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  • 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.…

  • Study: Logging Destabilizes Forest Soil Carbon

    - by John Cramer, Decem­ber 2, 2014, Dart­mouth College Log­ging does­n’t imme­di­ate­ly jet­ti­son car­bon stored in a forest’s min­er­al soils into the atmos­phere but trig­gers a grad­ual release that may con­tribute to cli­mate change over decades, a Dart­mouth Col­lege study finds. The results are the first evi­dence of a region­al trend of low­er car­bon pools in soils…

  • Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign Beyond its Shortcomings

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­workOcto­ber 2014 Some­times, envi­ron­men­tal move­ment cam­paigns that become very pop­u­lar aren’t the ones that are the most strate­gic. Try­ing to divert the fos­sil fuel divest­ment band­wag­on to a bet­ter path hasn’t been easy (or well-received), but some crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion is long overdue. As activists like to point out, we don’t have…

  • Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial

    (Graph­ic: Indi­ana Joel) We’re all famil­iar with cli­mate change deniers, cheer­ful­ly and/or will­ful­ly igno­rant folk who refuse to accept that human-caused car­bon emis­sions are respon­si­ble for the cli­mate cri­sis — or that there even is a cli­mate cri­sis. Those of us who val­ue sci­ence and com­mon sense typ­i­cal­ly have as much patience for these twen­ty-three per­cent of Amer­i­cans…

  • Why We Must Fight Gas-fired Power Plants

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network The Ban Ki Moon U.N. Cli­mate Sum­mit is short­ly com­ing to New York City. As we march and teach work­shops at cli­mate con­ver­gences, the media is like­ly to focus on the sto­ry of the Oba­ma administration’s “Clean Pow­er Plan” mov­ing us away from coal in order to mit­i­gate cli­mate change. The sto­ry won’t be told…

  • Biomass Incinerators Sue Feds for $22 Million

    - by Maeusz Perkosw­ki, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, Cap­i­tal Press Two bio­mass facil­i­ties in Cal­i­for­nia that use agri­cul­tur­al waste to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty claim the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment owes them about $22 million. The plain­tiffs — Amper­sand Chow­chilla Bio­mass and Merced Pow­er — claim the U.S. Trea­sury Depart­ment is wrong­ly with­hold­ing funds from an eco­nom­ic stim­u­lus pro­gram that helps pay…

  • Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too

    - by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Wash­ing­ton Post The Post’s Aug. 28 edi­to­r­i­al “An answer to glob­al warm­ing” made good points about a car­bon tax. How­ev­er, a seri­ous prob­lem that was not men­tioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from bio­mass ener­gy sources, such as burn­ing wood in pow­er plants. Most pro­posed car­bon con­trol schemes…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Public Opposition Spurs County to Delay New Biomass Facility

    [Inter­est­ing piece by indus­try PR per­son in regards to deal­ing with pub­lic oppo­si­tion to dirty ener­gy projects. ‑Ed.] - by Al Maior­i­no, Sep­tem­ber 2, 2014, Renew­able Ener­gy Magazine Tran­syl­va­nia Coun­ty in North Car­oli­na is cur­rent­ly engaged in inten­sive inter­nal debate about the role of bio­mass in their future. The cur­rent state of affairs began last year…