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  • SOS! National Day of Action to Save Our Southern Forests

    -By Emi­ly Zucchi­no, Octo­ber 28, 2014, Dog­wood Alliance Today’s biggest threat to South­ern forests is the grow­ing bio­mass indus­try. The wood pel­let indus­try is expand­ing at a rate that is impos­si­ble for South­ern forests to sus­tain. Our beau­ti­ful forests are being clear-cut, processed into pel­lets and then shipped to Europe to be burned for electricity. We…

  • New Contract to Accelerate Use of Biomass in China

    - Octo­ber 13, 2014, Bioen­er­gy News US-based renew­able fuels pro­duc­er Blue­Fire Renew­ables has finalised and signed a new mas­ter engi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment and con­struc­tion (EPC) con­tract for its cel­lu­losic ethanol plant in Ful­ton, Mississippi. The con­tract is with Chi­na Inter­na­tion­al Water and Elec­tric, a sub­sidiary of renew­able ener­gy com­pa­ny Chi­na Three Gorges (CTG). ‘The mas­ter EPC struc­ture will…

  • 34.5 Megawatt Biomass Project Planned for Japan

    - Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, New Gen­er­a­tion Power New Gen­er­a­tion Pow­er Inter­na­tion­al, a lead­ing glob­al renew­able ener­gy com­pa­ny, will devel­op three 11.5 Megawatt (MW) wood bio­mass plants in Japan. Togeth­er, Chica­go-based New Gen­er­a­tion Pow­er Inter­na­tion­al (NGPI) and Nip­pon Ener­gy Solu­tion, Inc. (NES) will launch a new wood-based bio­mass ener­gy gen­er­a­tion ven­ture that will con­struct three sep­a­rate facil­i­ties locat­ed in…

  • Proposed Plant to Export Wood Pellets to Asia

    - Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine A pro­posed pel­let plant under devel­op­ment near Mis­sion, British Colum­bia, aims to pro­duce wood pel­lets for export into indus­tri­al mar­kets in South Korea and oth­er Asian mar­kets. The project is being devel­oped by SMG Wood Pel­let Inc., a sub­sidiary of Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia-based SMG Asset. The facil­i­ty will be brand­ed…

  • More Logging and Biomass Burning Won’t Solve Job Woes

    -  by Rob Handy, July 6, 2014, Reg­is­ter Guard Dur­ing my tenure as a Lane Coun­ty com­mis­sion­er, I watched Lane County’s tim­ber har­vest rise from 337 mil­lion board feet in 2009 to 590 mil­lion board feet in 2012, report­ed con­cise­ly by the state Depart­ment of Forestry. In spite of this huge surge, a 75 per­cent increase, I…

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