Category: Blog entry
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How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets
How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets – by Glenn Hurowitz, June 28, 2013. Source: Grist As the global leader of climate action, European governments want to know how President Obama’s major climate speech affects Europe – and particularly whether the actions he outlined can allow the United States to reach its commitment to reduce…
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E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster
E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster In a misguided attempt to allegedly tackle runaway climate change, the European Union (E.U.) is implementing policy that would increase carbon dioxide emissions, displace native peoples, threaten public health, and degrade forests and watersheds. A new report, A Foreseeable Disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab,…
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Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Government agencies and policymakers have long turned a deaf ear to concerns with human health threats from biomass incineration. A new experimental study underway on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula may ultimately compel elected officials to act to protect public health from biomass incineration, while serving as a model…
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How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator
How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator – by People for Clean Mountains On July 22, 2013 the Transylvania County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to enact a one year moratorium on the development and permitting of any biomass facility producing any output. This was the culmination of four months of effort by the citizens…
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Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration
Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration – by Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced plans to allow native forests to be logged and burnt for electricity generation. Removing a ban on burning native forest wood for electricity would give a green light for the…
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Great news about Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor
Congratulations to Citizens Awareness Network and NIRS! Vermont Yankee is finally scheduled to close next year.
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Biomass Carpetbaggers
Biomass Carpetbaggers – by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder If Editor Blagg’s pro-biomass column was a meal I’d say it was a thin gruel of tainted leftovers along with a fruit salad loaded with sour grapes. Leaving the dinner table, we stumble onto “carpetbaggers” who Mr. Blagg identifies with the anti-biomass folks. If you…
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New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout
New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hudson News Network The Taylor Biomass waste-to-energy project has had the support of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, since his candidacy for Congress last year. The Orange County facility is awaiting a $100 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy…
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Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City
Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City – by Christopher Curry, August 15, 2013. Source: The Gainesville Sun The biomass plant company has sent Gainesville its terms for dropping a $50 million arbitration counterclaim and some city officials say the terms are unacceptable. The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center seeks no money to settle. Instead,…
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Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner
Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner – by Warren Johnston, August 11, 2013. Source: Valley News [For more information on this facility please read “Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand“] Mascoma Corp., the Lebanon-based developer of cutting-edge biofuels technology, has lost its major partner in a proposed $233 million ethanol plant in Michigan. Although Mascoma did not…
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