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  • On Biomass, EPA Should Follow the Science

    Oth­er than the author’s sup­port for so-called “sus­tain­able” bio­mass, over­all a decent piece. — Josh - by William H. Schlesinger, June 18, 2014, The Hill In America’s South­east­ern states, there’s a boom­ing ener­gy trend that’s as big a step back­ward as imaginable. In fact, it stretch­es back to the time of cave­men. Pow­er com­pa­nies are burn­ing trees…

  • Solar Power Heats 90% of Community’s Homes…in Canada

    - Drake Land­ing Solar Community The Drake Land­ing Solar Com­mu­ni­ty (DLSC) is a mas­ter planned neigh­bour­hood in the Town of Oko­toks, Alber­ta, Cana­da that has suc­cess­ful­ly inte­grat­ed Cana­di­an ener­gy effi­cient tech­nolo­gies with a renew­able, unlim­it­ed ener­gy source — the sun. The first of its kind in North Amer­i­ca, DLSC is heat­ed by a dis­trict sys­tem designed to…

  • Energy Justice Now — A Forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance [June 2014]

    Check out the inau­gur­al June 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now! In the June issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now (a forum for the dirty ener­gy resistance): -“Why Sol­i­dar­i­ty is Need­ed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incin­er­a­tor Fight­ers” -“Pub­lic Lands, Dirty Ener­gy” -“On the Dirty Ener­gy Pol­i­cy Front” …and more!!! Please share the June 2014 issue…

  • Why Solidarity is Needed More than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Most progress in stop­ping pol­lut­ing ener­gy and waste indus­tries is accom­plished by grass­roots activism, stop­ping one project at a time. Many assume that grass­roots groups are “NIMBY” types just push­ing pol­luters from one com­mu­ni­ty to anoth­er. How­ev­er, 50% to 95% of each wave of indus­tri­al devel­op­ment in recent decades has…

  • Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site

    - by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brat­tle­boro Reformer Select­board mem­bers are tout­ing the poten­tial ben­e­fits of new bio­mass pow­er plant — with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a nat­ur­al-gas com­po­nent — that could be built at the Ver­mont Yan­kee site after the nuclear facil­i­ty shuts. Offi­cials expect to orga­nize a pub­lic forum to dis­cuss the dee­tails of a…

  • Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy

    - by Lisa Woz­ni­ak, June 2, 2014, Lans­ing News Peo­ple in pol­i­tics tell a lot of “suc­cess” sto­ries, but one that can be sub­stan­ti­at­ed is the rise of clean, renew­able ener­gy in Michi­gan. Thanks to a law passed with bipar­ti­san sup­port in 2008, Michi­gan has been chal­lenged to gen­er­ate 10 per­cent of its ener­gy from renew­able sources…

  • Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US

    - May 27, 2014, Bioen­er­gy Insight Five new bio­mass plants with a total gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of 10MW came online in the US last month, accord­ing to the Ener­gy Infra­struc­ture Update for April, pub­lished by the Fed­er­al Ener­gy Reg­u­la­to­ry Com­mis­sion (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 bio­mass-fired facil­i­ties pro­duc­ing a total 20MW of renew­able ener­gy have…

  • Farm Bill Based on Flawed Assumptions about Forest Health and Wildfire

    - by George Wuerthner There are wide­ly held assump­tions that log­ging will reduce or pre­clude large wild­fires and bee­tle out­breaks. The recent Farm Bill pro­vi­sion that would allow cat­e­gor­i­cal exclu­sion to log up to 3000 acres with­out NEPA review is based on flawed assump­tions about for­est health and wildfire.  1. LARGE WILDFIRE CLIMATE DRIVEN Large…

  • Concerns Voiced over Nova Scotia Biomass Logging

    - by Lois Ann Dort, Guys­bor­ough Journal Last week Nova Sco­tia Pow­er held one of many region­al com­mit­tee meet­ings at the Port Hawkes­bury Civic Cen­tre. Mem­bers of the Munic­i­pal­i­ty of the Dis­trict of Guys­brough coun­cil were on hand and voiced con­cerns about the har­vest­ing of bio­mass in the dis­trict to sup­ply the bio­mass plant at Point…

  • Connecticut Buys Fake “Clean” Energy from New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator

    [Oth­er than ignor­ing all health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of bio­mass incin­er­a­tion, this arti­cle false­ly claims that the Burgess BioPow­er incin­er­a­tor in New Hamp­shire can oper­ate at 90% effi­cien­cy, while in real­i­ty bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tors oper­ate at 20–25% effi­cien­cy. ‑Ed.] - by Geof­frey Craig and Derek Sands, Platts Con­necti­cut’s Pub­lic Util­i­ties Reg­u­la­to­ry Author­i­ty approved on Tues­day a New…