Category: Blog entry

  • Biomass Carpetbaggers

    Biomass Carpetbaggers – by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder   If Editor Blagg’s pro-biomass column was a meal I’d say it was a thin gruel of tainted leftovers along with a fruit salad loaded with sour grapes.  Leaving the dinner table, we stumble onto “carpetbaggers” who Mr. Blagg identifies with the anti-biomass folks. If you…

  • New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout

    New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hudson News Network The Taylor Biomass waste-to-energy project has had the support of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, since his candidacy for Congress last year. The Orange County facility is awaiting a $100 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy…

  • Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City

    Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City – by Christopher Curry, August 15, 2013. Source: The Gainesville Sun  The biomass plant company has sent Gainesville its terms for dropping a $50 million arbitration counterclaim and some city officials say the terms are unacceptable. The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center seeks no money to settle. Instead,…

  • Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner

    Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner  – by Warren Johnston, August 11, 2013. Source: Valley News [For more information on this facility please read “Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand“] Mascoma Corp., the Lebanon-based developer of cutting-edge biofuels technology, has lost its major partner in a proposed $233 million ethanol plant in Michigan.  Although Mascoma did not…

  • ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” (August 2013)

    Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign – National Conference Call Notes Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 3pm EST Topic: “Court Rejects EPA Rule that Deferred Carbon Standards for Biomass Industry” – What does the recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision (Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA) mean for the future of industrial-scale biomass incineration in the U.S.? Guest Speaker:…

  • Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests

    Timber Industry Distorts Information to Exploit Our Forests – by Samantha Chirillo, July 11, 2013. Source: Register-Guard Swanson supposedly states just the facts regarding Oregon’s forests and industry, but instead distorts them. Swanson is connected to the Swanson Group, a family that owns mills dependent on public timber. Her bias may be expected, but her…

  • Biofuel Program could Invite Giant Grass Invasion

    Biofuel Program could Invite Giant Grass Invasion – by John Upton, July 2013. Source: Grist  Here’s another environmental incentive to ditch the car: That gas you buy at the pump could soon be helping towering invasive grasses wreak havoc on America’s ecosystems. The EPA recently approved the use of giant reed and napier grass as biofuel ingredients…

  • How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists

    How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists – by Steve Horn, July 29, 2013. Source: MintPress News Rafael Pagan — who died in 1993 — was not invited to be a part of his former associate’s new firm, Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin. His tactic of conquering and dividing activist movements and isolating the “fanatic activist…

  • Biomass Industry Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into European Resource Colony

    Biomass Industry Reveals Plans to Turn U.S. into European Resource Colony Think the days of Europe exploiting the U.S. as a resource colony are behind us? Welcome back to the 18th century.  A July Biomass Magazine and Pellet Mill Magazine webinar series, “Satisfying Europe’s Growing Appetite for American Wood Pellets,” lays out the biomass industry’s disturbing plans to convert North American…

  • Oregon Biomass Battleground

    Oregon: Biomass Battleground – by Samantha Chirillo, Energy Justice Network Timber Town Eugene, Oregon buzzes along nearly oblivious to the forest destruction and herbicide poisoning around it. Much like a frog in a pot of water brought to a slow boil, the timber industry relies on what anthropologist and author Jared Diamond referred to as…