Tag: biofuels

  • 34-Megawatt Biomass Incinerator Proposed for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

    –  by Andy Balaskovitz, November 10, 2014, Midwest Energy News Developers from metro Detroit have plans to build a $100 million, 34 MW biomass plant in the central Upper Peninsula, about 20 miles south of an aging coal plant that is the ongoing focus of the region’s energy crisis. The company building the plant, Marquette Green Energy LLC, says…

  • Lockheed Martin Inks Agreement with Waste-of-Energy Firm

    – by Eric Reinhardt, October 13, 2014, Business Journal News Network OWEGO, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) has signed a manufacturing agreement with Concord Blue Energy, Inc. to provide all manufacturing support for the firm’s reformertechnology. That technology converts waste to energy using advanced conversion technology. Lockheed Martin is now the “exclusive manufacturing provider”…

  • $91 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Louisiana Biofuel Plant

    – Cole Avery, October 3, 2014, The Times-Picayune Tom Vilsack, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced a $91 million loan guarantee from the federal government to help build a biomass fuel plant in Louisiana. Vilsack traveled to Baton Rouge on Friday to make the announcement. He said the plant could have a “profound…

  • Lakeview Biofuel Plant Proposal Raises Air Quality Concerns

    – September 25, 2014, Oregon Public Broadcasting A project proposed in Lakeview, Oregon, would turn woody biomass from logging into biofuels for Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Navy and Marines. The biofuel would have fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional jet fuel and diesel, but some worry the project might add to existing air quality problems in…

  • Is Biomass All It’s Cut Up to Be?

    – by Howard Brown, October 17, 2014, Summit Daily One possible reason for sticking to the ill-advised Ophir Mountain and other clear-cutting plans is that the clear-cut trees would go to the biomass power plant in Gypsum. Biomass power is renewable energy. It wouldn’t justify destroying Summit County’s wonderful forests and trails, but biomass is green…

  • Man Killed in Accident at Drax Biomass Plant in Louisiana

    – October 21, 2014, MyArkLaMiss.com The worker who died after an accident at a Drax Biomass plant in Morehouse Parish has been identified as 32-year old Christopher Erving of West, Mississippi Erving was a contracted employee of the Jacksonville, Florida based Haskell Corporation  Drax Biomass has released a statement on the incident: “It is with deep…

  • New Contract to Accelerate Use of Biomass in China

    – October 13, 2014, Bioenergy News US-based renewable fuels producer BlueFire Renewables has finalised and signed a new master engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its cellulosic ethanol plant in Fulton, Mississippi. The contract is with China International Water and Electric, a subsidiary of renewable energy company China Three Gorges (CTG). ‘The master EPC structure…

  • 34.5 Megawatt Biomass Project Planned for Japan

    – September 16, 2014, New Generation Power New Generation Power International, a leading global renewable energy company, will develop three 11.5 Megawatt (MW) wood biomass plants in Japan. Together, Chicago-based New Generation Power International (NGPI) and Nippon Energy Solution, Inc. (NES) will launch a new wood-based biomass energy generation venture that will construct three separate facilities…

  • Valero’s Indiana Ethanol Plant Damaged After Morning Fire

    – October 13, 2014, The Paper of Montgomery County Crews were called to an early morning fire at the Valero ethanol plant in Montgomery County Monday. After 1 a.m., a call came in about a fire at the Valero plant, just off of U.S. 231 near Linden. Firefighters from six departments responded to the plant just…

  • Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial

    (Graphic: Indiana Joel) We’re all familiar with climate change deniers, cheerfully and/or willfully ignorant folk who refuse to accept that human-caused carbon emissions are responsible for the climate crisis — or that there even is a climate crisis. Those of us who value science and common sense typically have as much patience for these twenty-three percent of…