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Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel
– by Kevin Murphy, February 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Daily Herald wausaudailyherald The recently built power plant at Domtar paper mill is getting only 10 percent of its fuel from logging waste, which originally was supposed to supply nearly all of the plant’s energy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 million power plant went online in November to provide steam for Domtar’s…
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DTE Energy: Black Soot Irks Residents of Cassville, Wisconsin
– by Jeff Montgomery, March 22, 2014. Source: THOnline.com bloximagesnewyork CASSVILLE, Wis. – Linda Hulst said she began noticing the soot shortly after a nearby biomass plant started operations. For three years, the black, charcoal-like matter has sprinkled her property. “Every fresh snow is covered with it,” she said. “It gets on our deck, on our furniture, on the…
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Some Biofuel Feedstock Estimates ‘Overstating’ Yields
– March 4, 2014. Source: Environmental Leader Estimates for potential biofuel feedstock crop yields from some widely cited research studies may overstate those yields by as much as 100 percent, according to research by the International Council on Clean Transportation. One key factor in developing a sustainable biofuels policy is to realistically estimate the amount of biomass that can…
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Group Descries Logging in Northampton, MA Watershed
– by Rebecca Everett, March 17, 2014. Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Chris Matera of Northampton said he was driving through Whately to go skiing two weeks ago when he noticed piles of fresh-cut logs at the mouth of a trail into a forest. “I said, ‘Wait, isn’t that the watershed?,’” he recalled recently. Matera, who heads…
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Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints
– by Phil Ciciora, March 5, 2014. Source: University of Illinois News Office Debates surrounding the sustainability of bioenergy have emerged in recent years relating to water quality and quantity, and those debates will only grow louder as big urban areas in the U.S. start running out of water and environmental groups and the Environmental Protection…
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Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints
– 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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Biofuel Producer Warns of Default, Bankruptcy
– by Christopher Martin, March 18, 2014. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek [Read more about Khosla: Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand -Ed.] Kior Inc. (KIOR:US), the Vinod Khosla-backed operator of the first U.S. commercial-scale cellulosic biofuel plant, fell the most on record after management told regulators they have serious doubts about staying in business. Kior declined 41 percent to 63 cents…
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Genetically Engineered Trees as Biofuel Feedstock
[Now that corn ethanol has fallen out of favor politically, the bioenergy industry will be focusing more and more on forests.] – by Alex Maragos, November 28, 2014, WLFI Ethanol made from corn already powers millions of cars and trucks on the road, but a group of researchers at Purdue University wants to make biofuel better.…
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220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally…
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