Category: Blog entry
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Garbage In, Garbage Out – by Mercedes Brugh One of the unanswered questions about the pyrolyzation garbage-to-electricity proposal for Logansport, Indiana has been about emissions. No proof has been offered about emissions. We have been told that the Pyrolyzer plant will have to follow the “strictest emissions rules,” but that is no comfort. Indiana consistently ranks among…
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Facts Needed on Penrose, NC Biomass Proposal
– by Rick and Jeannie Falknor Transylvania County residents deserve all the facts about the proposed biofuel plant at the airport site in Penrose [North Carolina], especially the negative impacts such a business can have on our county. First, biomass power generation is a dirty industry. According to a Wall Street Journal-cited study conducted in early…
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Report: Tree Plantations in the South to Generate Energy in the North
Report: Tree Plantations in the South to Generate Energy in the North -by Rachel Smolker It is always helpful to hear the perspective of people in the “global south,” especially when it is their land in the tropics that is so often targeted as a source of biomass energy for the “north.” World Rainforest Movement (WRM) has…
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An Anti-Biomass Movement Beyond Borders
– Energy Justice Network [graphic: Steve Adams Illustration] The grassroots biomass resistance has come a long way over the years and it’s growing stronger every day. A mere five years ago few people even questioned the logic of classifying polluting biomass energy alongside smokestack-free energy sources like solar and wind. Most environmental groups hailed bioenergy as…
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Biomass Moratorium for Brevard County, North Carolina
Biomass Moratorium for Brevard County, North Carolina – by Kimberly King, August 2, 2013. Source: WLOS Monday night at the Brevard county courthouse the gallery broke in in raucous applause after Transylvania Commissioners voted for a one-year moratorium that effectively stopped plans for a Biomass plant on private property in Penrose at the airport. “They listened to…
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Report: “Unintended Consequences” from Biomass Boom
Report: “Unintended Consequences” from Biomass Boom – by Josh Schlossberg Add another one to the stack of studies shattering the biomass industry’s illusion of carbon neutrality. One would assume that the scientific community’s repeated debunking of the alleged climate benefits of biomass would already have knocked the polluting energy source off its “green” pedestal.…
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Campaigners Challenge Environment Agency
Campaigners Challenge Environment Agency – by The Breathe Clean Air Group Trafford, UK-based Breathe Clean Air Group has challenged the Environment Agency over a serious irregularity in issuing the controversial Barton Renewable Energy Plant in Greater Manchester, with an Environmental Permit. Group Chairman Pete Kilvert has written to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles claiming that the Environment…
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Biomass Energy: Dirty and Unsustainable
Biomass Energy: Dirty and Unsustainable – by Ron Zeller President Obama’s continuing “all-out, all-in, all-of-the-above” energy strategy still supports biomass energy development despite its increasingly obvious problems, numerous abandoned facilities, and public rejection. An asserted need to reduce America’s reliance on imported oil is frequently cited in arguments made for funding projects which are otherwise…
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Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand?
Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand? The good news is that the cellulosic ethanol industry—turning trees and woody plants into liquid fuels—has yet to take off. And without an endless stream of taxpayer handouts to develop this polluting and environmentally destructive energy source, it probably never will. Under the guise of taking action on climate change,…
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VICTORY against Maryland’s “Waste Portfolio Standard” — the Latest Creative Way to Prop Up Incinerators
– by Mike Ewall What does an incinerator industry do when they can’t compete? Change the rules. Biomass and trash incinerators are the most expensive way to make energy, and trash incineration costs more than directly landfilling the waste. These industries survive to the extent that they can change the rules to get monopoly waste contracts, become ‘renewable’ energy…
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