Tag: air pollution

  • Are Climate Claims for Burning Renewable Trees a Smokescreen?

    - by Robert McClure, April 21, 2014. Source: The Tyee/Investigate West Nes­tled into a sea­side for­est on the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Columbi­a’s lands, amid a car­pet of sword ferns and salal, sits a gleam­ing indus­tri­al facil­i­ty that’s been hailed as a sig­nif­i­cant step toward a car­bon-neu­tral future for B.C., Cana­da and even the world. The wood-gas fired…

  • Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited

    - April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buf­fa­lo Lake for­mer­ly owned by Min­neso­ta Ener­gy is in the process of cor­rect­ing water and air qual­i­ty per­mit vio­la­tions, and must pay a $10,000 civ­il penal­ty, accord­ing to an agree­ment with the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency (MPCA). In Octo­ber 2012, Renville Coun­ty offi­cials…

  • DTE Energy: Black Soot Irks Residents of Cassville, Wisconsin

    - by Jeff Mont­gomery, March 22, 2014. Source: THOnline.com blox­im­ages­newyork CASSVILLE, Wis. — Lin­da Hulst said she began notic­ing the soot short­ly after a near­by bio­mass plant start­ed operations. For three years, the black, char­coal-like mat­ter has sprin­kled her prop­er­ty. “Every fresh snow is cov­ered with it,” she said. “It gets on our deck, on our fur­ni­ture, on the…

  • Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints

    - April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buf­fa­lo Lake for­mer­ly owned by Min­neso­ta Ener­gy is in the process of cor­rect­ing water and air qual­i­ty per­mit vio­la­tions, and must pay a $10,000 civ­il penal­ty, accord­ing to an agree­ment with the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency (MPCA). In Octo­ber 2012, Renville Coun­ty offi­cials…

  • Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame

    [The bio­mass indus­try is team­ing up with envi­ron­men­tal­ists to increase the amount of forests burned for pol­lut­ing ener­gy in the Great North Woods.] Fan­ning the North­east­ern Bio­mass Flame - by Joseph Sey­mour, March 11, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine Migrat­ing 1 mil­lion homes to bio­mass heat is optimistic—let alone 6 million—but recent devel­op­ments in the north­east­ern U.S. are dri­ving…

  • New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts

    - by Shi­ra Schoen­berg, Decem­ber 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in Jan­u­ary will make it cheap­er to use renew­able ener­gy to heat a home – and could pro­vide a boost to the wood indus­try in rur­al parts of West­ern Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renew­able) tech­nolo­gies com­pete with and…

  • 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…

  • Campaigners Challenge Environment Agency

    Cam­paign­ers Chal­lenge Envi­ron­ment Agency - by The Breathe Clean Air Group  Traf­ford, UK-based Breathe Clean Air Group has chal­lenged the Envi­ron­ment Agency over a seri­ous irreg­u­lar­i­ty in issu­ing the con­tro­ver­sial Bar­ton Renew­able Ener­gy Plant in Greater Man­ches­ter, with an Envi­ron­men­tal Permit. Group Chair­man Pete Kil­vert has writ­ten to Sec­re­tary of State for Com­mu­ni­ties and Local Gov­ern­ment, Eric Pick­les claim­ing that the Envi­ron­ment Agency…