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  • 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…

  • July issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity

    Are you ready for the July issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now?! -“Why Sol­i­dar­i­ty is Need­ed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incin­er­a­tor Fight­ers” -“The Ten Com­mand­ments of Move­ment Sol­i­dar­i­ty”  -“Cow­ard­ly Cli­mate Report Urges Busi­ness as Usu­al” …and more!!! Please share the July 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with your friends, col­leagues, neigh­bors, media, and…

  • Natural Gas + Ethanol = Explosion

    - by Lar­ry Phillips, June 30, 2014, Leader and Times academized.com Leader & Times Online Fire­fight­ers respond­ed to an explo­sion Sun­day evening at Con­esto­ga Energy’s Arkalon Ethanol Plant. For­tu­nate­ly, no one was injured from the blast or sub­se­quent fire, accord­ing to Seward Coun­ty Fire Chief Mike Rice. “We got the page at 7:04 p.m. (Sun­day) about a pos­si­ble…

  • The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity

    After a decade of grass­roots advo­ca­cy, my per­son­al belief is that the great­est obsta­cle to pos­i­tive change in the world isn’t cor­po­ra­tions, the gov­ern­ment, or the 1%, but lack of move­ment solidarity. And no, I’m not pre­tend­ing to be some mod­ern day Moses bring­ing the divine truths down from the moun­tain. I’m just some­one who…

  • Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule

    - by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its deci­sion on the U.S. EPA’s Tai­lor­ing Rule. While the court inval­i­dat­ed a por­tion of the rule, it essen­tial­ly held up EPA’s abil­i­ty to reg­u­late green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions for cer­tain facil­i­ties, specif­i­cal­ly those required to obtain a Pre­ven­tion…

  • Cowardly Climate Report Urges Business as Usual

    - by Shan­non Wil­son, Eco Advo­cates Northwest bellona.org The Nation­al Cli­mate Assess­ment Report released by the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion in May revealed some harsh truths about the cli­mate chaos our species is fac­ing. How­ev­er, a stu­dious read­ing of the report will show that it mere­ly pro­vides cov­er for busi­ness as usu­al, green­wash­es the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, and pro­motes destruc­tive solu­tions such as…

  • 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…

  • Solar Power Heats 90% of Community’s Homes…in Canada

    - Drake Land­ing Solar Community The Drake Land­ing Solar Com­mu­ni­ty (DLSC) is a mas­ter planned neigh­bour­hood in the Town of Oko­toks, Alber­ta, Cana­da that has suc­cess­ful­ly inte­grat­ed Cana­di­an ener­gy effi­cient tech­nolo­gies with a renew­able, unlim­it­ed ener­gy source — the sun. The first of its kind in North Amer­i­ca, DLSC is heat­ed by a dis­trict sys­tem designed to…

  • Energy Justice Now — A Forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance [June 2014]

    Check out the inau­gur­al June 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now! In the June issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now (a forum for the dirty ener­gy resistance): -“Why Sol­i­dar­i­ty is Need­ed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incin­er­a­tor Fight­ers” -“Pub­lic Lands, Dirty Ener­gy” -“On the Dirty Ener­gy Pol­i­cy Front” …and more!!! Please share the June 2014 issue…