Category: Blog entry
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Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries
Biomass Developer Eyes Louisiana for Three New Biofuel Refineries August 27, 2013, Source: BioEnergy News Cool Planet Energy Systems, a producer of petrol from non-food biomass, is to build three biomass-to-biofuel production plants in the US state of Louisiana for an investment of $168 million (€125.9 million). Two sites – one in Alexandria and another in Natchitoches –…
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Biomass Health Care Costs
Biomass Health Care Costs - by Dick Stokes, August 16, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Physicians warned Gainesville officials for years about the increased health risks and health-care costs from biomass-burning emissions. There’s nothing green, clean or healthy about hauling over 22 counties’ worth of wood on diesel-belching trucks every day to burn in our backyard. Dioxins, fine…
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Waste-to-Energy Incinerator License Revoked in Scotland
Waste-to-Energy Incinerator License Revoked in Scotland - August 27, 2013. Source: BBC News The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is revoking the operating licence of an energy-from-waste plant on the outskirts of Dumfries. The notice was issued to Scotgen (Dumfries) Ltd on Friday and comes into effect on 23 September. The £20m plant was the site of…
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How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets
How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets - by Glenn Hurowitz, June 28, 2013. Source: Grist As the global leader of climate action, European governments want to know how President Obama’s major climate speech affects Europe – and particularly whether the actions he outlined can allow the United States to reach its commitment to reduce…
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E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster
E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster In a misguided attempt to allegedly tackle runaway climate change, the European Union (E.U.) is implementing policy that would increase carbon dioxide emissions, displace native peoples, threaten public health, and degrade forests and watersheds. A new report, A Foreseeable Disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab,…
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Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Government agencies and policymakers have long turned a deaf ear to concerns with human health threats from biomass incineration. A new experimental study underway on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula may ultimately compel elected officials to act to protect public health from biomass incineration, while serving as a model…
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How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator
How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator - by People for Clean Mountains On July 22, 2013 the Transylvania County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners voted 3–2 to enact a one year moratorium on the development and permitting of any biomass facility producing any output. This was the culmination of four months of effort by the citizens…
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Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration
Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration - by Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced plans to allow native forests to be logged and burnt for electricity generation. Removing a ban on burning native forest wood for electricity would give a green light for the construction…
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Great news about Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor
Congratulations to Citizens Awareness Network and NIRS! Vermont Yankee is finally scheduled to close next year.
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Biomass Carpetbaggers
Biomass Carpetbaggers - by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder If Editor Blagg’s pro-biomass column was a meal I’d say it was a thin gruel of tainted leftovers along with a fruit salad loaded with sour grapes. Leaving the dinner table, we stumble onto “carpetbaggers” who Mr. Blagg identifies with the anti-biomass folks. If you…