Category: Blog entry

  • Energy Justice Network Pushes for Clean Air in Allentown, PA

    Energy Justice Network Pushes for Clean Air in Allentown, PA June 18, 2013. Source: Colin McEvoy, The Express Times  A clean air bill proposed by opponents of the planned Allentown waste-to-energy plant may be at odds with state law. The city released a copy of a letter today from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection arguing…

  • Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering

    Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering J June 11, 2013. Source: Almuth Ernsting, Hands Off Mother Earth.  Amongst geoengineering methods, ‘afforestation’, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and biochar are commonly promoted as ‘safe’, benign’ or ‘soft’ options – unlike, say, shooting sulphur particles into the stratosphere. According to a 2011…

  • Trafford, UK Council Plans Biomass Incinerator Appeal

    Trafford, UK Council Plans Biomass Incinerator Appeal May 31, 2013. Source: BBC News A government inquiry was held into Peel Energy’s plans for a £70m plant in Davyhulme after Trafford Council and hundreds of residents objected. An inspector said health fears were outweighed by the plant’s benefits. Councillors said they believed they had reasonable grounds for…

  • Huge Biomass Incinerator Gets Go-ahead in Scotland

    Huge Biomass Incinerator Gets Go-ahead in Scotland June 3, 2013. Source: The Herald Scotland Scotland’s largest combined heat and power biomass plant has been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government. Planning consent was granted for the £465 million development which, when finished, should have the capacity to continuously heat the equivalent of 1,000 Olympic-sized swimming…

  • EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion

    EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion May 14, 2013. Source: Frances Robinson, Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS–The European Union’s antitrust authorities raided the offices of oil and biofuel companies in two EU member states and Norway on suspicion of distorting prices, the EU Commission said Tuesday. “On 14 May 2013, Commission officials carried…

  • A Biomassacre Down Under

    A Biomassacre Down Under  A new report out of Australia, Biomassacre: How Logging Australia’s Native Forests for Bioenergy Harms the Climate, Wildlife and People, by Markets for Change, highlights the harm to forests, climate, wildlife and human health from logging native forests for industrial-scale bioenergy. Instead of being a clean, green solution to wean Australia off of…

  • 129 Gigawatts of Biomass by 2020?

    Electricity Generation from Biomass: Installed Capacity Forecasts for Dedicated, Co-Fired, Anaerobic Digestion, and Biorefinery Facilities May 27, 2013. Source: PR Newswire  Accounting for 3% of global electricity generation capacity, biomass power generation (“biopower”) offers reliable baseload power to the grid and is expected to play a cornerstone role in meeting renewable energy targets worldwide. Capacity expansion…

  • Biomass Incinerator Proposal for Klamath Falls, Oregon Withdrawn

    Project withdrawn after federal funding source issues June 14, 2013. Source: Andrew Creasey, Herald and News A proposed and controversial biomass plant off Highway 66 will not be built due to complications with its federal funding source. Klamath Falls Bioenergy withdrew its application for a site certification Tuesday. The certification process had been mired in delays…

  • Biomass Incinerator is Vermont’s Biggest Polluter

    Facing climate change: Vermont’s biggest polluters May 29, 2013. Source: Audrey Clark, VT Digger Vermont’s reputation as a green state was upheld this year when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an interactive map of the biggest point sources of greenhouse gases in the country. In spite of, or thanks to, these facilities, Vermont has…

  • Proposed Klamath Falls, Oregon Biomass Incinerator Will Not Be Built

    Proposed Klamath Falls, Oregon Biomass Incinerator Will Not Be Built June 13, 2013. Source: Herald and News A proposed biomass plant off Highway 66 will not be built, due to complications with its federal funding source. Klamath Falls Bioenergy withdrew its application for a site certification on Tuesday. The certification process had been mired in delays…