Tag: renewable energy

  • What the Frack? Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel is Not Good to the Last Drop

    - by Mark Robi­nowitz, PeakChoice.org The tox­ic impacts of hydraulic frac­tur­ing for oil and gas have been sub­ject to pub­lic debates, protests, and law­suits, among oth­er tac­tics to stop these dan­gers. But the oth­er half of the frack­ing sto­ry, which has had much less atten­tion, is the exag­ger­a­tion of recov­er­able reserves. The frack­ing indus­try claims shale…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    - by Dave Miller, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougher­ty Pay­roll Devel­op­ment Author­i­ty has giv­en the go-ahead for its part in the pro­posed new bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in con­junc­tion with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We report­ed Tues­day that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Proc­ter and Gam­ble that could help them cut waste, and allow­ing the…

  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    - by Duane Shim­gawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacif­ic Busi­ness News The only coal-fired pow­er plant in Hawaii, which is the sin­gle largest gen­er­at­ing plant on Oahu, is under finan­cial stress because there is no finan­cial reserve, accord­ing to the Hawai­ian Elec­tric Co.‘s new ener­gy plan released this week. Hawai­ian Elec­tric is also ask­ing AES Hawaiito con­vert some of the…

  • Tennessee Biomass Incinerator Shut Down For Costs, Safety

    - by Frank Munger, August 24, 2014, Knoxville News Sentinel Oak Ridge Nation­al Laboratory’s Bio­mass Steam Plant, her­ald­ed as a mon­ey saver and friend to the envi­ron­ment, failed to live up to its hype oper­a­tional­ly, and the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy is report­ed­ly try­ing to rene­go­ti­ate its deal with the com­pa­ny that per­formed this and oth­er projects at…

  • Creditors Given OK to Foreclose on WA Biofuel Facility

    - by Kristi Pihl, August 23, 2014, Tri City Herald Some of Green Pow­er’s Tri-City cred­i­tors have received the green light to fore­close on the trou­bled bio­fu­el com­pa­ny’s unfin­ished Pas­co plant. Franklin Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Cameron Mitchell recent­ly approved a request by the cred­i­tors to fore­close on the liens they hold against the com­pa­ny’s per­son­al property.…

  • Berlin, NH Biomass Incinerator Operational, But At What Cost To Ratepayers?

    - by Chris Jensen, August 21, 2014, New Hamp­shire Pub­lic Radio A new bio­mass plant in Berlin is final­ly pro­duc­ing elec­tric­i­ty for Pub­lic Ser­vice of New Hamp­shire under a con­tro­ver­sial 20-year con­tract that a report says will cost PSNH ratepay­ers $125 mil­lion more than if the elec­tric­i­ty was pur­chased on the open market… That esti­mate came from…

  • 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…

  • Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Permit Reinstated

    - by Suzanne McLaugh­lin, August 20, 2014, MassLive Mass­a­chu­setts Land Court has grant­ed Palmer Renew­able Energy’s request to rein­state its build­ing per­mit for a bio­mass wood-burn­ing plant in East Spring­field, undo­ing the Spring­field Zon­ing Board of Appeals’ deci­sion that the build­ing per­mit was invalid. The deci­sion states that no spe­cial per­mit is need­ed and the build­ing…

  • Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan

    UPDATE: despite strong orga­niz­ing efforts, an out­pour­ing of com­mu­ni­ty oppo­si­tion and strong research we’ve com­piled to show how awful this plan is, city coun­cil vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly on Aug 13th to approve Cov­an­ta’s plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incin­er­a­tion.  In fact, it’ll go…