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Tag: biofuels

  • 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…

  • High-Grade Wood Going to Nova Scotia Biomass Incinerator

    - by Tom Ayer , May 12, 2014, Source: Cape Bre­ton Bureau Pho­to: Erin Pot­tie, Cape Bre­ton Bureau Top sto­ries in Halifax Busi­ness own­ers in Cape Bre­ton who rely on the for­est for a liv­ing say high-qual­i­ty hard­woods are mak­ing their way into Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass plant in Point Tup­per, con­sum­ing a wood sup­ply that…

  • EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”

    [Con­tact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include bio­mass ener­gy in their plans. ‑Ed.]  - Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seek­ing pub­lic com­ments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Pow­er­ing America’s Land Ini­tia­tive. The pro­gram pro­motes renew­able ener­gy devel­op­ment on cur­rent and for­mer­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed lands,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia

    -  Rachel Brighton, Octo­ber 10, 2014, The Chron­i­cle Herald [More evi­dence of bio­mass ener­gy com­pet­ing for lim­it­ed wood source.] Open­ing up long-term access to west­ern Crown lands will relieve some of the pres­sure that has been build­ing in the forestry sec­tor this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and man­u­fac­tur­ers had been grant­ed 10-year…

  • Bioenergy Pipelines?

    - August 14, 2014, Waste Man­age­ment World [The lat­est bad idea com­ing out of the pol­lut­ing bioen­er­gy industry.] A sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta, Cana­da is research to deter­mine whether it’s effec­tive to use pipelines to trans­port agri­cul­tur­al waste used in biofuels. Accord­ing to the uni­ver­si­ty, Mah­di Vaezi, a PhD stu­dent in the Fac­ul­ty of Engi­neer­ing, is…