Tag: biofuels

  • 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…

  • 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,”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy

    – December 29, 2014, The Recorder Nearly 40,000 tons of forest residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne County has been removed for use to generate biomass energy, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Meanwhile, the USDA said it has made funds available to help California landowners conserve natural resources damaged or threatened as a…

  • Biofuel Hell

    – by Richard Adrian Reese, February 17, 2013, Wild Ancestors I keep having nightmares about one possible future: biofuel hell.  Clearly, they are visions sent by ancestral spirits, and they are meant to be shared.  Perhaps they will inspire writers, movie makers, and other creative people to produce healing, mind-altering work.  Perhaps they will inspire contemplation…

  • Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline

    – by Bill Hudson, December 17, 2014, CBS Minnesota For years, the state’s corn and ethanol industries have touted the environmental benefits of burning the alternative fuel in our vehicles. But newly released research from the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering is raising eyebrows. The study compared pollution levels from gasoline fuel and…

  • Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise

    – December 11, 2014, Associated Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-central Minnesota city of Winnebago has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty and take steps to reduce its air pollution and noise levels. The corrective actions announced by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Wednesday mark the latest step by officials to bring…

  • Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud

    – by Susan Salisbury, December 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post     A Tampa man was sentenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 million after promising returns on bio-energy crops such as camelina that were not even planted William A. Vasden Jr. who once headed the Florida Feedstock Growers Association, was sentenced…

  • Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina

    – December 8, 2014, Biofuels International Firefighters in Greensboro, North Carolina, responded to a leaking tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approximately 2,000 gallons of ethanol spilled in an accident in south Greensboro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the landing gear, which is used to keep the trailer upright when not…