Tag: washington
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Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria
- by Melissa Santos, January 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stanton credits a state program with saving her home from the worst wildfire in Washington’s history. Despite her property being in the path of the Carlton Complex fire, which scorched about 256,000 acres in Okanogan and Chelan counties last summer, Stanton’s home and the trees…
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Proposed Washington Biomass Incinerator Nets $200k State Grant
[Another biomass incinerator that would require the logging of public lands. ‑Ed.] - by Eric Florip, August 27, 2014, The Columbian A $200,000 state grant will support a new biomass-fueled power plant near Stevenson expected to be operational next year, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday. The money will go to Wind River Biomass Utility, which has…
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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, which might…
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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…
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