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Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including Biomass Incinerators
Baby back ribs aren’t the only things being cooked in Texas nowadays. With the Nacogdoches Generating Facility firing up for the first time in July—at 100 megawatts, it’s one of the largest biomass power incinerators in the U.S.—Texas will also be cooking a heck of a lot of trees. At least one million green tons of wood…
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Report: Carbon Neutral Biomass a Scam
A new report by Spain-based Carbon Trade Watch critiques plans by the United Kingdom government and European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to ramp up industrial-scale biomass energy production under the guise of “carbon neutrality,” despite its massive greenhouse gas emissions and threats to public health and global biodiversity. An estimated 80 to 300 million tons of wood…
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Poultry Power Poops Out in North Carolina
(Source: Mary Anderson, Courier-Tribune) A 36 megawatt biomass incinerator that would have burned poultry feces is no longer being considered for Biscoe, North Carolina, to the relief of Montgomery and Moore County residents and grassroots community groups, such as Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), which opposed the project. The developer, Poultry Power, a subsidiary of the Florida-based Green…
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Nurse Speaks Out on Biomass Health Threats
– by Debbie Martinez, RN, Gainesville, Florida As a registered nurse I find it alarming that Alachua County’s huge medical community has remained silent on dangerous smokestack emissions as more research now demonstrates that air pollution from the city’s planned biomass incinerator will pose a significant health risk to adults, children and the unborn within…
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Florida Trash Incinerator Proposal Bites the Dust
(Source: Laurie K. Blandford and Anthony Westbury, TC Palm) A trash incinerator proposal for St. Lucie, Florida has fallen through following a unanimous decision by the St. Lucie County Commissioners to terminate the contract with Georgia-based Geoplasma, citing economic concerns. The 24 megawatt incinerator would’ve incinerated 600 tons of trash per day using a technology called plasma arc, which…
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Are Massachusetts’ New Biomass Regulations Strong Enough?
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources finally released its long awaited and much delayed biomass regulations, garnering both cautious praise and criticism from grassroots biomass opponents. The regulations have disqualified stand-alone biomass power facilities from receiving Renewable Energy Certificates—a ratepayer subsidy under the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard—though incentives are still available for combined heat and power facilities operating…
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Occupy Earth Day: An Expose of the Corporate Propaganda Systems that Undermine Systemic Change Activism
This Earth Day, like so many others, we’ll be invited to pick up litter, plant trees, be reminded to recycle, and countless other personal habits we can adopt to save the earth. Corporations pitching “green” products will bust out their “Lorax-approved” logos and encourage our “green” consumption. This will be the first Earth Day since…
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To Win Ohio and Pennsylvania, Obama Must Oppose Fracking
by Alex Lotorto This morning, I was sipping coffee and watching Sunday morning talk shows with my parents. We talked about the presidential election when my dad muted the commercial breaks that consistently included fossil fuel industry commercials. My mom put it simply, “I made phone calls, put up posters, and worked at the [Obama]…
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Bold Energy Justice Platform Released!
After a year of work with numerous grassroots leaders throughout the U.S., our network of activists fighting “biomass” incinerators has put together a bold and comprehensive platform to guide and unite our work. Since so-called “biomass” incineration cuts across many issues, including energy and waste policy as well as agriculture and forestry issues, it makes sense that…
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We predicted the nation’s largest city bankruptcy — 8 years ago
Pennsylvania’s capital city is now filing for bankruptcy. We hate to say it, but we told them so… eight years ago. In 2003, Energy Justice founder, Mike Ewall, testified before Harrisburg City Council at the request of the coalition of black clergy in the region, warning them that if they borrowed another $125 million to rebuilt…
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