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Tag: bioenergy

  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the Jan­u­ary issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy - Dirt Cheap Clean Energy -  Ener­gy Stor­age and Solar Inspir­ing Cus­tomers to Drop Utilities? -  Destruc­tion of Demand: How to Shrink Our Ener­gy Footprint …and more! Please share the Jan­u­ary 2015 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with…

  • Nova Scotia Power Biomass in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns

    - by Aaron Beswick, Jan­u­ary 9, 2015, The Chron­i­cle Herald About 2,790 hectares. That’s a rough esti­mate of how much wood­land will need to be cut annu­al­ly to feed Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass boil­er at Point Tupper. “It seems that more of the fears are com­ing true than the ben­e­fits we had envi­sioned from that facil­i­ty,”…

  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    - Sam Ali, Jan­u­ary 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renew­able Ener­gy Coali­tion is one step clos­er to help­ing bring a solu­tion to the ener­gy cri­sis in the Cop­per Country. Last night, KREC gath­ered experts in the log­ging and tim­ber indus­tries for a bio­mass work­ing ses­sion to dis­cuss the future of a pos­si­ble 11-megawatt bio­mass elec­tric…

  • 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…

  • Citizens Urge EPA and Congress to Choose Public Interest Over Politics on Energy Policy

    - Mike Ewall and Saman­tha Chirillo In Decem­ber, 900 Amer­i­cans, includ­ing 100 orga­ni­za­tions across the U.S. col­lec­tive­ly voiced their con­cerns about major parts of Pres­i­dent Obama’s Clean Pow­er Plan, in com­ments sub­mit­ted to the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA). Cit­i­zens specif­i­cal­ly asked the EPA to: ·      set more aggres­sive tar­gets and address envi­ron­men­tal justice ·      not encour­age more…

  • Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT

    - by Bill Cum­mings, Decem­ber 28, 2014, CT Post The dis­cov­ery of PCBs and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants at Green­wich High School two years ago is only part of a mosa­ic of can­cer-caus­ing tox­i­cs that have cropped up at var­i­ous sites around one of the nation’s wealth­i­est, most exclu­sive communities. Pol­lu­tants have now been con­firmed at three oth­er loca­tions in Green­wich,…

  • Southwest Airlines to Use Forest Biofuels

    - by Ter­ry Max­on, Decem­ber 31, 2014, Dal­las Morn­ing News South­west Air­lines announced Wednes­day that it plans to buy some bio­fu­els made from waste wood, for use in its San Fran­cis­co Bay air­ports begin­ning in two years. To use South­west­’s phras­ing, it is pur­chas­ing “low car­bon renew­able jet fuel, made using for­est residues that will help reduce the risk…

  • Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees

    - by David E. Mal­loy, Decem­ber 29, 2014, Her­ald Dispatch Bio­mass, a Ken­tucky-based com­pa­ny that owns the for­mer South Point Ethanol prop­er­ty adja­cent to The Point indus­tri­al park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in back tax­es, penal­ties and costs by Jan. 27 to main­tain the 78-acre parcel. Lawrence Coun­ty Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney Brigham Ander­son filed…

  • Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy

    - Decem­ber 29, 2014, The Recorder Near­ly 40,000 tons of for­est residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne Coun­ty has been removed for use to gen­er­ate bio­mass ener­gy, accord­ing to the U.S. Agri­cul­ture Department. Mean­while, the USDA said it has made funds avail­able to help Cal­i­for­nia landown­ers con­serve nat­ur­al resources dam­aged or threat­ened as a…

  • Biofuel Hell

    - by Richard Adri­an Reese, Feb­ru­ary 17, 2013, Wild Ances­tors I keep hav­ing night­mares about one pos­si­ble future: bio­fu­el hell.  Clear­ly, they are visions sent by ances­tral spir­its, and they are meant to be shared.  Per­haps they will inspire writ­ers, movie mak­ers, and oth­er cre­ative peo­ple to pro­duce heal­ing, mind-alter­ing work.  Per­haps they will inspire con­tem­pla­tion…