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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 Depart­ment…

  • 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…

  • Behind the Colorado Fracking Betrayal

    - by Joel Dyer, August 7, 2014, Boul­der Weekly So what went wrong with bal­lot mea­sures 88 and 89? How could these pop­u­lar citizen’s ini­tia­tives writ­ten to give local com­mu­ni­ties more con­trol over drilling and frack­ing in their neigh­bor­hoods have failed to get on the ballot? Well, the first mis­take Col­orado cit­i­zens made was they trust­ed…

  • 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 email…

  • 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…

  • 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”…

  • 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…

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