Category: Blog entry

  • Oregon Biomass Battleground

    Ore­gon: Bio­mass Battleground - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Tim­ber Town Eugene, Ore­gon buzzes along near­ly obliv­i­ous to the for­est destruc­tion and her­bi­cide poi­son­ing around it. Much like a frog in a pot of water brought to a slow boil, the tim­ber indus­try relies on what anthro­pol­o­gist and author Jared Dia­mond referred to as…

  • The NRA and the Anti-Biomass Movement

    The NRA and the Anti-Bio­mass Movement  Don’t wor­ry. This arti­cle won’t flesh out the argu­ments for or against an assault weapons ban, manda­to­ry back­ground checks, or restric­tions on mag­a­zine size. It doesn’t actu­al­ly have any­thing to do with guns at all. Whether you think the Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) is a fortress of free­dom or a…

  • Waste to Energy a Health Hazard?

    Waste to Ener­gy a Health Hazard? - by Mark Mar­tin, June 23, 2013. Source: Chris­t­ian Broad­cast­ing Net­work  Do you know where your trash goes? Land­fills aren’t the only option. Some goes toa  plant, where it’s burned for ener­gy. But some believe that may not be such a good idea. Like a giant claw, a huge crane slow­ly descends…

  • Largest Biomass Incinerator in the World Shuts Down

    Largest Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor in the World Shuts Down - by Jan Hro­mad­ko, July 8, 2013. Source: Euro Investor  RWE AG (RWE.XE) said Mon­day it has aban­doned plans to extend the oper­at­ing life of the world’s largest bio­mass-fired pow­er plant, cit­ing poor ener­gy demand, low pow­er prices and a heavy debt load for forc­ing the Ger­man util­i­ty to cut…

  • Burning Wood is Not the Solution to Climate Change

    Burn­ing Wood is Not the Solu­tion to Cli­mate Change - by Sophie Bastable, Biofuelwatch Under the guise of ‘green ener­gy’, burn­ing wood in pow­er sta­tions has become a mas­sive growth indus­try in the UK, with by far the biggest demand com­ing from coal-fired pow­er sta­tion oper­a­tors. So far, five of them have announced plans to…

  • Biofuels and Biomass Lose Favor: Investors Beware!

    Bio­fu­els and Bio­mass Lose Favor: Investors Beware! - by Rachel Smolk­er, Biofuelwatch Hav­ing spent the past eight years or so of my life fight­ing back against large-scale com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al bioen­er­gy, it feels good to final­ly see the tides turn­ing, albeit slow­ly, maybe not always for the right rea­sons, and per­haps too lit­tle too late.…

  • End of the Road for Greenfield, MA Biomass Incinerator

    END OF THE ROAD FOR GREENFIELD BIOMASS PROJECT Con­tact: Janet Sin­clair 413–625-2886 / 413–478-4333 Con­cerned Cit­i­zens of Franklin Coun­ty Green­field, MA July 18, 2013  The plain­tiffs appeal­ing the Green­field, MA Zon­ing Board deci­sion to grant a Spe­cial Per­mit for a 47 Megawatt bio­mass pow­er plant filed a request in the Franklin Supe­ri­or Court to annul the…

  • Seneca Biomass Incinerator Requests Increase in Pollution Cap

    Seneca Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tor Requests Increase in Pol­lu­tion Cap - by Diane Dietz, July 17, 2013. Source: The Register-Guard  The own­ers of a 2½-year-old elec­tric­i­ty plant fueled with log­ging scraps have strug­gled to meet clean air stan­dards since the facil­i­ty began oper­a­tions on the out­skirts of Eugene and are ask­ing reg­u­la­tors for a lit­tle more lee­way to pollute.  Seneca…

  • Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry

    Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Car­bon Stan­dards for Bio­mass Industry - by Jere­my P. Jacobs and Jean Chem­nick, July 12, 2013. Source: Envi­ron­ment and Ener­gy Daily A three-judge pan­el scrapped a U.S. EPA rule today that had giv­en bio­mass-burn­ing facil­i­ties a pass on com­pli­ance with fed­er­al green­house gas emis­sion standards. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

  • Biomass Opponents Take on Congress

    Bio­mass Oppo­nents Take on Congress Eighty-five orga­ni­za­tions from twen­ty-six states (and count­ing) have signed on to a let­ter to U.S. Sen­a­tor Ron Wyden (D‑OR), Chair­man of the U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Ener­gy and Nat­ur­al Resources, insist­ing that the Sen­a­tor pro­tect Amer­i­cans from harm­ful air pol­lu­tion by end­ing his sup­port for bio­mass incineration. The let­ter, writ­ten by…