Tag: renewable energy

  • Hardwood Trees Chipped for Nova Scotia Biomass

    – by Roger Taylor, February 26, 2015, Herald Business Hardwood trees are being allowed to go up in smoke, and with them a number of rural manufacturing jobs that are hard to replace. It is easy to reach that conclusion after reading stories about several companies in rural Nova Scotia that have been making products from…

  • Local Opposition Affects Oregon Biofuel Plant

    – by Al Maiorino, March 3, 2015, Environmental Leader In 2014, the United States Departments of the Navy, Energy and Agriculture awarded a $70 million grant to Red Rock Biofuels for the design, construction, commissioning and performance testing of a new biofuel refinery.  The biorefinery is planned for Lakeview, Oregon, close to the Fremont Nation Forest…

  • Firing Up Hawaiian Biomass Facility

    – by Chris D’Angelo, February 11, 2015, The Garden Island Green Energy Team, LLC’s $90 million biomass-to-energy facility in Koloa is now hot. “They lit the boiler and have started making steam,” said Kauai Island Utility Cooperative spokesman Jim Kelly, who is handling press inquiries for GET. “For the next probably three to four weeks, they’re…

  • U.S. Added 254 Megawatts of Biomass Energy in 2014

    – by Erin Voegele, February 6, 2015 Biomass Magazine The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects has released the December edition of its Energy Infrastructure Update, reporting the U.S. added 254 MW of biomass energy capacity last year. In December, the U.S. added five biomass generating units with a combined capacity of 23 MW.…

  • Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy

    – by Roy Keene The debate over a single wood powered electrical generator in Eugene has been myopically focused on just one project and one proposed fuel source. Supporters for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s proposed power plant have yet to publicly mention that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that…

  • What a 20-year Biomass Battle Tells Us About Environmental Justice Policy

    – by Brentin Mock, February 24, 2015, Grist It’s well-established that the Environmental Protection Agency has been quite flaccid when it comes to enforcing civil rights issues. The online news outlet E&E recently took the time to remind us how bad it is last week, reporting from Flint, Mich., where environmental justice complaints about a biomass energy plant built…

  • Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees

    – by David E. Malloy, December 29, 2014, Herald Dispatch Biomass, a Kentucky-based company that owns the former South Point Ethanol property adjacent to The Point industrial park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in back taxes, penalties and costs by Jan. 27 to maintain the 78-acre parcel. Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney Brigham Anderson filed…

  • Green Crony Capitalism: Oregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)

    – by Michael Donnelly, February 13, 2015, Salem News Oregon’s Governor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Friday the 13th. His resignation letter was the usual lawyerly-parsed, blame-the-media/take no responsibility sham we’re used to seeing.  He had been governor from 1995-2003 and again from 2011 until now.  The basic allegations which forced the rest of the state’s Democratic…

  • Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire

    – by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-energy” (WTE) is usually a euphemism for trash incineration, disposing of waste while making modest amounts of electricity and sometimes steam for heating purposes. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turning waste into liquid fuels for transportation — is starting to emerge as a subset of WTE. Noting their acronym problem, the…

  • New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels

    – by Justin Gillis, January 28, 2015, New York Times Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank. Turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that the…