Tag: bioenergy

  • Why Solidarity is Needed More than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network Most progress in stopping polluting energy and waste industries is accomplished by grassroots activism, stopping one project at a time. Many assume that grassroots groups are “NIMBY” types just pushing polluters from one community to another. However, 50% to 95% of each wave of industrial development in recent decades has…

  • Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State

    – by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent…

  • Dirty Wood-Heaters

    – by Dr. Dorothy Robinson, Woodsmoke.3sc.net  The most health-hazardous air pollutant is PM2.5 (tiny particles less than 2.5 millionth of a metre in diameter) that cause 10 to 20 times as many premature deaths as the next worst pollutant (ozone).   PM2.5 penetrate the deepest recesses of our lungs.  As well as causing lung disease, PM2.5…

  • Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US

    – May 27, 2014, Bioenergy Insight Five new biomass plants with a total generation capacity of 10MW came online in the US last month, according to the Energy Infrastructure Update for April, published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 biomass-fired facilities producing a total 20MW of renewable energy have…

  • Couple Suing Iowa Ethanol Plant

    – May 21, 2014, WhoTV.com   localtvwhotv.wordpress.com A Nevada couple is suing a cellulosic ethanol plant after a fire threatened their home. Ernest and Barbara Clark are suing DuPont Danisco. They are claiming the company has acted recklessly and carelessly in storing the highly combustible corn stover across from their home. On March 31st, at least eight…

  • Subsidies and Mandates for Biofuel Don’t Provide Enough Stability?

    – by Nicolas Loris, May 16, 2014, Source: The Foundry With the Senate considering extending a package of tax credits that expired at the end of 2013, six Senators have banded together to call on Congress to re-up the expired biofuel credits. In particular, tax credits of $1 per gallon produced was offered for blended diesel made…

  • USDA Announces Release of Report Charting Path to Commercialization of Cellulosic Nanomaterials

    – by Lynn L. Bergeson, November 26, 2014, JD Supra Business Advisor On November 24, 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has released a report that details the pathway to commercializing affordable, renewable, and biodegradable cellulose nanomaterials from trees.   The report, entitled Cellulose Nanomaterials — A Path Towards…

  • Soil Erosion May Get Us Before Climate Change Does

    – by Richard Reese, December 1, 2014, Resilience Outside the entrance of the glorious Hall of Western History are the marble lions, colorful banners, and huge stone columns. Step inside, and the popular exhibits include ancient Egypt, classical Greece, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, Gutenberg, Magellan, Columbus, Galileo, and so on. If we cut a hole…

  • Bioenergy Pipelines?

    – August 14, 2014, Waste Management World [The latest bad idea coming out of the polluting bioenergy industry.] A scientist at the University of Alberta, Canada is research to determine whether it’s effective to use pipelines to transport agricultural waste used in biofuels. According to the university, Mahdi Vaezi, a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering,…

  • Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington

    – by Kate Prengaman, October 29, 2014 Yakima Herald-Republic Scientists are searching for the fuels of the future in high-tech laboratories around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new technology at a wood-chipping plant tucked in the forest outside Cle Elum. That’s because their technology runs on wood chips. Roasting the wood,…