Tag: forests
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$10 Million Taxpayer Money to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees to Biofuel
$10 Million Taxpayer Money to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees to Biofuel – by Ashley Sanchez, November 6, 2013, Source: ABC Fox Montana The University of Montana is awarded part of a $10 million grant to find ways to turn beetle-killed trees into biofuel. Pine beetle infestations have impacted more than 42 million acres of U.S. forests for more…
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Wood – An Imperfect Biomass
Wood – An Imperfect Biomass – by Jack Dini, November 12, 2013, Source: Canada Free Press The largest, so-called renewable fuel used in Europe is not solar power or wind power, but wood. As The Economist reports, “In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts for about…
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Forests Could Face Threat from Biomass Power “Gold Rush”
Forests Could Face Threat from Biomass Power “Gold Rush” – by Jamie Doward, The Observer Britain’s new generation of biomass power stations will have to source millions of tonnes of wood from thousands of miles away if they are to operate near to their full capacity, raising questions about the claims made for the sustainability of…
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Outsourcing Forests Costs Thousands of Jobs
Outsourcing Forests Costs Thousands of Jobs – by Roy Keene Log and chip exports, constituting a third of Oregon’s annual timber harvest, are outsourcing over a billion board feet of wood and thousands of domestic manufacturing jobs. Yet Barnum fails to even mention exports, let alone account for the losses. As director of the Oregon…
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Typhoons, Climate Negotiations and a Reality Check
Typhoons, Climate Negotiations and a Reality Check – by Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch The latest round of climate negotiations are opening just as we are hearing the stories and viewing images on the news coverage of the devastation wrought on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan (aka Yolanda). Coincidentally, the last round of climate negotiations, COP 18…
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets – by Jeff Conant, Friends of the Earth In the landscape of global deforestation, a tension exists between policies and practices aimed at drawing a sharp halt to the exploitation of forests and forest peoples and those designed to stimulate a vaguely promised market shift…
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Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive
Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive – by Chad Hanson, October 3, 2013. Source: Los Angeles Times It was entirely predictable. Even before the ashes have cooled on the 257,000-acre Rim fire in and around Yosemite this year, the timber industry and its allies in Congress were using the fire as an excuse for suspending environmental laws and expanding logging operations on federal land.…
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Anti-G.E. Trees Group Censored by University of Florida
Environmental group kicked off UF campus – by Jeff Schweers, October 28, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun An environmental group that was scheduled to make a presentation on Monday at the University of Florida on genetically engineered trees was kicked off campus over the weekend and its members threatened with arrest and banned for three years. Organizers with the…
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(October 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Debunking Wildfire Myths”
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6pm EST TOPIC: “Debunking Wildfire Myths” RECORDING: Debunking Wildfire Myths – October 2013 We discuss how we can improve our advocacy about wildfire and forest practices and how those topics are inseparable from biomass incineration. What’s changing with our Western U.S. forest ecosystems,…
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October 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Debunking Wildfire Myths”
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6pm EST TOPIC: “Debunking Wildfire Myths” RECORDING: Debunking Wildfire Myths – October 2013 We discuss how we can improve our advocacy about wildfire and forest practices and how those topics are inseparable from biomass incineration. What’s changing with our Western U.S. forest ecosystems,…
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