Tag: biofuels
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Public Weighs in on Plumas County, CA Biomass Proposal
– by Debra Moore, April 5, 2015, Plumas County News The Sierra Institute is poised to receive $2.6 million from the California Energy Commission, but first the public will have a chance to comment on the biomass boiler that would be built near the county’s health and human services building in Quincy. The commission announced March…
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Biofuels Gain Traction at Minnesota Legislature
– by Jon Collins, March 31, 2015, Minnesota Public Radio A bill to create a $5 million tax credit to advance the development of the biofuel industry in Minnesota is gaining traction at the state Legislature. Newer technologies allow the use of plants like native prairie grasses or alfalfa for conversion ethanol. The so-called advanced biofuel…
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Plainfield, Connecticut Biomass Facility Changes Hands Again
– by Brian Dowling, March 25, 2015, Hartford Courant Leidos Inc. is selling its Plainfield wood-fired power plant to Greenleaf Power, a Sacramento company that is buying biomass plants across North America. Greenleaf Power announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy the 37.5-megawatt power plant in a deal it expects to close later this year. The…
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$629 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for Bioenergy
– by Erin Voegele, March 19, 2015, Ethanol Producer Magazine On March 12, the U.S. Energy Information Administration published a report on direct federal financial interventions and subsidies in energy for fiscal year (FY) 2103. The report, which responds to a request from Reps. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce…
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Garden Variety Environmentalism: The Band-Aid Wing of the Green Growth Economy
– by Michael Donnelly, March 13, 2015, Counterpunch It was 60+ degrees and sunny – had been for weeks – in western Oregon, as I arrived in Eugene for the annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School – the planet’s oldest such conference. The conference, attended by over 3000 attorneys,…
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Planned La Pine, Oregon Biomass Incinerator Hinges on Market
– by Dylan J. Darling, March 17, 2015, Bend Bulletin A wood-burning power plant remains a possibility for La Pine, with the city now taking the lead on the project from Deschutes County and the company behind it waiting for a change in the energy market. “It’s just been on hold due to market conditions,” said…
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Gypsum, CO Biomass Incinerator Still Off-Line After December Fire
– by Scott Miller, March 22, 2015, Post Independent A plant that generates electricity by burning beetle-killed wood had only been operating for a few months when a December fire badly damaged the facility’s conveyor system. The plant has been closed since, and will probably remain closed until summer. The plant, built by Provo, Utah-based Eagle…
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Montana Logging Collaborative Fails Restoration Goals
– by George Wuerthner, March 15, 2015, The Wildlife News The Forest Service (FS), the timber industry and some environmental groups formed a collaborative groups several years ago known as the Southwest Crown of the Continent (SWCC). The goal ostensibly is to promote healthy ecosystems, but the real goal is to increase logging in the Seeley-Swan…
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State of Illinois Settles Ethanol Spill Fish Kill Case
– by Pam Eggemeier, March 5, 2015, Sauk Valley A settlement has been reached with a railroad company responsible for an ethanol spill that caused a significant fish kill in the Rock River nearly 6 years ago, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office announced Thursday. In June 2009, a Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad train derailed in…