Tag: biofuels
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Couple Suing Iowa Ethanol Plant
– May 21, 2014, WhoTV.com localtvwhotv.wordpress.com A Nevada couple is suing a cellulosic ethanol plant after a fire threatened their home. Ernest and Barbara Clark are suing DuPont Danisco. They are claiming the company has acted recklessly and carelessly in storing the highly combustible corn stover across from their home. On March 31st, at least eight…
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Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?
– by Nicolas Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Senate considering extending a package of tax credits that expired at the end of 2013, six Senators have banded together to call on Congress to re-up the expired biofuel credits. In particular, tax credits of $1 per gallon produced was offered for blended diesel made…
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Biofuels Plant Won’t Protect Us from Wildfire
– by Virginia Moran, May 16, 2014, Source: The Union Regarding the proposed “biofuels” plant (i.e. acceleration of climate change) project, here is what I find “scary”: that residents of western Nevada County are never allowed to live our lives in peace. If we are twitchy and irritable it is because we are constantly on guard…
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Biomass Burner Short on Fuel
– by Aaron Beswick, May 15, 2014, Source: Truro Bureau Nova Scotia is having trouble keeping up with the requirement for fibre at the biomass boiler at Point Tupper, says the natural resources minister. “There’s not enough fibre right now in the province to support demands placed on that sector,” Zach Churchill said Thursday, referring to…
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High-Grade Wood Going to Nova Scotia Biomass Incinerator
– by Tom Ayer , May 12, 2014, Source: Cape Breton Bureau Photo: Erin Pottie, Cape Breton Bureau Top stories in Halifax Business owners in Cape Breton who rely on the forest for a living say high-quality hardwoods are making their way into Nova Scotia Power’s biomass plant in Point Tupper, consuming a wood supply that…
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EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”
[Contact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include biomass energy in their plans. -Ed.] – Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Biomass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seeking public comments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative. The program promotes renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands,…
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The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees
[Yet another bad idea fueled by the fantasy of infinite growth. -Ed.] – May 9, 2014, Source: Phys Org A key challenge in the biofuels landscape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels other than corn ethanol and vegetable oil-based biodiesel—into the transportation pool. Utilization of advanced biofuels is stipulated by the Energy Independence and Security Act; however,…
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Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia
– Rachel Brighton, October 10, 2014, The Chronicle Herald [More evidence of biomass energy competing for limited wood source.] Opening up long-term access to western Crown lands will relieve some of the pressure that has been building in the forestry sector this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and manufacturers had been granted…
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Bioenergy Pipelines?
– August 14, 2014, Waste Management World [The latest bad idea coming out of the polluting bioenergy industry.] A scientist at the University of Alberta, Canada is research to determine whether it’s effective to use pipelines to transport agricultural waste used in biofuels. According to the university, Mahdi Vaezi, a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering,…
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Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington
– by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…
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