Tag: renewable energy

  • 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…

  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the January issue of Energy Justice Now — the national forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy – Dirt Cheap Clean Energy –  Energy Storage and Solar Inspiring Customers to Drop Utilities? –  Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint …and more! Please share the January 2015 issue of Energy…

  • Concerns About Syracuse, NY Trash Incinerator Pollution

    – January 6, 2015, LocalSYR It’s the next step to allow trash from Cortland County to be brought into Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility. Both counties’ legislatures this week have held public hearings on the so called “Ash for Trash” plan. For two decades now Onondaga County’s Waste to Energy facility has been burning trash only…

  • Largest Ground Source Heat Pump Installation in UK Poultry Sector

    – September 1, 2015, Farming Life Renewable specialist TGE Group has been awarded a £1m contract to install a 1,300kW heat pump for a Shropshire poultry farmer to provide heat and cooling across four new poultry units. On completion, the system will be the largest Ground Source Heat Pump installation in the UK poultry sector. The…

  • 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,”…

  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    – Sam Ali, January 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renewable Energy Coalition is one step closer to helping bring a solution to the energy crisis in the Copper Country. Last night, KREC gathered experts in the logging and timber industries for a biomass working session to discuss the future of a possible 11-megawatt biomass electric…

  • 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…