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  • Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy

    - by Roy Keene The debate over a sin­gle wood pow­ered elec­tri­cal gen­er­a­tor in Eugene has been myopi­cal­ly focused on just one project and one pro­posed fuel source. Sup­port­ers for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s pro­posed pow­er plant have yet to pub­licly men­tion that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that this…

  • Oregon Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Biomass Air Pollution

    - by Lisa Arkin, August 6, 2014, Beyond Tox­i­cs On August 6, Beyond Tox­i­cs filed a civ­il rights and envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice com­plaint with the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) chal­leng­ing the Lane Coun­ty Region­al Air Pro­tec­tion Agency’s deci­sion to allow a pow­er plant to increase its dis­charges of haz­ardous par­tic­u­late mat­ter. The com­plaint alleges that allow­ing…

  • More Logging and Biomass Burning Won’t Solve Job Woes

    -  by Rob Handy, July 6, 2014, Reg­is­ter Guard Dur­ing my tenure as a Lane Coun­ty com­mis­sion­er, I watched Lane County’s tim­ber har­vest rise from 337 mil­lion board feet in 2009 to 590 mil­lion board feet in 2012, report­ed con­cise­ly by the state Depart­ment of Forestry. In spite of this huge surge, a 75 per­cent increase, I…