Category: Blog entry

  • A Victim of Woodsmoke Pollution

    - by Shirley Brandie, WoodBurnerSmoke.net In 2000, we bought a home to enjoy our retire­ment in. It was per­fect for us! Every­thing on one floor, a sur­round­ing deck, and a large expanse of lawn. Lit­tle did we know that, in 2002, our lives would be changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly! Begin­ning in 2002, our home became sur­round­ed and infil­trat­ed…

  • Burn It Up?

    - by Vic Ste­blin, Source: WoodBurnerSmoke.net Humans have been burn­ing for much of his­to­ry. Africa burns its savan­na annu­al­ly and the smoke can be seen from space. Aus­tralia and Mediter­ranean areas reg­u­lar­ly burn off haz­ardous under­growth. Log­ging com­pa­nies burn off residue accord­ing to pro­fes­sion­al forestry codes. Ranch­ers and farm­ers burn old grass and crops to release nutrients. Even light­ning…

  • Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?

    - by Nico­las Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Sen­ate con­sid­er­ing extend­ing a pack­age of tax cred­its that expired at the end of 2013, six Sen­a­tors have band­ed togeth­er to call on Con­gress to re-up the expired bio­fu­el credits. In par­tic­u­lar, tax cred­its of $1 per gal­lon pro­duced was offered for blend­ed diesel made…

  • Biofuels Plant Won’t Protect Us from Wildfire

    - by Vir­ginia Moran, May 16, 2014, Source: The Union Regard­ing the pro­posed “bio­fu­els” plant (i.e. accel­er­a­tion of cli­mate change) project, here is what I find “scary”: that res­i­dents of west­ern Neva­da Coun­ty are nev­er allowed to live our lives in peace. If we are twitchy and irri­ta­ble it is because we are con­stant­ly on guard…

  • Biomass Burner Short on Fuel

    - by Aaron Beswick, May 15, 2014, Source: Truro Bureau Nova Sco­tia is hav­ing trou­ble keep­ing up with the require­ment for fibre at the bio­mass boil­er at Point Tup­per, says the nat­ur­al resources minister. “There’s not enough fibre right now in the province to sup­port demands placed on that sec­tor,” Zach Churchill said Thurs­day, refer­ring to…

  • Join Energy Justice Summer in Northeast Pennsylvania!

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer Pro­mo from Alex Lotor­to on Vimeo. Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer Pro­mo from Alex Lotor­to on Vimeo. From www.energyjusticesummer.org: About We are young orga­niz­ers who care deeply about social jus­tice and human rights. We seek a world where every­one has access to sus­tain­able ener­gy and no one suf­fers unjust­ly because of our fos­sil fuel econ­o­my. We believe that frack­ing…

  • EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”

    [Con­tact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include bio­mass ener­gy in their plans. ‑Ed.]  - Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seek­ing pub­lic com­ments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Pow­er­ing America’s Land Ini­tia­tive. The pro­gram pro­motes renew­able ener­gy devel­op­ment on cur­rent and for­mer­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed lands,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • Call for Submissions: Energy Justice Now

    In June 2014, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work will be launch­ing Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — a first-of-its kind pub­li­ca­tion report­ing on the entire spec­trum of the dirty ener­gy resis­tance and high­light­ing the voic­es of com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers bat­tling fos­sil fuels, nuclear pow­er, and bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tion from sea to shin­ing sea.  We are accept­ing sub­mis­sions (200–1,000 words) on any top­ic rel­e­vant to…