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  • Proposed Klamath Falls, Oregon Biomass Incinerator Will Not Be Built

    Pro­posed Kla­math Falls, Ore­gon Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Will Not Be Built June 13, 2013. Source: Her­ald and News A pro­posed bio­mass plant off High­way 66 will not be built, due to com­pli­ca­tions with its fed­er­al fund­ing source. Kla­math Falls Bioen­er­gy with­drew its appli­ca­tion for a site cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on Tuesday. The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process had been mired in delays with the…

  • New Report spells out Potential Negative Impacts of Bioeconomy and Markets in Environmental Services on Women

    New Report Spells Out Poten­tial Neg­a­tive Impacts of Bioe­con­o­my and Mar­kets in Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices on Women June 12, 2013. Source: Glob­al For­est Coali­tion  A new report [1] by the Glob­al For­est Coali­tion [2] was launched at a side event on equi­ty in cli­mate mit­i­ga­tion poli­cies orga­nized by Gen­der­CC at the cli­mate talks in Bonn, Ger­many [3]. The report high­lights…

  • 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…

  • Obama and Romney Unite on Destructive Bioenergy Policy

    Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma and Repub­li­can Par­ty Nom­i­nee Mitt Rom­ney may not see eye to eye on issues like same-sex mar­riage, immi­gra­tion, or abor­tion, but when it comes to the can­di­dates’ harm­ful stances on bio­mass ener­gy and bio­fu­els, the two might as well be run­ning on the same ticket. Gov­er­nor Mitt Romney  Tech­ni­cal­ly, Romney’s white paper on ener­gy pol­i­cy, The…

  • Biomass Opponents Silenced by North Carolina Commission

    Res­i­dents of six coun­ties in North and South Car­oli­na fac­ing mas­sive chick­en and pig-manure burn­ing bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tors, includ­ing a man dressed as a chick­en [pic­tured below], were barred from giv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny at a North Car­oli­na Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion hear­ing over bio­mass elec­tric­i­ty require­ments on August 28 in Raleigh. The hear­ing was in response to a request by Duke Ener­gy, Progress Ener­gy, Domin­ion…

  • Biomass Incinerator Looms on Horizon for Gypsum, Colorado

    An 11.5 megawatt bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tor pro­pos­al for the 6,400 per­son cen­tral-Col­orado town of Gyp­sum is mov­ing along swift­ly, despite con­cerns of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers and at least one town councilor. Utah-based Eagle Val­ley Clean Ener­gy LLC’s facil­i­ty would burn 70,000 bone-dry tons per year of wood chips from whole trees—living and beetle-killed—tree branch­es and limbs, and “urban wood waste…