Tag: renewable energy

  • Biomass Burning Kills 250,000 People a Year

    -  by Jo Nova, August 5, 2014, JoanneNova.com.au The head­line at Sci­ence Dai­ly is that wild­fires and oth­er burns lead to cli­mate change. The paper itself asks: “As such, par­ti­cle burn-off of clouds may be a major under­rec­og­nized source of glob­al warm­ing.” For me what mat­ters are the deaths in the here and now: “We cal­cu­late that 5 to…

  • 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…

  • USDA Splurges Millions on Biomass Power Incinerators

    [More tax­pay­er mon­ey fund­ing pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions to log Nation­al Forests under the unsci­en­tif­ic guise of “wild­fire pre­ven­tion.” ‑Ed.] -  US Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture, July 23, 2014, Office of Communications Agri­cul­ture Sec­re­tary Tom Vil­sack today announced that the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (USDA) has select­ed 36 ener­gy facil­i­ties in 14 states to accept bio­mass deliv­er­ies sup­port­ed by…

  • 2014: The Year of the Smokestack Smackdown [Energy Justice Now, August 2014]

    Pre­pare your­self for the August issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work’s new pub­li­ca­tion, Ener­gy Jus­tice Now! - “2014 a Ban­ner Year for Victories” - “Derail­ing NYC Trash Train in Chester, PA” - “Ver­mont Yan­kee: Out of the Fis­sion and Into the Fire?” …and more!!! Please share the August 2014 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with your friends, col­leagues, neigh­bors, media, and elect­ed officials! Sub­scribe to month­ly email…

  • Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?

    - by Ann Dar­ling, The Safe and Green Campaign The Ver­mont Yan­kee nuclear pow­er sta­tion in south­east­ern Ver­mont will close in Decem­ber of this year after oper­at­ing for over 40 years. The own­er, Enter­gy Nuclear, is based in New Orleans and is the sec­ond largest nuclear pow­er com­pa­ny in the U.S. As a mem­ber of the Safe…

  • Biomass Rejected in Favor of Solar in Springfield, VT

    -  by Susan Small­heer, July 17, 2014, Rut­land Herald North Spring­field, Vt. — Out with bio­mass, in with solar panels. Win­stan­ley Enter­pris­es announced Wednes­day that it was seek­ing state approval to build five, 500-kilo­watt solar arrays in the North Spring­field Indus­tri­al Park. Some of the land that will be used was ear­li­er pro­posed to be the…

  • 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…

  • Wood Stoves a Major Contributor to “Unhealthy” Air Days in Clallam County, WA

    Read The Bio­mass Mon­i­tor’s cov­er­age of the sto­ry behind these air pol­lu­tion tests: “Track­ing Bio­mass Air Pol­lu­tion on the Olympic Penin­su­la”  -  by Arwyn Rice, July 14, 2014, Penin­su­la Dai­ly News   PORT ANGELES — Air qual­i­ty in cen­tral and east­ern Clal­lam Coun­ty is gen­er­al­ly good, but wood burn­ing for home heat­ing and trans­porta­tion-relat­ed pol­lu­tants are con­tribut­ing to occa­sion­al “unhealthy”…

  • Council Concerned Over Reports of Land Contamination from Oklahoma Incinerator

    -  by Josh New­town, April 23, 2014, Tahle­quah Dai­ly Press TAHLEQUAH — Nego­ti­a­tions involv­ing the pur­chase of near­ly 20 homes on 7 acres of land near Basin Avenue hit a snag Mon­day night when con­cerns sur­faced over poten­tial con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the area. Tahle­quah May­or Jason Nichols had pro­posed the city pur­chase the homes and duplex­es as a large…