Tag: washington

  • Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria

    -  by Melis­sa San­tos, Jan­u­ary 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stan­ton cred­its a state pro­gram with sav­ing her home from the worst wild­fire in Washington’s history. Despite her prop­er­ty being in the path of the Carl­ton Com­plex fire, which scorched about 256,000 acres in Okanogan and Chelan coun­ties last sum­mer, Stanton’s home and the trees…

  • Proposed Washington Biomass Incinerator Nets $200k State Grant

    [Anoth­er bio­mass incin­er­a­tor that would require the log­ging of pub­lic lands. ‑Ed.]  - by Eric Florip, August 27, 2014, The Columbian A $200,000 state grant will sup­port a new bio­mass-fueled pow­er plant near Steven­son expect­ed to be oper­a­tional next year, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednes­day. The mon­ey will go to Wind Riv­er Bio­mass Util­i­ty, which has…

  • 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…