Category: Blog entry

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…