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Tag: bioenergy

  • Springfield, MA Mayor Blocks Appeal Against Biomass Incinerator

    - by Paul Tuthill, Sep­tem­ber 12, 2014, WAMC The may­or of Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts won’t autho­rize an appeal to block con­struc­tion of a wood-burn­ing pow­er plant. A spokesman for May­or Domenic Sarno said the may­or will not approve funds to appeal a court rul­ing that ordered the city to rein­state the build­ing per­mit for the bio­mass project.  The…

  • Springfield, MA City Council Votes to Appeal Biomass Permit Ruling

    - by Ryan Trow­bridge, Sep­tem­ber 10, 2014, WGGB Wednes­day night, the Spring­field City Coun­cil took up the con­tentious issue of a planned bio­mass incin­er­a­tor in the city. Oppo­nents claim the plant would only add more pol­lu­tion to an already pol­lut­ed city, but the state just ruled Spring­field does not have the author­i­ty to stop its development. It’s…

  • Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too

    - by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Wash­ing­ton Post The Post’s Aug. 28 edi­to­r­i­al “An answer to glob­al warm­ing” made good points about a car­bon tax. How­ev­er, a seri­ous prob­lem that was not men­tioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from bio­mass ener­gy sources, such as burn­ing wood in pow­er plants. Most pro­posed car­bon con­trol schemes…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Public Opposition Spurs County to Delay New Biomass Facility

    [Inter­est­ing piece by indus­try PR per­son in regards to deal­ing with pub­lic oppo­si­tion to dirty ener­gy projects. ‑Ed.] - by Al Maior­i­no, Sep­tem­ber 2, 2014, Renew­able Ener­gy Magazine Tran­syl­va­nia Coun­ty in North Car­oli­na is cur­rent­ly engaged in inten­sive inter­nal debate about the role of bio­mass in their future. The cur­rent state of affairs began last year…

  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    - by Duane Shim­gawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacif­ic Busi­ness News The only coal-fired pow­er plant in Hawaii, which is the sin­gle largest gen­er­at­ing plant on Oahu, is under finan­cial stress because there is no finan­cial reserve, accord­ing to the Hawai­ian Elec­tric Co.‘s new ener­gy plan released this week. Hawai­ian Elec­tric is also ask­ing AES Hawai­ito con­vert some of the ener­gy…

  • Proposed Washington Biomass Incinerator Nets $200k State Grant

    [Anoth­er bio­mass incin­er­a­tor that would require the log­ging of pub­lic lands. ‑Ed.]  - by Eric Florip, August 27, 2014, The Columbian A $200,000 state grant will sup­port a new bio­mass-fueled pow­er plant near Steven­son expect­ed to be oper­a­tional next year, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednes­day. The mon­ey will go to Wind Riv­er Bio­mass Util­i­ty, which has…

  • Stalled Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Gets Building Permit

    - by Michae­lann Bewsee, August 21, 2014, Arise for Social Justice Fun­ny how bad news can make you want to fight even hard­er for justice. Remem­ber the community’s fight to keep a bio­mass plant out of Spring­field? Yes­ter­day we found out that the Land Court grant­ed Palmer Renew­able Energy’s request to rein­state their build­ing per­mit, undo­ing…

  • Tennessee Biomass Incinerator Shut Down For Costs, Safety

    - by Frank Munger, August 24, 2014, Knoxville News Sentinel Oak Ridge Nation­al Laboratory’s Bio­mass Steam Plant, her­ald­ed as a mon­ey saver and friend to the envi­ron­ment, failed to live up to its hype oper­a­tional­ly, and the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy is report­ed­ly try­ing to rene­go­ti­ate its deal with the com­pa­ny that per­formed this and oth­er projects at…