Category: Blog entry

  • Couple Suing Iowa Ethanol Plant

    – May 21, 2014, WhoTV.com   localtvwhotv.wordpress.com A Nevada couple is suing a cellulosic ethanol plant after a fire threatened their home. Ernest and Barbara Clark are suing DuPont Danisco. They are claiming the company has acted recklessly and carelessly in storing the highly combustible corn stover across from their home. On March 31st, at least eight…

  • Concerns Voiced over Nova Scotia Biomass Logging

    – by Lois Ann Dort, Guysborough Journal Last week Nova Scotia Power held one of many regional committee meetings at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre. Members of the Municipality of the District of Guysbrough council were on hand and voiced concerns about the harvesting of biomass in the district to supply the biomass plant at Point…

  • Connecticut Buys Fake “Clean” Energy from New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator

    [Other than ignoring all health and environmental impacts of biomass incineration, this article falsely claims that the Burgess BioPower incinerator in New Hampshire can operate at 90% efficiency, while in reality biomass power incinerators operate at 20-25% efficiency. -Ed.] – by Geoffrey Craig and Derek Sands, Platts Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority approved on Tuesday a New…

  • A Victim of Woodsmoke Pollution

    – by Shirley Brandie, WoodBurnerSmoke.net In 2000, we bought a home to enjoy our retirement in. It was perfect for us! Everything on one floor, a surrounding deck, and a large expanse of lawn. Little did we know that, in 2002, our lives would be changed dramatically! Beginning in 2002, our home became surrounded and infiltrated…

  • Burn It Up?

    – by Vic Steblin, Source: WoodBurnerSmoke.net Humans have been burning for much of history. Africa burns its savanna annually and the smoke can be seen from space. Australia and Mediterranean areas regularly burn off hazardous undergrowth. Logging companies burn off residue according to professional forestry codes. Ranchers and farmers burn old grass and crops to release nutrients. Even lightning…

  • Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?

    – by Nicolas Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Senate considering extending a package of tax credits that expired at the end of 2013, six Senators have banded together to call on Congress to re-up the expired biofuel credits. In particular, tax credits of $1 per gallon produced was offered for blended diesel made…

  • Biofuels Plant Won’t Protect Us from Wildfire

    – by Virginia Moran, May 16, 2014, Source: The Union Regarding the proposed “biofuels” plant (i.e. acceleration of climate change) project, here is what I find “scary”: that residents of western Nevada County are never allowed to live our lives in peace. If we are twitchy and irritable it is because we are constantly on guard…

  • Biomass Burner Short on Fuel

    – by Aaron Beswick, May 15, 2014, Source: Truro Bureau Nova Scotia is having trouble keeping up with the requirement for fibre at the biomass boiler at Point Tupper, says the natural resources minister. “There’s not enough fibre right now in the province to support demands placed on that sector,” Zach Churchill said Thursday, referring to…

  • Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale

    – by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that industrial biomass combustion can seriously jeopardize public health and the environment in communities, residential and smaller-scale commercial biomass burning also have adverse impacts on health and air quality in neighborhoods. In many cities and towns, increased wood burning, both indoor and outdoor, has become…

  • EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”

    [Contact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include biomass energy in their plans. -Ed.]  – Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Biomass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seeking public comments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative. The program promotes renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands,…