Tag: subsidies
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$91 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Louisiana Biofuel Plant
– Cole Avery, October 3, 2014, The Times-Picayune Tom Vilsack, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced a $91 million loan guarantee from the federal government to help build a biomass fuel plant in Louisiana. Vilsack traveled to Baton Rouge on Friday to make the announcement. He said the plant could have a “profound…
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Biomass Incinerators Sue Feds for $22 Million
– by Maeusz Perkoswki, September 16, 2014, Capital Press Two biomass facilities in California that use agricultural waste to generate electricity claim the federal government owes them about $22 million. The plaintiffs — Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass and Merced Power — claim the U.S. Treasury Department is wrongly withholding funds from an economic stimulus program that helps…
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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…
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Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?
– by Nicolas Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Senate considering extending a package of tax credits that expired at the end of 2013, six Senators have banded together to call on Congress to re-up the expired biofuel credits. In particular, tax credits of $1 per gallon produced was offered for blended diesel made…
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Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K.
Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K. – by Roger Harrabin, July 16, 2013. Source: BBC The government is turning away from its controversial policy of subsidising UK power stations to generate electricity from burning wood. It is proposing that subsidies for bespoke biomass burning plants should be capped at 400 MW. It will end subsidies…
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