Tag: bioenergy

  • New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels

    – by Justin Gillis, January 28, 2015, New York Times Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank. Turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that the…

  • Biomass Destruction Entirely Predictable

    – by Matt Miller and Raymond Plouride, February 4, 2015, Chronicle Herald In a Jan. 9 story about damage to our forests as a result of the need to feed the giant new Nova Scotia Power biomass generator in Port Hawkesbury (“Biomass project raising green concerns”), Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Allan Eddy suggested that…

  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the January issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Dirt Cheap Clean Energy –  Energy Storage and Solar Inspiring Customers to Drop Utilities? –  Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint …and more! Please share the January 2015 issue of Energy…

  • Nova Scotia Power Biomass in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns

    – by Aaron Beswick, January 9, 2015, The Chronicle Herald About 2,790 hectares. That’s a rough estimate of how much woodland will need to be cut annually to feed Nova Scotia Power’s biomass boiler at Point Tupper. “It seems that more of the fears are coming true than the benefits we had envisioned from that facility,”…

  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    – Sam Ali, January 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renewable Energy Coalition is one step closer to helping bring a solution to the energy crisis in the Copper Country. Last night, KREC gathered experts in the logging and timber industries for a biomass working session to discuss the future of a possible 11-megawatt biomass electric…

  • Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria

    –  by Melissa Santos, January 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stanton credits a state program with saving her home from the worst wildfire in Washington’s history. Despite her property being in the path of the Carlton Complex fire, which scorched about 256,000 acres in Okanogan and Chelan counties last summer, Stanton’s home and the trees…

  • Study: The Dark Side of Forest Carbon Sequestration

    Science has taught us that humans and trees have a symbiotic relationship: humans and other living creatures exhale carbon dioxide, which trees absorb to produce oxygen, which we then breathe. It’s a perfect circle that maintains life on Earth as we know it. But a recent study out of Rhode Island’s Miskatonic University has identified…

  • Citizens Urge EPA and Congress to Choose Public Interest Over Politics on Energy Policy

    – Mike Ewall and Samantha Chirillo In December, 900 Americans, including 100 organizations across the U.S. collectively voiced their concerns about major parts of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, in comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Citizens specifically asked the EPA to: ·      set more aggressive targets and address environmental justice ·      not encourage…

  • Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT

    – by Bill Cummings, December 28, 2014, CT Post The discovery of PCBs and other contaminants at Greenwich High School two years ago is only part of a mosaic of cancer-causing toxics that have cropped up at various sites around one of the nation’s wealthiest, most exclusive communities. Pollutants have now been confirmed at three other locations in Greenwich,…

  • Southwest Airlines to Use Forest Biofuels

    – by Terry Maxon, December 31, 2014, Dallas Morning News Southwest Airlines announced Wednesday that it plans to buy some biofuels made from waste wood, for use in its San Francisco Bay airports beginning in two years. To use Southwest’s phrasing, it is purchasing “low carbon renewable jet fuel, made using forest residues that will help reduce…