Tag: logging
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High-Grade Wood Going to Nova Scotia Biomass Incinerator
– by Tom Ayer , May 12, 2014, Source: Cape Breton Bureau Photo: Erin Pottie, Cape Breton Bureau Top stories in Halifax Business owners in Cape Breton who rely on the forest for a living say high-quality hardwoods are making their way into Nova Scotia Power’s biomass plant in Point Tupper, consuming a wood supply that…
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Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington
– by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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