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Stalled Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Gets Building Permit
– by Michaelann Bewsee, August 21, 2014, Arise for Social Justice Funny how bad news can make you want to fight even harder for justice. Remember the community’s fight to keep a biomass plant out of Springfield? Yesterday we found out that the Land Court granted Palmer Renewable Energy’s request to reinstate their building permit, undoing…
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Tennessee Biomass Incinerator Shut Down For Costs, Safety
– by Frank Munger, August 24, 2014, Knoxville News Sentinel Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biomass Steam Plant, heralded as a money saver and friend to the environment, failed to live up to its hype operationally, and the U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly trying to renegotiate its deal with the company that performed this and other projects at…
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Creditors Given OK to Foreclose on WA Biofuel Facility
– by Kristi Pihl, August 23, 2014, Tri City Herald Some of Green Power’s Tri-City creditors have received the green light to foreclose on the troubled biofuel company’s unfinished Pasco plant. Franklin County Superior Court Judge Cameron Mitchell recently approved a request by the creditors to foreclose on the liens they hold against the company’s personal…
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California Lawsuit Seeks Pollution Cuts From Massive Tree-burning Power Plant
– by Kevin Bundy, August 22, 2014, Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging a Clean Air Act permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for a massive, 31-megawatt biomass power plant proposed by Sierra Pacific Industries in Anderson, Calif. The challenge, filed directly in the 9th Circuit U.S.…
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Berlin, NH Biomass Incinerator Operational, But At What Cost To Ratepayers?
– by Chris Jensen, August 21, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio A new biomass plant in Berlin is finally producing electricity for Public Service of New Hampshire under a controversial 20-year contract that a report says will cost PSNH ratepayers $125 million more than if the electricity was purchased on the open market… That estimate came…
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Oregon Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Biomass Air Pollution
– by Lisa Arkin, August 6, 2014, Beyond Toxics On August 6, Beyond Toxics filed a civil rights and environmental justice complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the Lane County Regional Air Protection Agency’s decision to allow a power plant to increase its discharges of hazardous particulate matter. The complaint alleges that allowing…
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Energy Justice Summer: Standing With Communities in the Shalefields
– by Energy Justice Summer This summer youth have gathered in the shale gas region of Northeastern Pennsylvania to facilitate trainings, compile reports, and to fight for the safety of landowners, workers, and the environment. Energy Justice Summer is based in Susquehanna County in order to directly connect with the community members impacted by shale gas…
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Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Permit Reinstated
– by Suzanne McLaughlin, August 20, 2014, MassLive Massachusetts Land Court has granted Palmer Renewable Energy’s request to reinstate its building permit for a biomass wood-burning plant in East Springfield, undoing the Springfield Zoning Board of Appeals’ decision that the building permit was invalid. The decision states that no special permit is needed and the building…
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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,…
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