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Springfield, MA City Council Votes to Appeal Biomass Permit Ruling
– by Ryan Trowbridge, September 10, 2014, WGGB Wednesday night, the Springfield City Council took up the contentious issue of a planned biomass incinerator in the city. Opponents claim the plant would only add more pollution to an already polluted city, but the state just ruled Springfield does not have the authority to stop its development.…
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Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too
– by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Washington Post The Post’s Aug. 28 editorial “An answer to global warming” made good points about a carbon tax. However, a serious problem that was not mentioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from biomass energy sources, such as burning wood in power plants. Most proposed carbon control…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Public Opposition Spurs County to Delay New Biomass Facility
[Interesting piece by industry PR person in regards to dealing with public opposition to dirty energy projects. -Ed.] – by Al Maiorino, September 2, 2014, Renewable Energy Magazine Transylvania County in North Carolina is currently engaged in intensive internal debate about the role of biomass in their future. The current state of affairs began last year…
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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…
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Amid Oil and Gas Boom, Colorado Continues Role as Earthquake Lab
– by Kevin Simpson, August 31, 2014, The Denver Post From the living room chair where he sat reading around half past 9 on a May evening, Ron Baker heard the boom and felt his century-old Greeley farmhouse shudder, sending a menagerie of plastic horses toppling from a bedroom shelf. He stepped out the back…
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Marcellus Shale Drillers Under-Reported Waste
– by Anya Litvak and Maxwell Radwin, August 31, 2014, The Post-Gazette EQT Corp. told the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that it sent 21 tons of drill cuttings from its Marcellus Shale wells to area landfills in 2013. But landfills in southwestern Pennsylvania told a different story. Six facilities in this part of the state reported receiving nearly 95,000…
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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…
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