Tag: economics
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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