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End of the Road for Greenfield, MA Biomass Incinerator
END OF THE ROAD FOR GREENFIELD BIOMASS PROJECT Contact: Janet Sinclair 413-625-2886 / 413-478-4333 Concerned Citizens of Franklin County Greenfield, MA July 18, 2013 The plaintiffs appealing the Greenfield, MA Zoning Board decision to grant a Special Permit for a 47 Megawatt biomass power plant filed a request in the Franklin Superior Court to annul…
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Seneca Biomass Incinerator Requests Increase in Pollution Cap
Seneca Biomass Incinerator Requests Increase in Pollution Cap – by Diane Dietz, July 17, 2013. Source: The Register-Guard The owners of a 2½-year-old electricity plant fueled with logging scraps have struggled to meet clean air standards since the facility began operations on the outskirts of Eugene and are asking regulators for a little more leeway to pollute. …
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Biomass Opponents Take on Congress
Biomass Opponents Take on Congress Eighty-five organizations from twenty-six states (and counting) have signed on to a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, insisting that the Senator protect Americans from harmful air pollution by ending his support for biomass incineration. The letter, written by…
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Garbage In, Garbage Out – by Mercedes Brugh One of the unanswered questions about the pyrolyzation garbage-to-electricity proposal for Logansport, Indiana has been about emissions. No proof has been offered about emissions. We have been told that the Pyrolyzer plant will have to follow the “strictest emissions rules,” but that is no comfort. Indiana consistently ranks among…
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Amidst Opposition, a Conference and Industry in Crisis
Amidst Opposition, a Conference and Industry in Crisis – by Will Bennington, Global Justice Ecology Project (Photo: Orin Langelle/photolangelle.org) Hundreds of activists descended upon Asheville, North Carolina in May for a week of major protests at the international bi-annual Tree Biotechnology conference. The conference, hosted by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), is a major…
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Energy Justice Network Pushes for Clean Air in Allentown, PA
Energy Justice Network Pushes for Clean Air in Allentown, PA June 18, 2013. Source: Colin McEvoy, The Express Times A clean air bill proposed by opponents of the planned Allentown waste-to-energy plant may be at odds with state law. The city released a copy of a letter today from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection arguing…
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Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering
Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering J June 11, 2013. Source: Almuth Ernsting, Hands Off Mother Earth. Amongst geoengineering methods, ‘afforestation’, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and biochar are commonly promoted as ‘safe’, benign’ or ‘soft’ options – unlike, say, shooting sulphur particles into the stratosphere. According to a 2011…
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Trafford, UK Council Plans Biomass Incinerator Appeal
Trafford, UK Council Plans Biomass Incinerator Appeal May 31, 2013. Source: BBC News A government inquiry was held into Peel Energy’s plans for a £70m plant in Davyhulme after Trafford Council and hundreds of residents objected. An inspector said health fears were outweighed by the plant’s benefits. Councillors said they believed they had reasonable grounds for…
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Huge Biomass Incinerator Gets Go-ahead in Scotland
Huge Biomass Incinerator Gets Go-ahead in Scotland June 3, 2013. Source: The Herald Scotland Scotland’s largest combined heat and power biomass plant has been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government. Planning consent was granted for the £465 million development which, when finished, should have the capacity to continuously heat the equivalent of 1,000 Olympic-sized swimming…
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EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion
EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion May 14, 2013. Source: Frances Robinson, Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS–The European Union’s antitrust authorities raided the offices of oil and biofuel companies in two EU member states and Norway on suspicion of distorting prices, the EU Commission said Tuesday. “On 14 May 2013, Commission officials carried…
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