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  • Bulgarians Blockade Road to Protest Proposed Biomass Incinerator

    - Sep­tem­ber 22, 2014, Novinite.com Res­i­dents of the south­ern Bul­gar­i­an city of Smolyan have staged a brief road block to oppose plans to build a bio­mass-fired ther­mal pow­er plant. Res­i­dents of the Usto­vo dis­trict of Smolyan blocked traf­fic along the Smolyan – Madan road for some 10 min­utes on Mon­day, accord­ing to reports of the Bul­gar­i­an Tele­graph Agency and Cap­i­tal Daily. The pro­test­ers demand…

  • Gainesville, FL Ratepayers Demand Biomass Refund

    Dozens of demon­stra­tors gath­ered in front of Gainesville City Hall on August 2 to demand that Gainesville Region­al Util­i­ties (GRU) repay $15 mil­lion to ratepayers—$194 per household—for high elec­tric rates asso­ci­at­ed with the con­struc­tion of the Gainesville Renew­able Ener­gy Cen­ter (GREC), a 100-megawatt bio­mass incin­er­a­tor sched­uled to go online in 2013. Pro­test­ers accused the util­i­ty of over­charg­ing ratepay­ers…