of the polluting bioenergy industry.] A scientist at the University of Alberta, Canada is research to determine whether it’s effective to use pipelines to transport agricultural waste used in biofuels. According to the university, Mahdi Vaezi, a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering,…
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Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington
– by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…
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Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents
Since 1999, Energy Justice Network has worked with communities across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty energy facility — from coal and natural-gas fired plants, to nuclear reactors, to biomass and trash incinerators — to protect human health and the natural world that keeps us alive. While countless pollution pushers have been run…
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Money-burning Incinerator Proposed
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! April 1, 2014 DUNBORO – George Washington Renewable Energy is proposing the nation’s first money-to-energy facility, right here in Dunboro. Critics call it a money-burning incinerator. Nearly all of the nation’s used money is sent to landfills, but George Washington Renewable Energy sees an opportunity and hopes to generate enough electricity burning…
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NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! – by Fiske Sterling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miskatonic University in Rhode Island has concluded that air pollution, specifically particulate matter, can repair damaged lung tissue. The scientific consensus up until this point had been that particulate matter — the byproduct of combustion from…
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Maryland Dumps Incineration
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network VICTORY!! For a second year in a row, pro-incinerator legislation in Maryland was defeated. This stealthy legislation was written by Covanta (the nation’s largest trash incineration company) and would put Maryland on the path to burning nearly all of the waste that isn’t recycled. The legislation takes the Renewable Portfolio…
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EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision
– by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Environment Reporter The Environmental Appeals Board partially remanded an air pollution permit for a waste-to-energy facility in Puerto Rico after it failed to account for greenhouse gas emissions from biomass. The Energy Answers Arecibo LLC permit is one of the first to address emissions from biomass in the wake of…
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