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Trash Incinerators: Don’t Call it a Comeback
The New York Times ran an article on Jan 11th, 2015, acting like incinerators are making a comeback, and featuring the huge Energy Answers incinerator proposed in Baltimore as if it’s “being built” (which is not true). Incinerators are trying to…
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Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution
– January 6, 2015, LocalSYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cortland County to be brought into Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility. Both counties’ legislatures this week have held public hearings on the…
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Largest Ground Source Heat Pump Installation in UK Poultry Sector
– September 1, 2015, Farming Life Renewable specialist TGE Group has been awarded a £1m contract to install a 1,300kW heat pump for a Shropshire poultry farmer to provide heat and cooling across four new poultry…
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Nova Scotia Power Biomass in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns
– by Aaron Beswick, January 9, 2015, The Chronicle Herald About 2,790 hectares. That’s a rough estimate of how much woodland will need to be cut annually to feed Nova Scotia Power’s biomass boiler at Point…
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New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?
– Sam Ali, January 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renewable Energy Coalition is one step closer to helping bring a solution to the energy crisis in the Copper Country. Last night, KREC gathered experts in…
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Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria
– by Melissa Santos, January 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stanton credits a state program with saving her home from the worst wildfire in Washington’s history. Despite her property being in the path of the…
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Citizens Urge EPA and Congress to Choose Public Interest Over Politics on Energy Policy
– Mike Ewall and Samantha Chirillo In December, 900 Americans, including 100 organizations across the U.S. collectively voiced their concerns about major parts of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, in comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection…
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Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT
– by Bill Cummings, December 28, 2014, CT Post The discovery of PCBs and other contaminants at Greenwich High School two years ago is only part of a mosaic of cancer-causing toxics that have cropped up at various…
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Southwest Airlines to Use Forest Biofuels
– by Terry Maxon, December 31, 2014, Dallas Morning News Southwest Airlines announced Wednesday that it plans to buy some biofuels made from waste wood, for use in its San Francisco Bay airports beginning in two years.…
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Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees
– by David E. Malloy, December 29, 2014, Herald Dispatch Biomass, a Kentucky-based company that owns the former South Point Ethanol property adjacent to The Point industrial park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in…
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