Tag: renewable energy
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Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan
UPDATE: despite strong organizing efforts, an outpouring of community opposition and strong research we’ve compiled to show how awful this plan is, city council voted unanimously on Aug 13th to approve Covanta’s plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incineration. In fact, it’ll go…
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Biomass Burning Kills 250,000 People a Year
– by Jo Nova, August 5, 2014, JoanneNova.com.au The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: “As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming.” For me what matters are the deaths in the here and now: “We calculate that 5…
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Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator
– by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved this fall, to make their concerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Community Room at the Gainesville Police…
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Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator
– by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved this fall, to make their concerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Community Room at the Gainesville Police…
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USDA Splurges Millions on Biomass Power Incinerators
[More taxpayer money funding private corporations to log National Forests under the unscientific guise of “wildfire prevention.” -Ed.] – US Department of Agriculture, July 23, 2014, Office of Communications Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected 36 energy facilities in 14 states to accept biomass deliveries supported by…
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2014: The Year of the Smokestack Smackdown [Energy Justice Now, August 2014]
Prepare yourself for the August issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! – “2014 a Banner Year for Victories” – “Derailing NYC Trash Train in Chester, PA” – “Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?” …and more!!! Please share the August 2014 issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and elected officials! Subscribe to monthly…
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Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?
– by Ann Darling, The Safe and Green Campaign The Vermont Yankee nuclear power station in southeastern Vermont will close in December of this year after operating for over 40 years. The owner, Entergy Nuclear, is based in New Orleans and is the second largest nuclear power company in the U.S. As a member of the Safe…
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Biomass Rejected in Favor of Solar in Springfield, VT
– by Susan Smallheer, July 17, 2014, Rutland Herald North Springfield, Vt. — Out with biomass, in with solar panels. Winstanley Enterprises announced Wednesday that it was seeking state approval to build five, 500-kilowatt solar arrays in the North Springfield Industrial Park. Some of the land that will be used was earlier proposed to be…
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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,…
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Wood Stoves a Major Contributor to “Unhealthy” Air Days in Clallam County, WA
Read The Biomass Monitor’s coverage of the story behind these air pollution tests: “Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on the Olympic Peninsula” – by Arwyn Rice, July 14, 2014, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Air quality in central and eastern Clallam County is generally good, but wood burning for home heating and transportation-related pollutants are contributing to occasional “unhealthy”…
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