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  • Nippon Temporarily Shut Down Because of Biomass Fuel Problems at Power Plant

    - by Paul Got­tlieb, Feb­ru­ary 27, 2014. Source: Penin­su­la Dai­ly News PORT ANGELES — Fuel-sys­tem prob­lems with Nip­pon Paper Indus­tries USA’s new­ly expand­ed bio­mass cogen­er­a­tion plant have caused a two-week shut­down of the mill, accord­ing to a union official. Dar­rel Reetz, vice pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion of West­ern Pulp & Paper Work­ers Local 155, said Thurs­day he…

  • Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel

    - by Kevin Mur­phy, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald wausaudai­ly­her­ald The recent­ly built pow­er plant at Dom­tar paper mill is get­ting only 10 per­cent of its fuel from log­ging waste, which orig­i­nal­ly was sup­posed to sup­ply near­ly all of the plant’s ener­gy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 mil­lion pow­er plant went online in Novem­ber to pro­vide steam for Domtar’s paper…

  • State Allowed Logging on Plateau Above Slope of Washington Mudslide

    - by Mike Bak­er, Ken Arm­strong, and Hal Bern­ton, March 25, 2014. Source: The Seat­tle Times The plateau above the sog­gy hill­side that gave way Sat­ur­day has been logged for almost a cen­tu­ry, with hun­dreds of acres of soft­woods cut and hauled away, accord­ing to state records. But in recent decades, as the slope has become more…

  • Group Descries Logging in Northampton, MA Watershed

    - by Rebec­ca Everett, March 17, 2014. Source: Dai­ly Hamp­shire Gazette Chris Mat­era of Northamp­ton said he was dri­ving through Whate­ly to go ski­ing two weeks ago when he noticed piles of fresh-cut logs at the mouth of a trail into a forest. “I said, ‘Wait, isn’t that the water­shed?,’” he recalled recently. Mat­era, who heads…

  • 220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy

    Demand for bio­mass ener­gy in Col­orado will require log­ging in 220,000 acres of the White Riv­er Nation­al For­est. ‑Ed. - by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Moun­tain Town News For most of the last decade, Col­oradans have been talk­ing about how to make good use of their moun­tain forests, dying and gray. Some­thing is final­ly happening.…

  • Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame

    [The bio­mass indus­try is team­ing up with envi­ron­men­tal­ists to increase the amount of forests burned for pol­lut­ing ener­gy in the Great North Woods.] Fan­ning the North­east­ern Bio­mass Flame - by Joseph Sey­mour, March 11, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine Migrat­ing 1 mil­lion homes to bio­mass heat is optimistic—let alone 6 million—but recent devel­op­ments in the north­east­ern U.S. are dri­ving…

  • West Coast Wood Exports Undercut Economy and Environment

    West Coast Wood Exports Under­cut Econ­o­my and Environment - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Since the Euro­pean Union (EU) coun­tries set high car­bon reduc­tion stan­dards and count­ed bio­mass ener­gy as car­bon neu­tral and renew­able, bio­mass exports from the south­east­ern U.S. have skyrocketed. Now, as Japan looks for an alter­na­tive to nuclear ener­gy, as U.S. cor­po­ra­tions…

  • AUDIO: “Exporting Our Forests and Economy” ANTI-BIOMASS INCINERATION CAMPAIGN CALL (December 2013)

    Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign — Nation­al Con­fer­ence Call  Thurs­day, Decem­ber 5, 2013 TOPIC: “Export­ing Our Forests and Economy” RECORDING: Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Noise – Decem­ber 2013 We dis­cuss the eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of ship­ping logs, wood pel­lets, and oth­er for­est prod­ucts over­seas from the West and East coasts in the U.S. Guest speak­ers: -Roy Keene, Pub­lic Inter­est Forester-Greg Palle­sen, Asso­ci­a­tion…

  • Biomass Thermal: The Logs That Break the Forest’s Back

    Bio­mass Ther­mal: The Logs That Break the Forest’s Back A sec­tor of the bio­mass incin­er­a­tion indus­try claims to be turn­ing over a new “green” leaf by build­ing small­er, slight­ly more ener­gy-effi­cient facil­i­ties focused on heat­ing rather than elec­tric­i­ty. Mean­while, behind the smoke­screen, bio­mass ther­mal advo­cates are sup­port­ing much of the same for­est-raid­ing, cli­mate-bust­ing, and lung-sear­ing…

  • 250 Scientists Concerned about Post-fire Logging

    250 Sci­en­tists Con­cerned about Post-fire Logging Novem­ber 4, 2013, Source: Yuba.net In an open let­ter to the U.S. Con­gress, 250 sci­en­tists request that Con­gress show restraint in speed­ing up log­ging in the wake of this year’s wild­fires, most notably the Rim fire in the Stanis­laus Nation­al For­est and Yosemite Nation­al Park. The sci­en­tists raised con­cerns that cur­rent­ly pro­posed…