Tag: air pollution

  • Are Climate Claims for Burning Renewable Trees a Smokescreen?

    – by Robert McClure, April 21, 2014. Source: The Tyee/Investigate West Nestled into a seaside forest on the University of British Columbia’s lands, amid a carpet of sword ferns and salal, sits a gleaming industrial facility that’s been hailed as a significant step toward a carbon-neutral future for B.C., Canada and even the world. The wood-gas…

  • Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited

    – April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake formerly owned by Minnesota Energy is in the process of correcting water and air quality permit violations, and must pay a $10,000 civil penalty, according to an agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). In October 2012, Renville County officials…

  • DTE Energy: Black Soot Irks Residents of Cassville, Wisconsin

    – by Jeff Montgomery, March 22, 2014. Source: THOnline.com bloximagesnewyork CASSVILLE, Wis. – Linda Hulst said she began noticing the soot shortly after a nearby biomass plant started operations. For three years, the black, charcoal-like matter has sprinkled her property. “Every fresh snow is covered with it,” she said. “It gets on our deck, on our furniture, on the…

  • Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints

    – April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake formerly owned by Minnesota Energy is in the process of correcting water and air quality permit violations, and must pay a $10,000 civil penalty, according to an agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). In October 2012, Renville County officials…

  • Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame

    [The biomass industry is teaming up with environmentalists to increase the amount of forests burned for polluting energy in the Great North Woods.] Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame – by Joseph Seymour, March 11, 2014. Source: Biomass Magazine Migrating 1 million homes to biomass heat is optimistic—let alone 6 million—but recent developments in the northeastern U.S.…

  • New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts

    – by Shira Schoenberg, December 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in January will make it cheaper to use renewable energy to heat a home – and could provide a boost to the wood industry in rural parts of Western Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renewable) technologies compete with and…

  • Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up

    – by Michael Mccord, November 26, 2014, New Hampshire Business Review New Hampshire’s recently released 10-year energy strategy acknowledged an ongoing fact of life for the state’s commercial and residential sectors: New Hampshire imports 100 percent of its fossil fuels and natural gas. According to the NH Wood Energy Council, New Hampshire pays more than $1…

  • Campaigners Challenge Environment Agency

    Campaigners Challenge Environment Agency – by The Breathe Clean Air Group  Trafford, UK-based Breathe Clean Air Group has challenged the Environment Agency over a serious irregularity in issuing the controversial Barton Renewable Energy Plant in Greater Manchester, with an Environmental Permit. Group Chairman Pete Kilvert has written to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles claiming that the Environment…