Category: Blog entry

  • Intergovernmental Climate Report Leaves Hopes Hanging on Fantasy Technology

    This year, the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (IPCC) has con­firmed for us, once again, that the plan­et is warm­ing, even more and even faster than pan­el mem­bers thought. In fact, it is get­ting even warmer even faster than they thought the last time they admit­ted to hav­ing under­es­ti­mat­ed the prob­lem. We humans are in…

  • Welcome to Energy Justice Now!

    Wel­come to Ener­gy Jus­tice Now, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s first month­ly newsletter! Ener­gy Jus­tice Now will pro­vide crit­i­cal report­ing on the entire spec­trum of the dirty ener­gy resis­tance, high­light­ing the voic­es of com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers bat­tling fos­sil fuels, nuclear pow­er, and bio­mass and waste incin­er­a­tion from sea to shin­ing sea. We are accept­ing sub­mis­sions at nia­by [at]…

  • Poll: 61% of Americans Clueless about Biomass Energy

    [Take a look at the Har­ris Poll here. — Ed.] - by Erin Voegele, March 28, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine A recent­ly released Har­ris Poll address­es pub­lic per­cep­tion of a vari­ety of ener­gy tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing bio­mass ener­gy. The results show that many U.S. adults are unfa­mil­iar with bio­mass ener­gy and its benefits. With­in its results, the com­pa­ny called…

  • Trees Are Not the Solution to Our Electricity Needs

    - by Mar­vin Rober­son, April 27, 2014. Source: Detroit Free Press There is a lot of con­cern in Michi­gan, espe­cial­ly the Upper Penin­su­la, about meet­ing future elec­tri­cal needs. Many aging, pol­lut­ing coal plants are soon to go offline, as they should. New coal plants are unlike­ly to replace them, and would be a poor choice even if…

  • Fire at Brand New Biomass Incinerator in Rothschild, Wisconsin

    -April 11, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald ROTHSCHILD — Fire­fight­ers extin­guished a blaze that ignit­ed in a dust col­lec­tor at the Dom­tar bio­mass pow­er plant ear­ly Fri­day morning. Roth­schild Fire Depart­ment crews respond­ed to the plant just before 4:30 a.m., said Chief Marc Hill. When crews got to the plant, a fire was burn­ing inside the dust col­lec­tor and…

  • Aborted Fetuses Sent to Oregon, Incinerated for Energy

    [No inten­tion of get­ting into pro-choice vs. pro-life discussion–it’s just impor­tant to know where your ener­gy comes from. ‑Ed.] - by Joe Scha­ef­fer, April 23, 2014. Source: News­max Abort­ed human fetus­es are being shipped from British Colum­bia to the Unit­ed States, where they are incin­er­at­ed to pro­vide elec­tric­i­ty for Ore­gon residents. The British Colum­bia Health Min­istry…

  • Dirty Biomass Facility Proposed for Nebraska

    - by Erin Voegele, April 25, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine A pro­posed project under devel­op­ment by South­west Renew­able Resources aims to devel­op a unique bio­mass fuel pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty and up to 25 MW of bioen­er­gy capac­i­ty in South Sioux City, Neb. Ear­li­er this year, the Nebras­ka cities of South Sioux City, Wake­field and Wayne, along with the…

  • Public Lands, Dirty Energy

    - by Josh Schloss­berg, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now Grass­roots advo­cates have done a bang up job alert­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic to the dis­turb­ing health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of the extrac­tion, trans­porta­tion, and gen­er­a­tion of dirty ener­gy (fos­sil fuels, nuclear pow­er, and biomass/trash incin­er­a­tion). Green­house gas­es, air pol­lu­tion, and water con­t­a­m­i­na­tion from ener­gy sources requir­ing smoke­stacks or cool­ing…

  • Biomass Lease Terminated by Jasper Clean Energy in Indiana

    - by Matthew Crane, April 21, 2014. Source: Dubois Coun­ty Free Press Dr. Nor­ma Kreilein, her hus­band, Mike, Alec Kalla and Rock Emmert were all in ses­sion dur­ing the Jasper Util­i­ty Ser­vice Board (USB) meet­ing Mon­day night — the eve of Earth Day — when it was announced that Jasper Clean Ener­gy would be ter­mi­nat­ing the lease to…

  • Are Climate Claims for Burning Renewable Trees a Smokescreen?

    - by Robert McClure, April 21, 2014. Source: The Tyee/Investigate West Nes­tled into a sea­side for­est on the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Columbi­a’s lands, amid a car­pet of sword ferns and salal, sits a gleam­ing indus­tri­al facil­i­ty that’s been hailed as a sig­nif­i­cant step toward a car­bon-neu­tral future for B.C., Cana­da and even the world. The wood-gas fired…