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Florida Forest Service Report on Forest Sustainability Challenged
Florida Forest Service Report on Forest Sustainability Challenged – by Bruce Ritchie, September 6, 2013. Source: The Florida Current A Florida Forest Service report required by 2012 legislation found that the state’s forests overall are sustainable but there are some counties where some types of trees are being harvested faster than they are being grown. The report was required…
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Dirty Air for Power We Don’t Need
Dirty Air for Power We Don’t Need – by Dick Stokes, September 19, 2013. Source: Gainesville-Sun The “big lie” method involves making a claim so preposterous people assume it must be true. Gainesville Regional Utilities made the preposterous claim that the air will be cleaner after the biomass incinerator (the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center) starts burning tons…
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There Is Hope For Energy Efficiency!
By Ralph Cavanagh November 26th, 2013 Switchboard NRDC Blog In the global competition for appealing clean energy solutions, a leading entry is the new West Village at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), which today celebrated significant progress toward its goal of becoming the largest planned “zero-net energy” community in the United States.…
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Doctor Talks Incineration
Doctor Talks Incineration – by Mitchell Kirk, September 25, 2013. Source: Pharos-Tribune More than 50 people came out for a presentation Tuesday at Logansport Memorial Hospital about how incineration plants can affect health. The event was organized by Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy, or CARE, a group of citizens who oppose the proposed power plant project in…
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The Sun Shines In Vermont!
U.S. Solar Power Testing Site to Be Built in Vt. Representatives from Sandia, IBM, and the U.S. Department of Energy joined Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, second from left, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, right, to launch the regional center to help test solar technology on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 in Williston, Vt. Officials announced the…
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Too Much Traffic!
By Robert Bowman Forbes November 18, 2013 The nation’s network of highways, roads and bridges isn’t equipped to handle the huge growth in traffic that’s expected in coming years, said Bill Logue, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Freight. Speaking in Houston at the annual conference of the National Industrial Transportation League, Logue said the U.S.…
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Green Energy In Rutland
GMP Opens Energy Innovation Center In Rutland VPR November 20, 2013 By Nina Keck GMP’s new Energy Innovation Center in Rutland was created out of what had been two blighted downtown properties. Green Mountain Power’s new $2.75 million Energy Innovation Center opens today in Rutland. The facility was created out of what had been two blighted…
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Biomass Thermal: The Logs That Break the Forest’s Back
Biomass Thermal: The Logs That Break the Forest’s Back A sector of the biomass incineration industry claims to be turning over a new “green” leaf by building smaller, slightly more energy-efficient facilities focused on heating rather than electricity. Meanwhile, behind the smokescreen, biomass thermal advocates are supporting much of the same forest-raiding, climate-busting, and lung-searing…
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Push for Ethanol Production Carries Costs to Land
– by Dina Cappiello and Matt Apuzzo, November 12, 2013, Source: AP The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield.…
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Bills Show Rate Changes from Biomass Incinerator
– by Christopher Curry, October 30, 2013, Source: The Gainesville Sun The October bills for electric customers of Gainesville Regional Utilities show the first of two rate increases scheduled for this budget year with the biomass plant coming online. Bills sent out this month to residential customers show higher rates than in August and September. Still, they…
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