• 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 pay…

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  • Springfield, MA Mayor Blocks Appeal Against Biomass Incinerator

    - by Paul Tuthill, Sep­tem­ber 12, 2014, WAMC The may­or of Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts won’t autho­rize an appeal to block con­struc­tion of a wood-burn­ing pow­er plant. A spokesman for May­or Domenic Sarno said the may­or will not approve funds to appeal a court rul­ing that ordered the city to rein­state the build­ing per­mit for the bio­mass project.  The…

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  • US Forest Service Moves to Start Clearcutting in Rim Fire Area

    - by Chad Han­son, August 28, 2014, Earth Island Jour­nal  [How much of the forests that expe­ri­enced the Rim Fire will be feed­ing bio­mass incin­er­a­tors? ‑Ed.] The US For­est Ser­vice issued a draft deci­sion yes­ter­day for a mas­sive post-fire log­ging project in the Stanis­laus Nation­al For­est por­tion of the 2013 Cal­i­for­nia Rim Fire, which cov­ered 257,171 acres…

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  • Springfield, MA City Council Votes to Appeal Biomass Permit Ruling

    - by Ryan Trow­bridge, Sep­tem­ber 10, 2014, WGGB Wednes­day night, the Spring­field City Coun­cil took up the con­tentious issue of a planned bio­mass incin­er­a­tor in the city. Oppo­nents claim the plant would only add more pol­lu­tion to an already pol­lut­ed city, but the state just ruled Spring­field does not have the author­i­ty to stop its development. It’s…

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  • Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too

    - by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Wash­ing­ton Post The Post’s Aug. 28 edi­to­r­i­al “An answer to glob­al warm­ing” made good points about a car­bon tax. How­ev­er, a seri­ous prob­lem that was not men­tioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from bio­mass ener­gy sources, such as burn­ing wood in pow­er plants. Most pro­posed car­bon con­trol schemes…

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  • What the Frack? Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel is Not Good to the Last Drop

    - by Mark Robi­nowitz, PeakChoice.org The tox­ic impacts of hydraulic frac­tur­ing for oil and gas have been sub­ject to pub­lic debates, protests, and law­suits, among oth­er tac­tics to stop these dan­gers. But the oth­er half of the frack­ing sto­ry, which has had much less atten­tion, is the exag­ger­a­tion of recov­er­able reserves. The frack­ing indus­try claims shale…

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  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

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  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

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  • Public Opposition Spurs County to Delay New Biomass Facility

    [Inter­est­ing piece by indus­try PR per­son in regards to deal­ing with pub­lic oppo­si­tion to dirty ener­gy projects. ‑Ed.] - by Al Maior­i­no, Sep­tem­ber 2, 2014, Renew­able Ener­gy Magazine Tran­syl­va­nia Coun­ty in North Car­oli­na is cur­rent­ly engaged in inten­sive inter­nal debate about the role of bio­mass in their future. The cur­rent state of affairs began last year…

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  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    - by Duane Shim­gawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacif­ic Busi­ness News The only coal-fired pow­er plant in Hawaii, which is the sin­gle largest gen­er­at­ing plant on Oahu, is under finan­cial stress because there is no finan­cial reserve, accord­ing to the Hawai­ian Elec­tric Co.‘s new ener­gy plan released this week. Hawai­ian Elec­tric is also ask­ing AES Hawaiito con­vert some of the…

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