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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…
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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,”…
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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…
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Media Helps Biomass Industry Spread Wildfire Hysteria
– by Melissa Santos, January 4, 2015, The News Tribune Ann Stanton credits a state program with saving her home from the worst wildfire in Washington’s history. Despite her property being in the path of the Carlton Complex fire, which scorched about 256,000 acres in Okanogan and Chelan counties last summer, Stanton’s home and the trees…
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Study: The Dark Side of Forest Carbon Sequestration
Science has taught us that humans and trees have a symbiotic relationship: humans and other living creatures exhale carbon dioxide, which trees absorb to produce oxygen, which we then breathe. It’s a perfect circle that maintains life on Earth as we know it. But a recent study out of Rhode Island’s Miskatonic University has identified…
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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…
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Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT
– by Bill Cummings, December 28, 2014, CT Post The discovery of PCBs and other contaminants at Greenwich High School two years ago is only part of a mosaic of cancer-causing toxics that have cropped up at various sites around one of the nation’s wealthiest, most exclusive communities. Pollutants have now been confirmed at three other locations in Greenwich,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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