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  • How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets

    How Europe can Help Oba­ma Achieve U.S. Cli­mate Targets - by Glenn Hurowitz, June 28, 2013. Source: Grist As the glob­al leader of cli­mate action, Euro­pean gov­ern­ments want to know how Pres­i­dent Obama’s major cli­mate speech affects Europe – and par­tic­u­lar­ly whether the actions he out­lined can allow the Unit­ed States to reach its com­mit­ment to reduce…

  • Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration

    Aus­tralia to Reverse Ban on Native For­est Incineration - by Jen­ny Weber, Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Centre  Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state gov­ern­ment has announced plans to allow native forests to be logged and burnt for elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion. Remov­ing a ban on burn­ing native for­est wood for elec­tric­i­ty would give a green light for the con­struc­tion…

  • Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner

    Cel­lu­losic Ethanol Refin­ery Pro­pos­al Los­es Major Part­ner  - by War­ren John­ston, August 11, 2013. Source: Val­ley News [For more infor­ma­tion on this facil­i­ty please read “Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand”] Mas­co­ma Corp., the Lebanon-based devel­op­er of cut­ting-edge bio­fu­els tech­nol­o­gy, has lost its major part­ner in a pro­posed $233 mil­lion ethanol plant in Michigan.  Although Mas­co­ma did not con­firm…

  • ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” (August 2013)

    Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign — Nation­al Con­fer­ence Call Notes Thurs­day, August 1, 2013 at 3pm EST Top­ic: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Car­bon Stan­dards for Bio­mass Indus­try” — What does the recent U.S. Court of Appeals deci­sion (Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty v. EPA) mean for the future of indus­tri­al-scale bio­mass incin­er­a­tion in the U.S.? Guest Speak­er: Kevin Bundy,…

  • Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K.

    Bio­mass Fuel Sub­si­dies to be Capped in U.K. - by Roger Harra­bin, July 16, 2013. Source: BBC The gov­ern­ment is turn­ing away from its con­tro­ver­sial pol­i­cy of sub­si­dis­ing UK pow­er sta­tions to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty from burn­ing wood. It is propos­ing that sub­si­dies for bespoke bio­mass burn­ing plants should be capped at 400 MW. It will end sub­si­dies for bio­mass…

  • Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests

    Tim­ber Indus­try Dis­torts Infor­ma­tion to Exploit Our Forests - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, July 11, 2013. Source: Register-Guard Swan­son sup­pos­ed­ly states just the facts regard­ing Ore­gon’s forests and indus­try, but instead dis­torts them. Swan­son is con­nect­ed to the Swan­son Group, a fam­i­ly that owns mills depen­dent on pub­lic timber. Her bias may be expect­ed, but her…

  • Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution

    Bio­mass and Oth­er Tran­si­tion Fuels are a False Solution - by Karen Orr, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Clean, tru­ly renew­able ener­gy could ful­ly pow­er a large elec­tric grid 99.9 per­cent of the time by 2030, accord­ing to recent research pub­lished by the Jour­nal of Pow­er Sources. This can be done eco­nom­i­cal­ly and with­out gov­ern­ment sub­si­dies if…

  • Biomass Industry Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into European Resource Colony

    Bio­mass Indus­try Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into Euro­pean Resource Colony Think the days of Europe exploit­ing the U.S. as a resource colony are behind us? Wel­come back to the 18th century.  A July Bio­mass Mag­a­zine and Pel­let Mill Mag­a­zine webi­nar series, “Sat­is­fy­ing Europe’s Grow­ing Appetite for Amer­i­can Wood Pel­lets,” lays out the bio­mass industry’s dis­turb­ing plans to con­vert North Amer­i­can…

  • Oregon Biomass Battleground

    Ore­gon: Bio­mass Battleground - by Saman­tha Chir­il­lo, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Tim­ber Town Eugene, Ore­gon buzzes along near­ly obliv­i­ous to the for­est destruc­tion and her­bi­cide poi­son­ing around it. Much like a frog in a pot of water brought to a slow boil, the tim­ber indus­try relies on what anthro­pol­o­gist and author Jared Dia­mond referred to as…

  • Burning Wood is Not the Solution to Climate Change

    Burn­ing Wood is Not the Solu­tion to Cli­mate Change - by Sophie Bastable, Biofuelwatch Under the guise of ‘green ener­gy’, burn­ing wood in pow­er sta­tions has become a mas­sive growth indus­try in the UK, with by far the biggest demand com­ing from coal-fired pow­er sta­tion oper­a­tors. So far, five of them have announced plans to…