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  • Questions of Reliability at Gainesville, Florida’s Biomass Generator Raises Concerns

    - Decem­ber 17, 2014, Before It’s News In Decem­ber 2013, the GREC Bio­mass gen­er­a­tor was tak­en off-line to install noise-absorb­ing pan­els inside the main stack in an effort to qui­et numer­ous noise com­plaints from res­i­dents liv­ing in Turkey Creek and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties. Even while noise and dust com­plaits con­tin­ue, GRU/GREC, the City of Gaiesville and Alachua Coun­ty…

  • Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud

    - by Susan Sal­is­bury, Decem­ber 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post     A Tam­pa man was sen­tenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 mil­lion after promis­ing returns on bio-ener­gy crops such as cameli­na that were not even planted William A. Vas­den Jr. who once head­ed the Flori­da Feed­stock Grow­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, was sen­tenced…

  • 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.…

  • Biomass Investigative Review Will Begin Soon in Gainesville, FL

    - Octo­ber 16, 2014, WCJB It’s offi­cial — an inves­tiga­tive review into deci­sions made between GRU and GREC offi­cials will soon begin. City offi­cials vot­ed to approve the con­tract to begin the review that will ques­tion deci­sions made relat­ing to the bio­mass plant. The city will be shelling out close to $190,000 for the review. Addi­tion­al costs will…

  • Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator

    -  by Mor­gan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local res­i­dents wor­ried about the bio­mass plant showed up Tues­day evening for a pub­lic meet­ing on its draft Title V air oper­a­tion per­mit, which could be approved this fall, to make their con­cerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Com­mu­ni­ty Room at the Gainesville Police Depart­ment…

  • Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator

    -  by Mor­gan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local res­i­dents wor­ried about the bio­mass plant showed up Tues­day evening for a pub­lic meet­ing on its draft Title V air oper­a­tion per­mit, which could be approved this fall, to make their con­cerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Com­mu­ni­ty Room at the Gainesville Police Depart­ment…