Tag: biomess

  • Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise

    - Decem­ber 11, 2014, Asso­ci­at­ed Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-cen­tral Min­neso­ta city of Win­neba­go has agreed to pay a $25,000 penal­ty and take steps to reduce its air pol­lu­tion and noise levels. The cor­rec­tive actions announced by the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency on Wednes­day mark the lat­est step by offi­cials to bring the…

  • Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel

    - by Kevin Mur­phy, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald wausaudai­ly­her­ald The recent­ly built pow­er plant at Dom­tar paper mill is get­ting only 10 per­cent of its fuel from log­ging waste, which orig­i­nal­ly was sup­posed to sup­ply near­ly all of the plant’s ener­gy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 mil­lion pow­er plant went online in Novem­ber to pro­vide steam for Domtar’s paper…

  • UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass

    UK bio­mass project halt­ed, devel­op­er blames “ero­sion of sup­port” for biomass – by Nina Chest­ney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renew­able ener­gy devel­op­er RES has stopped a 300-mil­lion-pound ($500 mil­lion) project to build a bio­mass plant in Northum­ber­land, north­east Eng­land, due to what it called incon­sis­tent gov­ern­ment subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was sched­uled to be…

  • UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass

    UK bio­mass project halt­ed, devel­op­er blames “ero­sion of sup­port” for biomass – by Nina Chest­ney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renew­able ener­gy devel­op­er RES has stopped a 300-mil­lion-pound ($500 mil­lion) project to build a bio­mass plant in Northum­ber­land, north­east Eng­land, due to what it called incon­sis­tent gov­ern­ment subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was sched­uled to be…