Tag: logging

  • High-Grade Wood Going to Nova Scotia Biomass Incinerator

    - by Tom Ayer , May 12, 2014, Source: Cape Bre­ton Bureau Pho­to: Erin Pot­tie, Cape Bre­ton Bureau Top sto­ries in Halifax Busi­ness own­ers in Cape Bre­ton who rely on the for­est for a liv­ing say high-qual­i­ty hard­woods are mak­ing their way into Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass plant in Point Tup­per, con­sum­ing a wood sup­ply that…

  • Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington

    - by Kate Prenga­man, Octo­ber 29, 2014 Yaki­ma Herald-Republic Sci­en­tists are search­ing for the fuels of the future in high-tech lab­o­ra­to­ries around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new tech­nol­o­gy at a wood-chip­ping plant tucked in the for­est out­side Cle Elum. That’s because their tech­nol­o­gy runs on wood chips. Roast­ing the wood, which might…

  • Nippon Temporarily Shut Down Because of Biomass Fuel Problems at Power Plant

    - by Paul Got­tlieb, Feb­ru­ary 27, 2014. Source: Penin­su­la Dai­ly News PORT ANGELES — Fuel-sys­tem prob­lems with Nip­pon Paper Indus­tries USA’s new­ly expand­ed bio­mass cogen­er­a­tion plant have caused a two-week shut­down of the mill, accord­ing to a union official. Dar­rel Reetz, vice pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion of West­ern Pulp & Paper Work­ers Local 155, said Thurs­day he…

  • Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel

    - by Kevin Mur­phy, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald wausaudai­ly­her­ald The recent­ly built pow­er plant at Dom­tar paper mill is get­ting only 10 per­cent of its fuel from log­ging waste, which orig­i­nal­ly was sup­posed to sup­ply near­ly all of the plant’s ener­gy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 mil­lion pow­er plant went online in Novem­ber to pro­vide steam for Domtar’s paper…

  • State Allowed Logging on Plateau Above Slope of Washington Mudslide

    - by Mike Bak­er, Ken Arm­strong, and Hal Bern­ton, March 25, 2014. Source: The Seat­tle Times The plateau above the sog­gy hill­side that gave way Sat­ur­day has been logged for almost a cen­tu­ry, with hun­dreds of acres of soft­woods cut and hauled away, accord­ing to state records. But in recent decades, as the slope has become more…

  • Group Descries Logging in Northampton, MA Watershed

    - by Rebec­ca Everett, March 17, 2014. Source: Dai­ly Hamp­shire Gazette Chris Mat­era of Northamp­ton said he was dri­ving through Whate­ly to go ski­ing two weeks ago when he noticed piles of fresh-cut logs at the mouth of a trail into a forest. “I said, ‘Wait, isn’t that the water­shed?,’” he recalled recently. Mat­era, who heads…