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Trash Incineration is the Most Expensive Way to Manage Waste
The incinerator industry admits that incineration is more expensive than landfilling. This is true in nearly every local instance we’ve seen, with rare exceptions. Here are some of the admissions by the industry: Most recently, the industry has admitted that incineration “is considerably more costly than the alternative of landfill disposal” and that a “principal…
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Natural Gas + Ethanol = Explosion
– by Larry Phillips, June 30, 2014, Leader and Times academized.com Leader & Times Online Firefighters responded to an explosion Sunday evening at Conestoga Energy’s Arkalon Ethanol Plant. Fortunately, no one was injured from the blast or subsequent fire, according to Seward County Fire Chief Mike Rice. “We got the page at 7:04 p.m. (Sunday) about…
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Zero Waste Hierarchy
Printable PDF version Zero Waste Hierarchy (short, sweet version): RedesignReduceSource Separate: (reusables, recycling, composting and trash) Zero Waste Hierarchy (in more detail): The landfill management aspects are nuanced because it’s critical to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from landfills are avoided, unlike how landfills are commonly managed today. For a full appreciation of the need…
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On Biomass, EPA Should Follow the Science
Other than the author’s support for so-called “sustainable” biomass, overall a decent piece. – Josh – by William H. Schlesinger, June 18, 2014, The Hill In America’s Southeastern states, there’s a booming energy trend that’s as big a step backward as imaginable. In fact, it stretches back to the time of cavemen. Power companies are burning…
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Solar Power Heats 90% of Community’s Homes…in Canada
– Drake Landing Solar Community The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a master planned neighbourhood in the Town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada that has successfully integrated Canadian energy efficient technologies with a renewable, unlimited energy source – the sun. The first of its kind in North America, DLSC is heated by a district system designed…
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EPA: Carbon Rules Could Ensure Nuclear Power’s Survival
[Another reason why the dirty energy resistance needs to band together. -Josh] – by Julie Wernau, June 18, 2014, Chicago Tribune Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday that the federal agency’s proposed carbon rules are designed to boost nuclear plants that are struggling to compete. “There are a handful of nuclear facilities that because…
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Radioactive Leaks Found at 75% of US Nuke Sites
– Associated Press, June 21, 2011, CBS Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.…
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Energy Justice Now – A Forum for the Dirty Energy Resistance [June 2014]
Check out the inaugural June 2014 issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! In the June issue of Energy Justice Now (a forum for the dirty energy resistance): -“Why Solidarity is Needed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters“ -“Public Lands, Dirty Energy“ -“On the Dirty Energy Policy Front“ …and more!!! Please share the June 2014 issue…
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Why Solidarity is Needed More than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters
– by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network Most progress in stopping polluting energy and waste industries is accomplished by grassroots activism, stopping one project at a time. Many assume that grassroots groups are “NIMBY” types just pushing polluters from one community to another. However, 50% to 95% of each wave of industrial development in recent decades has…
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