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  • $10 Million Taxpayer Money to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees to Biofuel

    $10 Mil­lion Tax­pay­er Mon­ey to Con­vert Bee­tle-Killed Trees to Biofuel - by Ash­ley Sanchez, Novem­ber 6, 2013, Source: ABC Fox Montana The Uni­ver­si­ty of Mon­tana is award­ed part of a $10 mil­lion grant to find ways to turn bee­tle-killed trees into biofuel. Pine bee­tle infes­ta­tions have impact­ed more than 42 mil­lion acres of U.S. forests for more…

  • Anti‑G.E. Trees Group Censored by University of Florida

    Envi­ron­men­tal group kicked off UF campus - by Jeff Schweers, Octo­ber 28, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun An envi­ron­men­tal group that was sched­uled to make a pre­sen­ta­tion on Mon­day at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da on genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered trees was kicked off cam­pus over the week­end and its mem­bers threat­ened with arrest and banned for three years. Orga­niz­ers with the Glob­al…

  • Report on Genetically Engineered “Factory” Trees

    Genet­i­cal­ly Engi­neered “Fac­to­ry Trees”: Sus­tain­able Way For­ward or Dan­ger­ous Diversion? -by Cen­ter for Food Safety Cen­ter for Food Safe­ty (CFS) is pleased to offer a new report, Genet­i­cal­ly Engi­neered Trees: The New Fron­tier of Biotech­nol­o­gy, which explores poten­tial eco­log­i­cal and socioe­co­nom­ic haz­ards of genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered (GE) trees. As you may know, the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture is con­sid­er­ing whether…

  • Genetically Engineered Trees for Bioenergy Pose Major Threat to Southern Forests

    Genet­i­cal­ly Engi­neered Trees for Bioen­er­gy Pose Major Threat to South­ern Forests -by Glob­al Jus­tice Ecol­o­gy Project In response to indus­try plans to devel­op euca­lyp­tus plan­ta­tions across the US South, envi­ron­men­tal groups are rais­ing seri­ous con­cerns about the impacts of euca­lyp­tus plan­ta­tions on forests, rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, wildlife and the cli­mate, espe­cial­ly if those trees are genet­i­cal­ly engineered.…

  • Photos Show Whole Trees Burned for Biomass Power

    Pho­tos Show Whole Trees Burned for Bio­mass Power New evi­dence has emerged once again prov­ing that bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tors burn whole trees—not just wood “residues”—for fuel. The pho­tographs below (tak­en in Decem­ber 2012) show thou­sands of trees stacked and await­ing the chip­per at Hemphill Pow­er and Light, a 14-megawatt bio­mass pow­er incin­er­a­tor in Sul­li­van Coun­ty, New Hamp­shire. Click here for…