Category: Blog entry

  • 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 –…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Great news about Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor

    Con­grat­u­la­tions to Cit­i­zens Aware­ness Net­work and NIRS! Ver­mont Yan­kee is final­ly sched­uled to close next year.

  • 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…