Category: Blog entry

  • New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout

    New York Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Awaits $100 Mil­lion Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hud­son News Network The Tay­lor Bio­mass waste-to-ener­gy project has had the sup­port of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Mal­oney, D‑Cold Spring, since his can­di­da­cy for Con­gress last year. The Orange Coun­ty facil­i­ty is await­ing a $100 mil­lion loan guar­an­tee from the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy and…

  • Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City

    Gainesville, FL Bio­mass Set­tle­ment Offer Would Alter Con­tract with City - by Christo­pher Cur­ry, August 15, 2013. Source: The Gainesville Sun  The bio­mass plant com­pa­ny has sent Gainesville its terms for drop­ping a $50 mil­lion arbi­tra­tion coun­ter­claim and some city offi­cials say the terms are unacceptable. The Gainesville Renew­able Ener­gy Cen­ter seeks no mon­ey to set­tle. Instead, GREC,…

  • Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner

    Cel­lu­losic Ethanol Refin­ery Pro­pos­al Los­es Major Part­ner  - by War­ren John­ston, August 11, 2013. Source: Val­ley News [For more infor­ma­tion on this facil­i­ty please read “Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand”] Mas­co­ma Corp., the Lebanon-based devel­op­er of cut­ting-edge bio­fu­els tech­nol­o­gy, has lost its major part­ner in a pro­posed $233 mil­lion ethanol plant in Michigan.  Although Mas­co­ma did not con­firm…

  • ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” (August 2013)

    Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign — Nation­al Con­fer­ence Call Notes Thurs­day, August 1, 2013 at 3pm EST Top­ic: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Car­bon Stan­dards for Bio­mass Indus­try” — What does the recent U.S. Court of Appeals deci­sion (Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty v. EPA) mean for the future of indus­tri­al-scale bio­mass incin­er­a­tion in the U.S.? Guest Speak­er: Kevin Bundy,…

  • Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K.

    Bio­mass Fuel Sub­si­dies to be Capped in U.K. - by Roger Harra­bin, July 16, 2013. Source: BBC The gov­ern­ment is turn­ing away from its con­tro­ver­sial pol­i­cy of sub­si­dis­ing UK pow­er sta­tions to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty from burn­ing wood. It is propos­ing that sub­si­dies for bespoke bio­mass burn­ing plants should be capped at 400 MW. It will end sub­si­dies for bio­mass…

  • Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests

    Tim­ber Indus­try Dis­torts Infor­ma­tion to Exploit Our Forests - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, July 11, 2013. Source: Register-Guard Swan­son sup­pos­ed­ly states just the facts regard­ing Ore­gon’s forests and indus­try, but instead dis­torts them. Swan­son is con­nect­ed to the Swan­son Group, a fam­i­ly that owns mills depen­dent on pub­lic timber. Her bias may be expect­ed, but her…

  • Biofuel Program could Invite Giant Grass Invasion

    Bio­fu­el Pro­gram could Invite Giant Grass Invasion - by John Upton, July 2013. Source: Grist  Here’s anoth­er envi­ron­men­tal incen­tive to ditch the car: That gas you buy at the pump could soon be help­ing tow­er­ing inva­sive grass­es wreak hav­oc on America’s ecosystems. The EPA recent­ly approved the use of giant reed and napi­er grass as bio­fu­el ingre­di­ents…

  • Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution

    Bio­mass and Oth­er Tran­si­tion Fuels are a False Solution - by Karen Orr, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Clean, tru­ly renew­able ener­gy could ful­ly pow­er a large elec­tric grid 99.9 per­cent of the time by 2030, accord­ing to recent research pub­lished by the Jour­nal of Pow­er Sources. This can be done eco­nom­i­cal­ly and with­out gov­ern­ment sub­si­dies if…

  • How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists

    How To Win The Media War Against Grass­roots Activists - by Steve Horn, July 29, 2013. Source: Mint­Press News Rafael Pagan — who died in 1993 — was not invit­ed to be a part of his for­mer associate’s new firm, Mon­goven, Bis­coe & Duchin. His tac­tic of con­quer­ing and divid­ing activist move­ments and iso­lat­ing the “fanat­ic activist lead­ers”…

  • Biomass Industry Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into European Resource Colony

    Bio­mass Indus­try Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into Euro­pean Resource Colony Think the days of Europe exploit­ing the U.S. as a resource colony are behind us? Wel­come back to the 18th century.  A July Bio­mass Mag­a­zine and Pel­let Mill Mag­a­zine webi­nar series, “Sat­is­fy­ing Europe’s Grow­ing Appetite for Amer­i­can Wood Pel­lets,” lays out the bio­mass industry’s dis­turb­ing plans to con­vert North Amer­i­can…