Category: Blog entry

  • (September 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Air Pollution and Children”

    Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Notes Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 3pm EST Topic: “A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Air Pollution and Children” – We discuss the human health impacts of biomass incineration and other forms of industrial air pollution, with a focus on our nation’s most vulnerable population: our children. Guest speaker: Dr. Norma Kreilein,…

  • Biomass Industry Fans Flames of Wildfire Hysteria

    Biomass Industry Fans Flames of Wildfire Hysteria  California’s Rim fire, expected to be fully “contained” by October after igniting in Yosemite National Park on August 17, will ultimately benefit the forests it has passed through. While media accounts sensationalize such large wildfires as “catastrophic” and “disastrous,” science demonstrates that, to the contrary, fire is a vital component of…

  • Wildland-Urban Fire—A Different Approach

    Wildland-Urban Fire–A Different Approach – by Jack D. Cohen, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service Wildland-urban fire occurs when a fire burning in wildland vegetation fuels gets close enough with its flames and/or firebrands (lofted burning embers) to potentially create ignitions of the residential fuels (Butler 1974). Residential fire destruction is the principal problem during wildland-urban fires,…

  • Wind Drives All Large Blazes

    Wind Drives All Large Blazes  – by George Wuerthner As large fires have spread across the West in recent decades, we hear increasing demands to reduce fuels—typically through logging. But logging won’t reduce the large fires we are experiencing because fuels do not drive large fires. You can have tons of fuel per acre as…

  • How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets

    How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets – by Glenn Hurowitz, June 28, 2013. Source: Grist As the global leader of climate action, European governments want to know how President Obama’s major climate speech affects Europe – and particularly whether the actions he outlined can allow the United States to reach its commitment to reduce…

  • Biomass Health Care Costs

    Biomass Health Care Costs  – by Dick Stokes, August 16, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”110″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”style”:”width: 200px; height: 200px; float: left; margin: 7px;”}}]]Physicians warned Gainesville officials for years about the increased health risks and health-care costs from biomass-burning emissions. There’s nothing green, clean or healthy about hauling over 22 counties’ worth of wood on diesel-belching trucks every day…

  • E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster

    E.U. Agroenergy Policy: A Foreseeable Disaster In a misguided attempt to allegedly tackle runaway climate change, the European Union (E.U.) is implementing policy that would increase carbon dioxide emissions, displace native peoples, threaten public health, and degrade forests and watersheds. A new report, A Foreseeable Disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab,…

  • Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

    Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula Government agencies and policymakers have long turned a deaf ear to concerns with human health threats from biomass incineration. A new experimental study underway on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula may ultimately compel elected officials to act to protect public health from biomass incineration, while serving as a model…

  • How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator

    How to Stop a Biomass Incinerator – by People for Clean Mountains On July 22, 2013 the Transylvania County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to enact a one year moratorium on the development and permitting of any biomass facility producing any output. This was the culmination of four months of effort by the citizens…

  • Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration

    Australia to Reverse Ban on Native Forest Incineration – by Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre   Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced plans to allow native forests to be logged and burnt for electricity generation. Removing a ban on burning native forest wood for electricity would give a green light for the…