Category: Blog entry

  • Proposed Plant to Export Wood Pellets to Asia

    - Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine A pro­posed pel­let plant under devel­op­ment near Mis­sion, British Colum­bia, aims to pro­duce wood pel­lets for export into indus­tri­al mar­kets in South Korea and oth­er Asian mar­kets. The project is being devel­oped by SMG Wood Pel­let Inc., a sub­sidiary of Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia-based SMG Asset. The facil­i­ty will be brand­ed…

  • Stafford Incinerator in Virginia Not “Financially Beneficial”

    - by Neil Seld­man, August 22, 2014, Insti­tute for Local Self-Reliance The Region­al Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Board that over­sees the Coun­ty and City of Fred­er­icks­burg land­fill will not pur­sue a garbage and indus­tri­al waste incin­er­a­tion-gasi­fi­ca­tion facil­i­ty. The Coun­ty received no bid that it con­sid­ered finan­cial­ly ben­e­fi­cial to the Coun­ty and City and dropped the project. StopTheStaffordIncinerator.com has…

  • City of Allentown, PA Terminates Contract for Waste Incinerator

    - by Allen­town Res­i­dents for Clean Air, Sep­tem­ber 30, 2014, Stop the Burn The City of Allen­town is pulling out of the con­tract with Delta Ther­mo Energy. This news sure­ly spells the death of the exper­i­men­tal trash and sewage sludge incin­er­a­tor that threat­ens Allentown. HOWEVER, the company’s air and waste per­mits are still out there. The air per­mit could be sold…

  • Bioenergy Capacity Continues to Increase

    - by Erin Voegele, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has released the Sep­tem­ber issue of its Elec­tric Pow­er Month­ly report, indi­cat­ing total in-ser­vice bioen­er­gy capac­i­ty equaled 13,431.4 MW as of the close of July, up from 13,368.4 MW at the close of June. Over­all, 313 MW of new bioen­er­gy capac­i­ty was…

  • 20 Years, Yet EPA Still Fails to Protect Us From Polluting Incinerators

    - by Phillip Ellis and Neil Gorm­ley, Octo­ber 4, 2014,  Huff­in­g­ton Post Joe Poole Lake is a pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tion for Dal­las and Fort Worth res­i­dents look­ing for a week­end escape to the great out­doors. Lined with bar­be­cue grills, hik­ing trails and sandy beach­es, the 7,400-acre lake and its wood­en wel­come sign invite end­less oppor­tu­ni­ties to relax…

  • Oregon Site Selected for Biofuel Plant

    - by Eric Morten­son, Sep­tem­ber 19, 2014, Cap­i­tal Press Red Rock Bio­fu­els, a sub­sidiary of IR1 Group of Fort Collins, Colo., will use for­est bio­mass — debris from log­ging or thin­ning oper­a­tions — to pro­duce fuel. It is one of three firms select­ed for the project, which is intend­ed to pro­duce a com­bined total of 100 mil­lion…

  • Thanks to NY Biomass Incinerator, Firewood More Difficult to Find

    - by Pete Cree­don, Octo­ber 6, 2014, Water­town Dai­ly Times Always nice to see a com­pa­ny come in an offer jobs and oth­er things that will ben­e­fit the area it serves (“ReEn­er­gy wins huge con­tract at Drum,” Sept. 30). The ques­tion is, at what cost? The peo­ple this will affect in a neg­a­tive way are a small group…

  • Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Set to Drive Biomass Demand

    - by David App­le­yard, Sep­tem­ber 3, 2014, Cogen­er­a­tion and Onsite Pow­er Production New analy­sis from the Inter­na­tion­al Renew­able Ener­gy Agency (IRENA) fore­casts com­bined heat and pow­er (CHP) and indus­tri­al heat demand are set to dri­ve glob­al bioen­er­gy con­sump­tion over the com­ing decade and more. Accord­ing to Glob­al Bioen­er­gy Sup­ply and Demand pro­jec­tions, a work­ing paper for REmap 2030, glob­al bio­mass demand could dou­ble…

  • 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…

  • 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…