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  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    - by Erin Voegele, Decem­ber 3, 2014, Bio­mass Mag­a­zine   The U.S. Cen­sus Bureau recent­ly released new eco­nom­ic cen­sus sta­tis­tics on renew­able ener­gy, report­ing that rev­enues for elec­tric pow­er gen­er­a­tion indus­tries that use renew­able ener­gy resources increased 49 per­cent from 2007 to 2012, reach­ing $9.8 bil­lion. In 2007, rev­enue was only $6.6 bil­lion. Bio­mass is among the…

  • Over 1,200 New Biomass Incinerators to be Constructed Within the Next 10 Years?

    - Decem­ber 4, 2014, AltEner­gy­Mag Elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion from sol­id bio­mass con­tin­ues to increase through­out the world. In late 2013, around 2,800 oper­a­tional pow­er plants world­wide were incin­er­at­ing bio­mass only or very large shares of this fuel. These plants had an elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of about 42 GWel. Addi­tion­al­ly, around 350 fos­sil pow­er plants were co-incin­er­at­ing bio­mass.…

  • Industry Take: How Will 2014 Elections Impact Biomass?

    - by Bob Cleaves, Novem­ber 23, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On Nov. 4, Amer­i­cans vot­ed. This elec­tion was a deci­sive vic­to­ry for Repub­li­cans. Sen­ate, House, guber­na­to­r­i­al and even state leg­is­la­ture races across the coun­try saw con­ser­v­a­tives pre­vail. These results were expect­ed, sur­pris­ing to polit­i­cal types only in the thor­ough­ness of the wins across the board. What does this…

  • Florida Waste Company Seeks to Close Incinerator, Transfer Trash

    - by Brit­tany Wall­man, Decem­ber 9, 2014, Sun Sen­tinel Neigh­bors of the “Mount Trash­more” land­fill in north­ern Broward descend­ed on Coun­ty Hall Tues­day, wor­ried about plans to close a trash-burn­ing incin­er­a­tor in the region. Hun­dreds piled into Coun­ty Com­mis­sion cham­bers, some hav­ing arrived on a bus from the Wyn­moor Vil­lage senior con­do coum­mu­ni­ty in Coconut Creek.…

  • October/November issue of Energy Justice Now | Where the Climate March Tripped Up

    Take a deep breath and pre­pare your­self for the Octo­ber / Novem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now, a forum for the dirty ener­gy resistance. Fos­sil Fuel Divestment - Fos­sil Fuel Divest­ment: How to Evolve the Campaign -  Are Car­bon Tax­es Anoth­er False Solution? -  Bio­mass Ener­gy: Anoth­er Kind of Cli­mate Change Denial …and more! Please share the Octo­ber /…

  • Biomass Incinerator a Threat to Children

    - by Nor­ma Kreilein, MD, Fel­low of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pediatrics [The bio­mass facil­i­ty pro­posed for Jasper, Indi­ana referred to in this let­ter was can­celed this year thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kreilein and Healthy Dubois Coun­ty –Ed.] I am writ­ing as a con­cerned pedi­a­tri­cian in South­ern Indi­ana. We live in the heart of…

  • Bioenergy Capacity Continues to Increase

    - by Erin Voegele, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has released the Sep­tem­ber issue of its Elec­tric Pow­er Month­ly report, indi­cat­ing total in-ser­vice bioen­er­gy capac­i­ty equaled 13,431.4 MW as of the close of July, up from 13,368.4 MW at the close of June. Over­all, 313 MW of new bioen­er­gy capac­i­ty was…

  • Oregon Site Selected for Biofuel Plant

    - by Eric Morten­son, Sep­tem­ber 19, 2014, Cap­i­tal Press Red Rock Bio­fu­els, a sub­sidiary of IR1 Group of Fort Collins, Colo., will use for­est bio­mass — debris from log­ging or thin­ning oper­a­tions — to pro­duce fuel. It is one of three firms select­ed for the project, which is intend­ed to pro­duce a com­bined total of 100 mil­lion…

  • Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Set to Drive Biomass Demand

    - by David App­le­yard, Sep­tem­ber 3, 2014, Cogen­er­a­tion and Onsite Pow­er Production New analy­sis from the Inter­na­tion­al Renew­able Ener­gy Agency (IRENA) fore­casts com­bined heat and pow­er (CHP) and indus­tri­al heat demand are set to dri­ve glob­al bioen­er­gy con­sump­tion over the com­ing decade and more. Accord­ing to Glob­al Bioen­er­gy Sup­ply and Demand pro­jec­tions, a work­ing paper for REmap 2030, glob­al bio­mass demand could dou­ble…

  • 300 Fracked Gas Power Plants Proposed in 45 States: Any Near You? [Energy Justice Now, Sept. 2014]

    Ready or not, here it comes: the Sep­tem­ber issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now! Inside this issue: - “Why We Must Fight Gas-Fired Pow­er Plants” - “Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer: Stand­ing With Com­mu­ni­ties in the Shale­fields” - “What the Frack? Scrap­ing the Bot­tom of the Oil Bar­rel” …and more!!! Please share the Sep­tem­ber 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with your friends,…