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  • USDA Funds Genetic Engineering Research for Switchgrass Biofuels

    -  July 24, 2014, Farm­ers’ Advance Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty (MSU) plant biol­o­gist C. Robin Buell has been award­ed $1 mil­lion from a joint U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy and U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (USDA) pro­gram to accel­er­ate genet­ic breed­ing pro­grams to improve plant feed­stock for the pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els, bio-pow­er and bio-based products. Specif­i­cal­ly, the MSU Col­lege…

  • Biomass Rejected in Favor of Solar in Springfield, VT

    -  by Susan Small­heer, July 17, 2014, Rut­land Herald North Spring­field, Vt. — Out with bio­mass, in with solar panels. Win­stan­ley Enter­pris­es announced Wednes­day that it was seek­ing state approval to build five, 500-kilo­watt solar arrays in the North Spring­field Indus­tri­al Park. Some of the land that will be used was ear­li­er pro­posed to be the…

  • Shuttered Texas Biomass Incinerator to Reopen

    -  June 23, 2014, Bioen­er­gy Insight Inven­tivEn­er­gy, an asset man­age­ment firm, has select­ed NRG Ener­gy Ser­vices, a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of NRG Ener­gy, to restart the Aspen Pow­er bio­mass plant locat­ed in Lufkin, Texas. NRG will also oper­ate and main­tain the facil­i­ty once it resumes oper­a­tion. The plant first opened in August 2011 and was the…

  • Activists Shut Down Seneca Biomass Incinerator in Eugene, Oregon

    - by Cas­ca­dia For­est Defend­ers, July 7, 2014, For­est Defense Now Scores of activists with Cas­ca­dia For­est Defend­ers and Earth First! con­verged on the Seneca Jones bio­mass plant this morn­ing to protest the company’s pri­va­ti­za­tion of pub­lic lands in the Elliott State For­est and ongo­ing pol­lu­tion in West Eugene. Cur­rent­ly sev­er­al peo­ple have locked them­selves to…

  • On Biomass, EPA Should Follow the Science

    Oth­er than the author’s sup­port for so-called “sus­tain­able” bio­mass, over­all a decent piece. — Josh - by William H. Schlesinger, June 18, 2014, The Hill In America’s South­east­ern states, there’s a boom­ing ener­gy trend that’s as big a step back­ward as imaginable. In fact, it stretch­es back to the time of cave­men. Pow­er com­pa­nies are burn­ing trees…

  • Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State

    - by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hamp­shire Pub­lic Radio About 51 per­cent of the wood pur­chased for the new Burgess BioPow­er bio­mass plant in Berlin dur­ing its first two months of oper­a­tion came from New Hamp­shire, accord­ing to a new “sus­tain­abil­i­ty” report filed with the state’s Site Eval­u­a­tion Committee. Thir­ty-five per­cent came from Maine. Five per­cent from Vermont.…

  • Couple Suing Iowa Ethanol Plant

    - May 21, 2014, WhoTV.com   localtvwhotv.wordpress.com A Neva­da cou­ple is suing a cel­lu­losic ethanol plant after a fire threat­ened their home. Ernest and Bar­bara Clark are suing DuPont Danisco. They are claim­ing the com­pa­ny has act­ed reck­less­ly and care­less­ly in stor­ing the high­ly com­bustible corn stover across from their home. On March 31st, at least eight of the…

  • Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?

    - by Nico­las Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Sen­ate con­sid­er­ing extend­ing a pack­age of tax cred­its that expired at the end of 2013, six Sen­a­tors have band­ed togeth­er to call on Con­gress to re-up the expired bio­fu­el credits. In par­tic­u­lar, tax cred­its of $1 per gal­lon pro­duced was offered for blend­ed diesel made…

  • Biofuels Plant Won’t Protect Us from Wildfire

    - by Vir­ginia Moran, May 16, 2014, Source: The Union Regard­ing the pro­posed “bio­fu­els” plant (i.e. accel­er­a­tion of cli­mate change) project, here is what I find “scary”: that res­i­dents of west­ern Neva­da Coun­ty are nev­er allowed to live our lives in peace. If we are twitchy and irri­ta­ble it is because we are con­stant­ly on guard…

  • Biomass Burner Short on Fuel

    - by Aaron Beswick, May 15, 2014, Source: Truro Bureau Nova Sco­tia is hav­ing trou­ble keep­ing up with the require­ment for fibre at the bio­mass boil­er at Point Tup­per, says the nat­ur­al resources minister. “There’s not enough fibre right now in the province to sup­port demands placed on that sec­tor,” Zach Churchill said Thurs­day, refer­ring to…