• Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the Jan­u­ary issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy - Dirt Cheap Clean Energy -  Ener­gy Stor­age and Solar Inspir­ing Cus­tomers to Drop Utilities? -  Destruc­tion of Demand: How to Shrink Our Ener­gy Footprint …and more! Please share the Jan­u­ary 2015 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with…

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  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy

    The most excit­ing news is com­ing soon­er than I expect­ed. The moment where the biggest fights become where to put all of the wind and solar, rather than hav­ing to end­less­ly fight off plans for nuclear, coal, oil, or gas pow­er plants, or bio­mass or waste incinerators. The lines are already cross­ing. These are the…

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  • Trash Incinerators: Don’t Call it a Comeback

    The New York Times ran an arti­cle on Jan 11th, 2015, act­ing like incin­er­a­tors are mak­ing a come­back, and fea­tur­ing the huge Ener­gy Answers incin­er­a­tor pro­posed in Bal­ti­more as if it’s “being built” (which is not true).  Incin­er­a­tors are try­ing to come back, but our move­ment is effec­tive­ly beat­ing back the indus­try almost every­where they go, with Flori­da a rare exception.…

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  • Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution

    - Jan­u­ary 6, 2015, Local­SYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cort­land Coun­ty to be brought into Ononda­ga County’s Waste to Ener­gy facility. Both coun­ties’ leg­is­la­tures this week have held pub­lic hear­ings on the so called “Ash for Trash” plan. For two decades now Ononda­ga Coun­ty’s Waste to Ener­gy facil­i­ty has been burn­ing trash only…

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  • Largest Ground Source Heat Pump Installation in UK Poultry Sector

    - Sep­tem­ber 1, 2015, Farm­ing Life Renew­able spe­cial­ist TGE Group has been award­ed a £1m con­tract to install a 1,300kW heat pump for a Shrop­shire poul­try farmer to pro­vide heat and cool­ing across four new poul­try units. On com­ple­tion, the sys­tem will be the largest Ground Source Heat Pump instal­la­tion in the UK poul­try sector. The project, cur­rent­ly…

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  • Nova Scotia Power Biomass in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns

    - by Aaron Beswick, Jan­u­ary 9, 2015, The Chron­i­cle Herald About 2,790 hectares. That’s a rough esti­mate of how much wood­land will need to be cut annu­al­ly to feed Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass boil­er at Point Tupper. “It seems that more of the fears are com­ing true than the ben­e­fits we had envi­sioned from that facil­i­ty,”…

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  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    - Sam Ali, Jan­u­ary 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renew­able Ener­gy Coali­tion is one step clos­er to help­ing bring a solu­tion to the ener­gy cri­sis in the Cop­per Country. Last night, KREC gath­ered experts in the log­ging and tim­ber indus­tries for a bio­mass work­ing ses­sion to dis­cuss the future of a pos­si­ble 11-megawatt bio­mass elec­tric…

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  • Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria

    -  by Melis­sa San­tos, Jan­u­ary 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stan­ton cred­its a state pro­gram with sav­ing her home from the worst wild­fire in Washington’s history. Despite her prop­er­ty being in the path of the Carl­ton Com­plex fire, which scorched about 256,000 acres in Okanogan and Chelan coun­ties last sum­mer, Stanton’s home and the trees…

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  • Citizens Urge EPA and Congress to Choose Public Interest Over Politics on Energy Policy

    - Mike Ewall and Saman­tha Chirillo In Decem­ber, 900 Amer­i­cans, includ­ing 100 orga­ni­za­tions across the U.S. col­lec­tive­ly voiced their con­cerns about major parts of Pres­i­dent Obama’s Clean Pow­er Plan, in com­ments sub­mit­ted to the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA). Cit­i­zens specif­i­cal­ly asked the EPA to: ·      set more aggres­sive tar­gets and address envi­ron­men­tal justice ·      not encour­age more…

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  • Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT

    - by Bill Cum­mings, Decem­ber 28, 2014, CT Post The dis­cov­ery of PCBs and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants at Green­wich High School two years ago is only part of a mosa­ic of can­cer-caus­ing tox­i­cs that have cropped up at var­i­ous sites around one of the nation’s wealth­i­est, most exclu­sive communities. Pol­lu­tants have now been con­firmed at three oth­er loca­tions in Green­wich,…

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