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  • Council Concerned Over Reports of Land Contamination from Oklahoma Incinerator

    -  by Josh New­town, April 23, 2014, Tahle­quah Dai­ly Press TAHLEQUAH — Nego­ti­a­tions involv­ing the pur­chase of near­ly 20 homes on 7 acres of land near Basin Avenue hit a snag Mon­day night when con­cerns sur­faced over poten­tial con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the area. Tahle­quah May­or Jason Nichols had pro­posed the city pur­chase the homes and duplex­es as a large…

  • Group Calls for Probe of Nova Scotia Biomass Logging

    [The for­est foot­print for a bio­mass incin­er­a­tor is mas­sive. Will be inter­est­ing to see if any probe is done in regards to this facil­i­ty. ‑Ed.] -  by Erin Pot­tie, June 27, 2014, Cape Bre­ton Bureau A Cape Bre­ton envi­ron­men­tal group is call­ing for an emer­gency review of har­vest­ing prac­tices at Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass plant in…

  • Biomass Industry Lashes Out at Solar Subsidies

    [The heav­i­ly-sub­si­dized, pol­lut­ing bio­mass ener­gy indus­try cries foul over get­ting a small­er slice of the tax­pay­er pie than smoke­stack-free solar ener­gy in Cal­i­for­nia. ‑Ed.]  -  by Bon­ner R. Cohen, July 15, 2014, Heart­land The Cal­i­for­nia Wind Ener­gy Asso­ci­a­tion and oth­er renew­able ener­gy groups crit­i­cized a new law extend­ing spe­cial tax breaks to the Cal­i­for­nia solar pow­er…

  • Massachusetts Grants Millions to Biomass Industry

    [Mil­lions of tax­pay­er dol­lars go to pol­lut­ing bio­mass incin­er­a­tion under the guise of “clean” ener­gy. ‑Ed.] -  by Anna Simet, June 5, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine Mass­a­chu­setts has ded­i­cat­ed $3.5 mil­lion to nine renew­able ther­mal projects in the state through a new grant pro­gram, the Mass­a­chu­setts Renew­able Ther­mal Busi­ness Invest­ment Financ­ing Program. Funds for the pro­gram are…

  • Shuttered Texas Biomass Incinerator to Reopen

    -  June 23, 2014, Bioen­er­gy Insight Inven­tivEn­er­gy, an asset man­age­ment firm, has select­ed NRG Ener­gy Ser­vices, a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of NRG Ener­gy, to restart the Aspen Pow­er bio­mass plant locat­ed in Lufkin, Texas. NRG will also oper­ate and main­tain the facil­i­ty once it resumes oper­a­tion. The plant first opened in August 2011 and was the…

  • Activists Shut Down Seneca Biomass Incinerator in Eugene, Oregon

    - by Cas­ca­dia For­est Defend­ers, July 7, 2014, For­est Defense Now Scores of activists with Cas­ca­dia For­est Defend­ers and Earth First! con­verged on the Seneca Jones bio­mass plant this morn­ing to protest the company’s pri­va­ti­za­tion of pub­lic lands in the Elliott State For­est and ongo­ing pol­lu­tion in West Eugene. Cur­rent­ly sev­er­al peo­ple have locked them­selves to…

  • July issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity

    Are you ready for the July issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now?! -“Why Sol­i­dar­i­ty is Need­ed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incin­er­a­tor Fight­ers” -“The Ten Com­mand­ments of Move­ment Sol­i­dar­i­ty”  -“Cow­ard­ly Cli­mate Report Urges Busi­ness as Usu­al” …and more!!! Please share the July 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with your friends, col­leagues, neigh­bors, media, and…

  • Natural Gas + Ethanol = Explosion

    - by Lar­ry Phillips, June 30, 2014, Leader and Times academized.com Leader & Times Online Fire­fight­ers respond­ed to an explo­sion Sun­day evening at Con­esto­ga Energy’s Arkalon Ethanol Plant. For­tu­nate­ly, no one was injured from the blast or sub­se­quent fire, accord­ing to Seward Coun­ty Fire Chief Mike Rice. “We got the page at 7:04 p.m. (Sun­day) about a pos­si­ble…

  • The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity

    After a decade of grass­roots advo­ca­cy, my per­son­al belief is that the great­est obsta­cle to pos­i­tive change in the world isn’t cor­po­ra­tions, the gov­ern­ment, or the 1%, but lack of move­ment solidarity. And no, I’m not pre­tend­ing to be some mod­ern day Moses bring­ing the divine truths down from the moun­tain. I’m just some­one who…

  • Cowardly Climate Report Urges Business as Usual

    - by Shan­non Wil­son, Eco Advo­cates Northwest bellona.org The Nation­al Cli­mate Assess­ment Report released by the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion in May revealed some harsh truths about the cli­mate chaos our species is fac­ing. How­ev­er, a stu­dious read­ing of the report will show that it mere­ly pro­vides cov­er for busi­ness as usu­al, green­wash­es the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, and pro­motes destruc­tive solu­tions such as…