• Louisiana Biorefineries Getting $161 Million Taxpayer Handout

    - Ted Grig­gs, Octo­ber 4, 2014, The Advo­cate Two bioen­er­gy com­pa­nies are get­ting a com­bined $161 mil­lion in fed­er­al loan guar­an­tees or con­tracts that will help them devel­op bio­fu­el refiner­ies in Plaque­m­ine and Alexandria. Cool Plan­et Ener­gy Sys­tems is get­ting a $91 mil­lion fed­er­al loan guar­an­tee to pro­duce renew­able bio­fu­el in cen­tral Louisiana from trees, forestry waste…

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  • Composting vs. Waste-to-Energy: The Politics Of Green Waste

    - by Stephen Han­d­ley, Octo­ber 3, 2014, Sus­tain­ablog In Tul­sa, Okla­homa, green waste is very much on the polit­i­cal agen­da. Accord­ing to Tul­sa World, the city’s trash board vot­ed this week to pur­sue a plan to col­lect and incin­er­ate it rather than invest in an active com­post­ing facil­i­ty. Pro­po­nents of the com­post­ing plan are deeply dis­ap­point­ed by…

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  • Bulgarians Blockade Road to Protest Proposed Biomass Incinerator

    - Sep­tem­ber 22, 2014, Novinite.com Res­i­dents of the south­ern Bul­gar­i­an city of Smolyan have staged a brief road block to oppose plans to build a bio­mass-fired ther­mal pow­er plant. Res­i­dents of the Usto­vo dis­trict of Smolyan blocked traf­fic along the Smolyan – Madan road for some 10 min­utes on Mon­day, accord­ing to reports of the Bul­gar­i­an Tele­graph Agency and Cap­i­tal Daily. The pro­test­ers demand…

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  • Forest Service and Collaboratives Garden Our Forests

    - by George Wuerth­n­er, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, The Wildlife News If the pub­lic real­ly under­stood the illog­ic behind For­est Ser­vice polices, includ­ing those endorsed by for­est col­lab­o­ra­tives, I am cer­tain there would be more oppo­si­tion to cur­rent For­est Ser­vice policies. First, most FS tim­ber sales lose mon­ey. They are a net loss to tax­pay­ers. After the…

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  • Are Biomass Incinerators Gobbling Up Firewood?

    [While we are cer­tain­ly not advo­cat­ing for any form of burn­ing, includ­ing fire­wood, it’s inter­est­ing how the bio­mass indus­try com­petes with itself. ‑Ed.] - by Anna Simet, Octo­ber 03, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine Last week, I blogged about the pel­let avail­abil­i­ty sit­u­a­tion in the North­east (the “short­age” last year, what might hap­pen this year, etc.) What I…

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  • Allentown, PA Kills Controversial Waste Incinerator Proposal

    - by Emi­ly Opi­lo, Octo­ber 1, 2014, McClatchy-Tri­bune Region­al News More than two years after the deal’s con­tro­ver­sial approval, Allen­town has ter­mi­nat­ed its con­tract with Delta Ther­mo Ener­gy, end­ing spec­u­la­tion about whether the com­pa­ny would ever build a pro­posed waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in the city. In a let­ter dat­ed Sept. 26, Allen­town solic­i­tor Jer­ry Sny­der wrote that Bucks Coun­ty-based Delta…

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  • 300 Fracked Gas Power Plants Proposed in 45 States: Any Near You? [Energy Justice Now, Sept. 2014]

    Ready or not, here it comes: the Sep­tem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now! Inside this issue: - “Why We Must Fight Gas-Fired Pow­er Plants” - “Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer: Stand­ing With Com­mu­ni­ties in the Shale­fields” - “What the Frack? Scrap­ing the Bot­tom of the Oil Bar­rel” …and more!!! Please share the Sep­tem­ber 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with your friends,…

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  • Unforeseen Dioxin Formation in Waste Incineration

    - by  Ingrid Söder­bergh, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2014, Phys.org Diox­ins forms faster, at low­er tem­per­a­tures and under oth­er con­di­tions than pre­vi­ous­ly thought. This may affect how we in the future con­struct sam­pling equip­ment, flue gas fil­ter­ing sys­tems for waste incin­er­a­tion and how to treat waste incin­er­a­tion fly ash. These are some of the con­clu­sions Eva Wei­de­mann draws…

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  • Why We Must Fight Gas-fired Power Plants

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network The Ban Ki Moon U.N. Cli­mate Sum­mit is short­ly com­ing to New York City. As we march and teach work­shops at cli­mate con­ver­gences, the media is like­ly to focus on the sto­ry of the Oba­ma administration’s “Clean Pow­er Plan” mov­ing us away from coal in order to mit­i­gate cli­mate change. The sto­ry won’t be told…

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  • U.S. Natural Gas Use

    Mil­lion Cubic Feet (MMcf) of Nat­ur­al Gas Use in the U.S. Source: Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_cons_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm

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