• 2 arrested — Sunoco cutting trees for Mariner 2 pipeline route

    Suno­co is rapid­ly cut­ting down trees on the Ger­hart’s prop­er­ty in cen­tral PA to make way for more gas to be shipped overseas. Two peo­ple were arrest­ed today, one stu­dent from Juni­a­ta Col­lege, who is alleged to have crossed into the claimed Mariner East 2 pipeline right-of-way to warn crews that a tree they were…

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  • Trash Incineration in Prince George’s County?

    Prince George’s Coun­ty is court­ing “waste-to-ener­gy” (WTE) cor­po­ra­tions to build new waste facil­i­ties that will pol­lute our com­mu­ni­ty. Cur­rent­ly our trash goes to the Brown Sta­tion San­i­tary Land­fill in Upper Marl­boro, which is sched­uled to fill up and close in 5 years at cur­rent dump­ing rates. The County’s Depart­ment of the Envi­ron­ment is mov­ing toward…

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  • How To Fight a Pipeline

    - by Alex Lotor­to, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is on the cut­ting edge of fight­ing frack­ing and relat­ed infra­struc­ture in the northeast.   It’s a spe­cial orga­niz­ing chal­lenge to fight pipelines, as we’re fight­ing a line, not a point, on the map. Com­pa­nies and agen­cies won’t release data list­ing all impact­ed landown­ers. In…

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  • Report: Climate Consequences from Logging Forests for Bioenergy

    A new report warns about the poten­tial wors­en­ing of cli­mate change from log­ging Cana­di­an forests for elec­tric­i­ty and heat, and rec­om­mends a “pre­cau­tion­ary approach” regard­ing the expan­sion of bio­mass energy. For­est Bio­mass Ener­gy Pol­i­cy in the Mar­itime Provinces, writ­ten by Jamie Simp­son for the Hal­i­fax, Nova Sco­tia-based East Coast Envi­ron­men­tal Law, eval­u­ates envi­ron­men­tal impacts from…

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  • Family defends maple syrup trees from gas pipeline

    Now through the end of March: Come up to Susque­han­na Coun­ty and defend the Holler­an fam­i­ly’s maple syrup grove from being cut down for a gas pipeline! http://wnep.com/2016/02/01/trees-on-chopping-block-for-natural-gas-pipe…“A fam­i­ly’s maple syrup oper­a­tion is in jeop­ardy in Susque­han­na County…”

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  • Bioenergy Wrecks the Climate

    – by Ellen Moy­er, Decem­ber 2, 2015, Huff­in­g­ton Post Cli­mate change is telling us to stop pitch­ing pol­lu­tion into the atmosphere–in much the same way that the bubon­ic plague taught our ances­tors to stop dump­ing filth into the streets in the Mid­dle Ages. We lis­tened then, but not now. Gov­ern­ments con­tin­ue pay­ing indus­tries huge bonus­es to release car­bon…

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  • Military Forests to Fuels in Oregon

    - by Chris Zin­da, Coun­ter­punch Goose Lake is 26 miles long and 9 miles wide, extend­ing from south cen­tral Ore­gon and into north­east­ern Cal­i­for­nia where the two meet with Neva­da. The lake used to sup­port an endem­ic form of red­band trout that act like ocean going salmon, grow­ing to giant pro­por­tions and migrat­ing up the streams…

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  • Doctor’s Orders: Wood Burning Hazardous to Your Health

    - by Dr. Bri­an Moench, Utah Physi­cians for a Healthy Environment Civ­i­liza­tion orches­trates the curb­ing of one person’s free­doms for the pro­tec­tion of oth­ers and the greater good. When two people’s free­doms are mutu­al­ly exclu­sive, civ­i­liza­tion embraces the con­cept that the free­dom to not be harmed by oth­ers takes prece­dence. Traf­fic laws, zon­ing ordi­nances, and…

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  • Study: Thinning Forests for Bioenergy Can Worsen Climate

    A new study out of the Geos Insti­tute in Ash­land, Ore­gon con­cludes that selec­tive­ly log­ging or “thin­ning” forests for bioen­er­gy can increase the amount of car­bon diox­ide in the atmos­phere and exac­er­bate cli­mate change. The study, “Thin­ning Com­bined With Bio­mass Ener­gy Pro­duc­tion May Increase, Rather Than Reduce, Green­house Gas Emis­sions,” by D.A. Del­laSala and M. Koop­man, chal­lenges…

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  • Biomass Power Facilities Idle for Months

    One of bio­mass energy’s main sell­ing points is that it’s a base­load source of ener­gy avail­able 24/7, unlike solar and wind. Despite these promises–and hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars of tax­pay­er sub­si­dies, grants and loans–several bio­mass pow­er facil­i­ties across the U.S. have been sit­ting idle for months at a time, thanks to fires, equip­ment fail­ure,…

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