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Report: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage a Mistake
A new report by Rachel Smolker and Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch condemns carbon capture and storage (CCS) as setting the stage for increased burning of climate-busting biomass and fossil fuels for energy, in effect keeping us from looking at the way the way we produce—and consume—energy. BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage): Climate saviour or dangerous…
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A “Sustainable” Military?
– by Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch In December 2012, the U.S. Senate voted to strike language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have limited military use of biofuels by requiring that they only purchase biofuels at costs comparable to petroleum fuels. Further, they amended the bill to allow defense spending on refinery construction, previously prohibited. That…
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Gainesville Sun’s Biomass Cover-Up
– by Karen Orr, Energy Justice Network One of the tragedies of life in Gainesville, Florida is that there is so little reality based journalism. In today’s SUN, editorial page editor Ron Cunningham continues the newspaper’s disinformation campaign on the city’s Gainesville Renewable Energy Center (GREC) boondoggle. Cunningham rewrites history when he states: “I just wish they had been here hotly debating…
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Biomass Health Study a Smokescreen?
A study on the health risks from a biomass power incinerator proposed for Placer County, California contains “several fallacies,” according to Norma Kreilein, MD, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. A Health Impact Assessment of the Proposed Cabin Creek Biomass Energy Facility in Placer County, California claims that the construction of the 2.2 megawatt Cabin Creek…
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Report: Biomass Dirtier Than Coal
Friends of the Earth (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), Greenpeace, and the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds denounce burning trees for electricity as a greater threat to the climate over the coming decades than burning coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a report released in November. The report, Dirtier Than Coal: Why Government plans to subsidise…
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Battle for Arctic Energy
CNBC By Reuters December 10, 2013 Predisdent Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s Military to increase its focus on the Arctic and finish plans by the end of the year to upgrade military bases in the resource-rich region where world powers jostle for control. Speaking to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin praised the military’s work in the…
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The Biomass Tide is Turning
Dear Biomass Opponent, Thank you for being a part of the national Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign. As I’m sure you already know, over the past few years our grassroots network across 32 states has shed light on the harmful health and environmental impacts from biomass incineration at the local, regional, national and international level. Industrial-scale biomass energy has…
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EPA Sued for Ignoring Paper Mill CO2 Emissions
Massive emissions of greenhouse gases in the form of carbon dioxide make biomass and coal burning facilities major contributors to climate change. Yet one large source of climate pollution that’s been flying under the radar has been pulp and paper mills—until now. International Paper’s Ticonderoga Mill , New York (photo: itsgettinghotinhere.org) A lawsuit against the US Environmental…
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Biomass Profiteering Trumps Children’s Health in Rothschild, Wisconsin
For many people, nothing typifies the American Dream more than buying a house in a small town to start a family. Five years ago school teacher Robert Hughes and his wife purchased a home in Rothschild, Wisconsin, population 5,000 and had two children, now three years and three months old. Today, the Hughes’ dream is…
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Report Predicts Bioenergy Crop Invasion
A new report released by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) details yet another in a long and growing list of ecological and economic threats from industrial-scale biomass energy: the risk of bioenergy crops becoming invasive species. Growing Risk: Addressing the Invasive Potential of Bioenergy Feedstocks discusses the negative impacts on the environment and the economy that are likely…
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