Tag: renewable energy

  • Energy Justice Now: A Forum for Dirty Energy Opponents

    Since 1999, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work has worked with com­mu­ni­ties across the U.S. to oppose every kind of dirty ener­gy facil­i­ty — from coal and nat­ur­al-gas fired plants, to nuclear reac­tors, to bio­mass and trash incin­er­a­tors — to pro­tect human health and the nat­ur­al world that keeps us alive. While count­less pol­lu­tion push­ers have been run out…

  • NEW STUDY: Air Pollution Good for Lungs

    HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY! - by Fiske Ster­ling, April 1, 2014. Source: TBN News A new study out of Miska­ton­ic Uni­ver­si­ty in Rhode Island has con­clud­ed that air pol­lu­tion, specif­i­cal­ly par­tic­u­late mat­ter, can repair dam­aged lung tissue. The sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus up until this point had been that par­tic­u­late mat­ter — the byprod­uct of com­bus­tion from pow­er…

  • Are Dirty Energy Opponents NIMBY? Proving Industry Wrong

    It’s typ­i­cal for ener­gy devel­op­ers fac­ing com­mu­ni­ty resis­tance to pro­posed facil­i­ties to try to dis­cred­it oppo­nents by call­ing them NIMBY (Not in My Back­yard), steer­ing the argu­ment away from health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts to sim­ply one of aes­thet­ics. Cor­po­rate prof­i­teers argue that local oppo­si­tion doesn’t have a prob­lem with a giv­en ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy itself — so long…

  • EPA Proposal Classifies Wood Fuel from Construction, Demolition

    [Bio­mass indus­try push­ing for even less reg­u­la­tion of their dirt­i­est fuel source. ‑Ed.] - by Erin Voegele, March 27, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine Bio­mass industry On March 27, the U.S. EPA released a pro­posed rule to amend its Non-Haz­ardous Sec­ondary Mate­ri­als reg­u­la­tion under the Resource Con­ser­va­tion and Recov­ery Act. The NHSM rule was final­ized in Feb­ru­ary…

  • 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…

  • Some Biofuel Feedstock Estimates ‘Overstating’ Yields

    - March 4, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­men­tal Leader Esti­mates for poten­tial bio­fu­el feed­stock crop yields from some wide­ly cit­ed research stud­ies may over­state those yields by as much as 100 per­cent, accord­ing to research by the Inter­na­tion­al Coun­cil on Clean Transportation. One key fac­tor in devel­op­ing a sus­tain­able bio­fu­els pol­i­cy is to real­is­ti­cal­ly esti­mate the amount of bio­mass that can…

  • Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints

    - by Phil Cicio­ra, March 5, 2014. Source: Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois News Office Debates sur­round­ing the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of bioen­er­gy have emerged in recent years relat­ing to water qual­i­ty and quan­ti­ty, and those debates will only grow loud­er as big urban areas in the U.S. start run­ning out of water and envi­ron­men­tal groups and the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion…

  • New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts

    - by Shi­ra Schoen­berg, Decem­ber 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in Jan­u­ary will make it cheap­er to use renew­able ener­gy to heat a home – and could pro­vide a boost to the wood indus­try in rur­al parts of West­ern Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renew­able) tech­nolo­gies com­pete with and…

  • Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up

    - by Michael Mccord, Novem­ber 26, 2014, New Hamp­shire Busi­ness Review New Hampshire’s recent­ly released 10-year ener­gy strat­e­gy acknowl­edged an ongo­ing fact of life for the state’s com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial sec­tors: New Hamp­shire imports 100 per­cent of its fos­sil fuels and nat­ur­al gas. Accord­ing to the NH Wood Ener­gy Coun­cil, New Hamp­shire pays more than $1…