Category: Blog entry

  • Biomass Energy Takes Share of $7 Billion in U.S. Army Contracts

    Biomass energy takes share of $7 billion in U.S. Army contracts – by Anna Simet, September 24, 2013. Source: Biomass Magazine Out of 52 bids submitted to acquire a share of $7 billion in energy contracts offered by the U.S. Army, 13 biomass companies have been selected. Contract awardees include Acciona Energy North America Corp., Chicago, Ill.;…

  • Fire Erupts at Missouri Wood Pellet Facility

    Fire erupts at the MFA Biomass plant in Aurora – by Paula Morehouse, October 13, 2013. Source: KY3 Biomass plant in Aurora The state fire marshal is investigating a fire on Sunday at the MFA Biomass plant in Aurora, Missouri.      The owner told KY3 News no one was hurt in the fire. The facility was…

  • Speak Up On “National Bioenergy Truth Day” – Thursday, October 17

    Speak Up On “National Bioenergy Truth Day” – Thursday, October 17   Please take 5 minutes of your time on Thursday, October 17 to make phone calls to select members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (listed below with talking points) to voice your opposition to the latest piece of legislation that would…

  • Wood Pellet Facility Threatens Southern Forests

    New Maps Reveal Enviva’s Ahoskie Wood Pellet Facility Threatens Southern Wetland Forests, Surrounding Ecosystems and Wildlife – August 27, 2013. Source: Dogwood Alliance AHOSKIE, N.C. (August 27, 2013) – New maps and a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dogwood Alliance reveal the ecological threat a major wood pellet manufacturing mill in…

  • Wood Pellet Facility Creates Dust Issue

    Wood Pellet Facility Creates Dust Issue – by Linda Russell, September 3, 2013. Source: KY3 SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– Growing production at a pellet plant in Aurora means more jobs.  But people who live nearby say it also means a lot more sawdust, so much that it’s hurting air quality there. MFA Oil Biomass opened the production facility on…

  • Wood Pellet Facility Creates Dust Issue

    Wood Pellet Facility Creates Dust Issue – by Linda Russell, September 3, 2013. Source: KY3 SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– Growing production at a pellet plant in Aurora means more jobs.  But people who live nearby say it also means a lot more sawdust, so much that it’s hurting air quality there. MFA Oil Biomass opened the production facility on…

  • European Biofuels Vote Delivers ‘Desperately Weak Compromise’

    European Biofuels Vote Delivers ‘Desperately Weak Compromise’ – by Karl Mathiesen, September 11, 2013. Source: The Guardian The European parliament has delivered a “desperately weak compromise” on the future of biofuels in Europe that industry says will “curtail jobs and investment”. In a tight vote on the use of biofuels in transport fuel, the parliament approved a 6% cap on the…

  • Biomass Energy Never Carbon Neutral

    Biomass Energy Never Carbon Neutral -by Karen Orr, Energy Justice Network Biomass energy is not carbon neutral and never will be. For years scientific studies have shown that biomass energy isn’t carbon neutral in any useful time frame. A 2012 study from Norway demonstrates that logging forests for bio-energy leads to a permanent increase in atmospheric carbon…

  • Victims of the Biomass Plant

    Victims of the Biomass Plant  – by Judy Hooker The city of Gainesville government isn’t the intelligent, forward thinking group I would have imagined. Is it somehow cool to victimize an otherwise beautiful community for financial gain? People and wildlife alike will pay a huge price for your callous actions. I am speaking of the…

  • Biofuels Company Granted $4M from DOE after Hosting Obama at Fundraiser

    Green company granted $4M from DOE after financier hosts Obama at DSCC fundraiser – by Lachlan Markay, September 20, 2013. Source: The Washington Free Beacon [Read “Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand” to learn more about the biofuels company LanzaTech.] The Department of Energy recently awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a green energy company financed by a major Democratic Party fundraiser…