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Kauai Biomass Facility to Get Fuel from Burned Forest
- by Chris D’Angelo, March 5, 2015, The Garden Island It is unlike any other logging operation in Hawaii’s history. And the $90 million biomass-to-energy facility the logs are destined for is as unique as the project itself, state officials say. “This is the largest operation that we’ve had,” said Lisa Hadway, administrator of the state Department…
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Biomass: The Unsustainable Energy Source
- by Atheo, Aletho News The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy,” sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic. But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of biomass…
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Soil is Not Renewable
- by Friends of the Wild Swan and Swan View Coalition Soils are the foundation of terrestrial life. Forest productivity is directly tied to soil conditions. Soil takes thousands of years to develop and is not “renewable“on a human time scale. Soil is an ecosystem in itself that must be healthy in order to provide…
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Planned La Pine, OR Biomass Facility Hinges on Market
- by Dylan J. Darling, March 17, 2015, Bend Bulletin A wood-burning power plant remains a possibility for La Pine, with the city now taking the lead on the project from Deschutes County and the company behind it waiting for a change in the energy market. “It’s just been on hold due to market conditions,” said…
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RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind
- by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Biomass Magazine While RWE Group reported it achieved its earnings targets for 2014 and EBITDA was significantly better than planned, low electricity prices and unusually mild weather negatively affected business performance, which dropped 25 percent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Terium, CEO of RWE, said that currently, 35 to 45 percent…
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RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind
- by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Biomass Magazine While RWE Group reported it achieved its earnings targets for 2014 and EBITDA was significantly better than planned, low electricity prices and unusually mild weather negatively affected business performance, which dropped 25 percent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Terium, CEO of RWE, said that currently, 35 to 45 percent…
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Landfill Keeps Rhode Island Incinerator Debate Alive
- by Tim Faulkner, March 4, 2015, Eco RI News The seemingly annual debate about building a waste incinerator in Rhode Island resolved little on the issue this year, except that any such facility is too expensive and likely at least 10 years from ever being built. The sole advocate for considering an incinerator is the operator of…
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Procter & Gamble Fires Up Massive Biomass Investment
- by Heather Clancy, March 3, 2015, Forbes With companies like Apple and Google regularly stealing headlines for their solar and wind investments, it’s easy to forget “renewable” energy comes in many forms. For consumer products giant Procter & Gamble biomass continues to be highly strategic. Indeed, it’s working on one of the biggest corporate biomass plants in the United States,…
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Hardwood Trees Chipped for Nova Scotia Biomass
- by Roger Taylor, February 26, 2015, Herald Business Hardwood trees are being allowed to go up in smoke, and with them a number of rural manufacturing jobs that are hard to replace. It is easy to reach that conclusion after reading stories about several companies in rural Nova Scotia that have been making products from…
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New York Republicans Trying to Slip Pricey Biofuels Mandate into Budget
- by Fredric U. Dicker, March 2, 2015, New York Post With a bitter-cold winter and skyrocketing heating oil use, the GOP’s timing couldn’t be worse. Senate Republicans, under pressure from maverick supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, are trying to slip a “green biofuels” mandate into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new budget that could add $150 million a year to…
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