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  • Wisconsin Governor Wants to Cut $8 Million from Bioenergy Research

    - by Thomas Con­tent and Lee Bergquist, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2015, Jour­nal Sentinel In an about-face from his first term, Gov. Scott Walk­er wants to elim­i­nate fund­ing for a Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son renew­able ener­gy research cen­ter that has played a key role in help­ing land one of its biggest gov­ern­ment grants ever. In his bud­get, Walk­er is…

  • Fire at Brand New Biomass Incinerator in Rothschild, Wisconsin

    -April 11, 2014. Source: Wasau Dai­ly Herald ROTHSCHILD — Fire­fight­ers extin­guished a blaze that ignit­ed in a dust col­lec­tor at the Dom­tar bio­mass pow­er plant ear­ly Fri­day morning. Roth­schild Fire Depart­ment crews respond­ed to the plant just before 4:30 a.m., said Chief Marc Hill. When crews got to the plant, a fire was burn­ing inside the dust col­lec­tor and…

  • DTE Energy: Black Soot Irks Residents of Cassville, Wisconsin

    - by Jeff Mont­gomery, March 22, 2014. Source: THOnline.com blox­im­ages­newyork CASSVILLE, Wis. — Lin­da Hulst said she began notic­ing the soot short­ly after a near­by bio­mass plant start­ed operations. For three years, the black, char­coal-like mat­ter has sprin­kled her prop­er­ty. “Every fresh snow is cov­ered with it,” she said. “It gets on our deck, on our fur­ni­ture, on the…