Category: Blog entry

  • Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up

    - by Michael Mccord, Novem­ber 26, 2014, New Hamp­shire Busi­ness Review New Hampshire’s recent­ly released 10-year ener­gy strat­e­gy acknowl­edged an ongo­ing fact of life for the state’s com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial sec­tors: New Hamp­shire imports 100 per­cent of its fos­sil fuels and nat­ur­al gas. Accord­ing to the NH Wood Ener­gy Coun­cil, New Hamp­shire pays more than $1…

  • VICTORY: Environmental Justice and Zero Waste Win over Increased Trash Burning in Minneapolis, MN

    Min­neapo­lis res­i­dents have just stopped the planned expan­sion of the trash incin­er­a­tor in their city, and have set their coun­ty on the path to zero waste! The Hen­nepin Ener­gy Recov­ery Cen­ter (HERC), is capa­ble of burn­ing 1,212 tons of trash a day, but has been lim­it­ed by per­mits to burn­ing 1,000 tons/day. The coun­ty has been seek­ing to…

  • Tire Burner Stopped in White Deer, PA!

    First major vic­to­ry of the year… a com­mu­ni­ty we’ve been sup­port­ing since Octo­ber 2011 to stop a planned tire incin­er­a­tor just won! In White Deer Town­ship, Union Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia, En-Tire Logis­tics pro­posed the White Deer Ener­gy Project, which would have burned tires to pow­er the Nation­al Gyp­sum plant next door. The com­pa­ny pulled out of the project, with­draw­ing…

  • Thanks for the Support!

    Our end of the year fundrais­ing dri­ve raised a record $10,000 in donations! Thanks to every­one for the sup­port and we will be fight­ing hard for and with you in 2014.

  • Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign Coordinator in Jeopardy

    Dear Bio­mass Busters, As most of you know, I have been a coor­di­na­tor for the nation­al Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign for the past cou­ple years. This year the amaz­ing Saman­tha Chir­il­lo joined me as co-coor­di­na­tor, based in the bio­mass bat­tle­ground state of Ore­gon. Togeth­er, work­ing with all of you great bio-masochists, we’ve pushed back hard against…

  • Baltimore students rally against giant waste incinerator

    Yes­ter­day, we joined the high school stu­dents in Bal­ti­more for their excel­lent 100-strong march/rally against a plan for the nation’s largest waste incin­er­a­tor, planned by Ener­gy Answers with­in a mile of their school in one of the nation’s most pol­lut­ed zip codes. It would burn 4,000 tons/day of trash, tires, shred­ded cars and wood waste, not…

  • What if Energy Justice Network Pulled the Plug…?

    What if Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work Pulled the Plug…? Ill­ness. Loss of a job. Divorce. Three of the most stress­ful things that can hap­pen to you. Liv­ing near a dirty ener­gy facil­i­ty is also right up there near the top of the list. The shad­ow of uncer­tain­ty, wor­ry, and frus­tra­tion that the pro­pos­al of a pol­lut­ing bio­mass or trash…

  • Battle for Arctic Energy

    CNBC By Reuters Decem­ber 10, 2013 Pre­dis­dent Vladimir Putin ordered Rus­si­a’s Mil­i­tary to increase its focus on the Arc­tic and fin­ish plans by the end of the year to upgrade mil­i­tary bases in the resource-rich region where world pow­ers jos­tle for control. Speak­ing to Defence Min­is­ter Sergei Shoigu, Putin praised the mil­i­tary’s work in the Arc­tic,…

  • West Coast Wood Exports Undercut Economy and Environment

    West Coast Wood Exports Under­cut Econ­o­my and Environment - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Since the Euro­pean Union (EU) coun­tries set high car­bon reduc­tion stan­dards and count­ed bio­mass ener­gy as car­bon neu­tral and renew­able, bio­mass exports from the south­east­ern U.S. have skyrocketed. Now, as Japan looks for an alter­na­tive to nuclear ener­gy, as U.S. cor­po­ra­tions…

  • AUDIO: “Exporting Our Forests and Economy” ANTI-BIOMASS INCINERATION CAMPAIGN CALL (December 2013)

    Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign — Nation­al Con­fer­ence Call  Thurs­day, Decem­ber 5, 2013 TOPIC: “Export­ing Our Forests and Economy” RECORDING: Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Noise – Decem­ber 2013 We dis­cuss the eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of ship­ping logs, wood pel­lets, and oth­er for­est prod­ucts over­seas from the West and East coasts in the U.S. Guest speak­ers: -Roy Keene, Pub­lic Inter­est Forester-Greg Palle­sen, Asso­ci­a­tion…