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Poll: 61% of Americans Clueless about Biomass Energy
[Take a look at the Harris Poll here. – Ed.] – by Erin Voegele, March 28, 2014. Source: Biomass Magazine A recently released Harris Poll addresses public perception of a variety of energy technologies, including biomass energy. The results show that many U.S. adults are unfamiliar with biomass energy and its benefits. Within its results, the company…
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Trees Are Not the Solution to Our Electricity Needs
– by Marvin Roberson, April 27, 2014. Source: Detroit Free Press There is a lot of concern in Michigan, especially the Upper Peninsula, about meeting future electrical needs. Many aging, polluting coal plants are soon to go offline, as they should. New coal plants are unlikely to replace them, and would be a poor choice even…
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Fire at Brand New Biomass Incinerator in Rothschild, Wisconsin
-April 11, 2014. Source: Wasau Daily Herald ROTHSCHILD — Firefighters extinguished a blaze that ignited in a dust collector at the Domtar biomass power plant early Friday morning. Rothschild Fire Department crews responded to the plant just before 4:30 a.m., said Chief Marc Hill. When crews got to the plant, a fire was burning inside the dust collector and…
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Aborted Fetuses Sent to Oregon, Incinerated for Energy
[No intention of getting into pro-choice vs. pro-life discussion–it’s just important to know where your energy comes from. -Ed.] – by Joe Schaeffer, April 23, 2014. Source: Newsmax Aborted human fetuses are being shipped from British Columbia to the United States, where they are incinerated to provide electricity for Oregon residents. The British Columbia Health Ministry…
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Dirty Biomass Facility Proposed for Nebraska
– by Erin Voegele, April 25, 2014. Source: Biomass Magazine A proposed project under development by Southwest Renewable Resources aims to develop a unique biomass fuel production facility and up to 25 MW of bioenergy capacity in South Sioux City, Neb. Earlier this year, the Nebraska cities of South Sioux City, Wakefield and Wayne, along with…
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Enhanced Oil Recovery is NOT Carbon Sequestration
Most carbon sequestration projects involve using the CO2 to pump into underground oil formations in order to get out more oil than they’d normally be able to extract. This has some obvious contradictions and should not be considered carbon sequestration, especially since much of that CO2 comes back up in the produced oil. As this…
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Trash Incineration More Polluting than Coal
To make the same amount of energy as a coal power plant, trash incinerators in 2018 released 65% more carbon dioxide (CO2), as much carbon monoxide, three times as much nitrogen oxides (NOx), five times as much mercury, nearly six times as much lead and 27 times more hydrochloric acid (HCl). Trash incinerators are the…
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Public Lands, Dirty Energy
– by Josh Schlossberg, Energy Justice Now Grassroots advocates have done a bang up job alerting the American public to the disturbing health and environmental impacts of the extraction, transportation, and generation of dirty energy (fossil fuels, nuclear power, and biomass/trash incineration). Greenhouse gases, air pollution, and water contamination from energy sources requiring smokestacks or…
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Biomass Lease Terminated by Jasper Clean Energy in Indiana
– by Matthew Crane, April 21, 2014. Source: Dubois County Free Press Dr. Norma Kreilein, her husband, Mike, Alec Kalla and Rock Emmert were all in session during the Jasper Utility Service Board (USB) meeting Monday night — the eve of Earth Day — when it was announced that Jasper Clean Energy would be terminating the lease…
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Are Climate Claims for Burning Renewable Trees a Smokescreen?
– by Robert McClure, April 21, 2014. Source: The Tyee/Investigate West Nestled into a seaside forest on the University of British Columbia’s lands, amid a carpet of sword ferns and salal, sits a gleaming industrial facility that’s been hailed as a significant step toward a carbon-neutral future for B.C., Canada and even the world. The wood-gas…
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