Tag: renewable energy

  • What the Frack? Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel is Not Good to the Last Drop

    – by Mark Robinowitz, PeakChoice.org The toxic impacts of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas have been subject to public debates, protests, and lawsuits, among other tactics to stop these dangers. But the other half of the fracking story, which has had much less attention, is the exaggeration of recoverable reserves. The fracking industry claims shale…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    – by Dave Miller, September 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougherty Payroll Development Authority has given the go-ahead for its part in the proposed new biomass generator in conjunction with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We reported Tuesday that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Procter and Gamble that could help them cut waste, and allowing the…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    – by Dave Miller, September 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougherty Payroll Development Authority has given the go-ahead for its part in the proposed new biomass generator in conjunction with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We reported Tuesday that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Procter and Gamble that could help them cut waste, and allowing the…

  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    – by Duane Shimgawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacific Business News The only coal-fired power plant in Hawaii, which is the single largest generating plant on Oahu, is under financial stress because there is no financial reserve, according to the Hawaiian Electric Co.’s new energy plan released this week. Hawaiian Electric is also asking AES Hawaiito convert some of…

  • Tennessee Biomass Incinerator Shut Down For Costs, Safety

    – by Frank Munger, August 24, 2014, Knoxville News Sentinel Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biomass Steam Plant, heralded as a money saver and friend to the environment, failed to live up to its hype operationally, and the U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly trying to renegotiate its deal with the company that performed this and other projects at…

  • Creditors Given OK to Foreclose on WA Biofuel Facility

    – by Kristi Pihl, August 23, 2014, Tri City Herald Some of Green Power’s Tri-City creditors have received the green light to foreclose on the troubled biofuel company’s unfinished Pasco plant. Franklin County Superior Court Judge Cameron Mitchell recently approved a request by the creditors to foreclose on the liens they hold against the company’s personal…

  • Berlin, NH Biomass Incinerator Operational, But At What Cost To Ratepayers?

    – by Chris Jensen, August 21, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio A new biomass plant in Berlin is finally producing electricity for Public Service of New Hampshire under a controversial 20-year contract that a report says will cost PSNH ratepayers $125 million more than if the electricity was purchased on the open market… That estimate came…

  • Oregon Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Biomass Air Pollution

    – by Lisa Arkin, August 6, 2014, Beyond Toxics On August 6, Beyond Toxics filed a civil rights and environmental justice complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the Lane County Regional Air Protection Agency’s decision to allow a power plant to increase its discharges of hazardous particulate matter. The complaint alleges that allowing…

  • More Logging and Biomass Burning Won’t Solve Job Woes

    –  by Rob Handy, July 6, 2014, Register Guard During my tenure as a Lane County commissioner, I watched Lane County’s timber harvest rise from 337 million board feet in 2009 to 590 million board feet in 2012, reported concisely by the state Department of Forestry. In spite of this huge surge, a 75 percent increase,…

  • Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Permit Reinstated

    – by Suzanne McLaughlin, August 20, 2014, MassLive Massachusetts Land Court has granted Palmer Renewable Energy’s request to reinstate its building permit for a biomass wood-burning plant in East Springfield, undoing the Springfield Zoning Board of Appeals’ decision that the building permit was invalid. The decision states that no special permit is needed and the building…