Category: Blog entry

  • Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited

    - April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buf­fa­lo Lake for­mer­ly owned by Min­neso­ta Ener­gy is in the process of cor­rect­ing water and air qual­i­ty per­mit vio­la­tions, and must pay a $10,000 civ­il penal­ty, accord­ing to an agree­ment with the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency (MPCA). In Octo­ber 2012, Renville Coun­ty offi­cials…

  • A New Kind of Pipeline…for CO2?

    [Pipelines aren’t just for fos­sil fuels any­more. ‑Ed.] - by Rus­sell Hub­bard, April 12, 2014. Source: Oma­ha World-Herald  A Wyoming oil com­pa­ny told Nebras­ka ethanol pro­duc­ers Fri­day that a $1 bil­lion car­bon diox­ide pipeline across the state would mean up to $50 mil­lion a year in new rev­enue for them. Scott Hor­nafius, pres­i­dent of Elk Petro­le­um, said…

  • Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia

    -  Rachel Brighton, Octo­ber 10, 2014, The Chron­i­cle Herald [More evi­dence of bio­mass ener­gy com­pet­ing for lim­it­ed wood source.] Open­ing up long-term access to west­ern Crown lands will relieve some of the pres­sure that has been build­ing in the forestry sec­tor this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and man­u­fac­tur­ers had been grant­ed 10-year…

  • Bioenergy Pipelines?

    - August 14, 2014, Waste Man­age­ment World [The lat­est bad idea com­ing out of the pol­lut­ing bioen­er­gy industry.] A sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta, Cana­da is research to deter­mine whether it’s effec­tive to use pipelines to trans­port agri­cul­tur­al waste used in biofuels. Accord­ing to the uni­ver­si­ty, Mah­di Vaezi, a PhD stu­dent in the Fac­ul­ty of Engi­neer­ing, is…

  • Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington

    - by Kate Prenga­man, Octo­ber 29, 2014 Yaki­ma Herald-Republic Sci­en­tists are search­ing for the fuels of the future in high-tech lab­o­ra­to­ries around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new tech­nol­o­gy at a wood-chip­ping plant tucked in the for­est out­side Cle Elum. That’s because their tech­nol­o­gy runs on wood chips. Roast­ing the wood, which might…

  • Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents

    Since 1999, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work has worked with com­mu­ni­ties across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty ener­gy facil­i­ty — from coal and nat­ur­al-gas fired plants, to nuclear reac­tors, to bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tors — to pro­tect human health and the nat­ur­al world that keeps us alive. While count­less pol­lu­tion push­ers have been run out…

  • Money-burning Incinerator Proposed

    HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! April 1, 2014 DUNBORO — George Wash­ing­ton Renew­able Ener­gy is propos­ing the nation’s first mon­ey-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty, right here in Dun­boro. Crit­ics call it a mon­ey-burn­ing incinerator. Near­ly all of the nation’s used mon­ey is sent to land­fills, but George Wash­ing­ton Renew­able Ener­gy sees an oppor­tu­ni­ty and hopes to gen­er­ate enough elec­tric­i­ty burn­ing old…

  • NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs

    HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! - by Fiske Ster­ling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miska­ton­ic Uni­ver­si­ty in Rhode Island has con­clud­ed that air pol­lu­tion, specif­i­cal­ly par­tic­u­late mat­ter, can repair dam­aged lung tissue. The sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus up until this point had been that par­tic­u­late mat­ter — the byprod­uct of com­bus­tion from pow­er…

  • Maryland Dumps Incineration

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network VICTORY!!  For a sec­ond year in a row, pro-incin­er­a­tor leg­is­la­tion in Mary­land was defeat­ed.  This stealthy leg­is­la­tion was writ­ten by Cov­an­ta (the nation’s largest trash incin­er­a­tion com­pa­ny) and would put Mary­land on the path to burn­ing near­ly all of the waste that isn’t recycled.  The leg­is­la­tion takes the Renew­able Port­fo­lio…

  • EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision

    - by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­ment Reporter The Envi­ron­men­tal Appeals Board par­tial­ly remand­ed an air pol­lu­tion per­mit for a waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Puer­to Rico after it failed to account for green­house gas emis­sions from biomass. The Ener­gy Answers Areci­bo LLC per­mit is one of the first to address emis­sions from bio­mass in the wake of…