Tag: energy

  • Water Abuse in the Fracking Process

    – by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network Water is used in shale gas development from cradle to grave, however, most people don’t think about it beyond the issues of groundwater contamination. Procuring and bringing raw materials like silica sand, steel, cement, and fracking chemicals to the well locations requires an incredible amount of manufacturing, transportation,…

  • Eviction of Mobile Home Park for Fracking Water

    – by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network Riverdale Mobile Home Park was located on the Susquehanna River in Piatt Township, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Residents were ordered to leave the park in March 2012 by Aqua PVR LLC, a project of Aqua America, a private water utility, and Penn Virginia Resources, a natural gas pipeline company. …

  • AUDIO: Energy’s Water Footprint in the Western Drought

    Drought in the western U.S. is in the news every day, yet most media coverage ignores the impact from water withdrawals for industrial power facilities. While municipal and agricultural use are major drains on limited water resources, so too are biomass, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power facilities.  On August 20, EJN spoke with Stacy Tellinghuisen,…

  • If You Build It, They Will Cut

    Generating biomass energy doesn’t result in more logging, according to the biomass industry, whose spokespersons claim facilities only make use of “waste” wood already coming from existing logging operations. Ron Kotrba, Senior Editor for Pellet Mill Magazine, wrote in the May/June 2015 issue that biomass is the “most unlikely of the forest products to drive…

  • Transform Don’t Trash NYC

    – by Gavin Kearney (Environmental Justice Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest) & Eddie Bautista (Executive Director, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance) New York City’s homes and businesses generate anywhere from 6 to 8 million tons of mixed solid waste every year – more than any other city in the country. And the manner…

  • Remembering Marvin Wheeler

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network  When we formed Allentown Residents for Clean Air (ARCA) in 2012, we couldn’t have kicked it off without Marvin Wheeler, who found us as an active member of the West Park Civic Association. As a retired school nurse, Marvin understood the health threat posed by the plan to burn 150…

  • Are Media Outlets Megaphones for Polluters?

    Are Media Outlets Megaphones for Polluters? Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 5pm PST / 8 ET Guest Speaker: Steve Horn, Investigative Journalist Are media outlets doing an adequate job covering the health and environmental impacts of dirty energy corporations and other polluters? Not according to Steve Horn, a Madison, Wisconsin-based freelance investigative journalist and writer for DeSmogBlog. Steve…

  • Solar Generation May Sideline Biomass Heating

    [Note: this article is written by long-time wood stove cheerleader, John Ackerly.  It’s nice to see him admitting that his wood-burning dreams are about to be dashed by solar power.  Energy Justice does not support combustion sources for heating, since non-burn alternatives exist, and since there are many pollution and health problems relating to wood stoves.]…

  • Chinese Incinerator Plan Cancelled After Thousands Join Protests

    – by Mimi Lau, April 9, 2015, South China Morning Post A western Guangdong city has cancelled a plan to build an incinerator that prompted a protest – of up to 10,000 people on some accounts – during which three police cars were flipped and a duty office vandalised. Luoding city government posted two letters on…

  • Shuttered Claremont, New Hampshire Incinerator to Reopen

    – by Patrick O’Grady, April 15, 2015, Valley News The shuttered Wheelabrator incinerator on Grissom Lane was sold at auction Tuesday for $1.63 million, with the buyer saying he plans to use it to burn municipal waste. As several bidders stood outside the plant hoping to pick up pieces of equipment at a bargain price, auctioneer…