Tag: renewable energy

  • 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…

  • October/November issue of Energy Justice Now | Where the Climate March Tripped Up

    Take a deep breath and prepare yourself for the October / November issue of Energy Justice Now, a forum for the dirty energy resistance. Fossil Fuel Divestment – Fossil Fuel Divestment: How to Evolve the Campaign –  Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution? –  Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial …and more! Please share the October /…

  • 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”…

  • Biomass Investigative Review Will Begin Soon in Gainesville, FL

    – October 16, 2014, WCJB It’s official – an investigative review into decisions made between GRU and GREC officials will soon begin. City officials voted to approve the contract to begin the review that will question decisions made relating to the biomass plant. The city will be shelling out close to $190,000 for the review. Additional…

  • $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…

  • 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…

  • Biomass Incinerator a Threat to Children

    – by Norma Kreilein, MD, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics [The biomass facility proposed for Jasper, Indiana referred to in this letter was canceled this year thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kreilein and Healthy Dubois County –Ed.] I am writing as a concerned pediatrician in Southern Indiana. We live in the heart of…

  • Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?

    – by Aidan Harrison, December 5, 2014, Northumberland Gazette Its obsession with ‘markets’ has already placed our railways and utilities in the hands of big foreign state and corporate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the technology of wind power is nothing like as inefficient as its fanatical detractors claim. In terms of…