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BLM Plan to Convert Nevada’s Pinyon Forests to Biomass Threatens Ancient Rituals
– by Lisa Gale Garrigues, Indian Country Today Media Network For centuries the pinyon trees of Nevada have nourished the Shoshone, Paiute and other peoples, giving them pine nuts, ingredients for soup, milk and even a place to pray. Now it is about to become something else: a profitable source of biomass. The Pinyon-Juniper Partnership, a consortium…
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Local Opposition Affects Oregon Biofuel Plant
– by Al Maiorino, March 3, 2015, Environmental Leader In 2014, the United States Departments of the Navy, Energy and Agriculture awarded a $70 million grant to Red Rock Biofuels for the design, construction, commissioning and performance testing of a new biofuel refinery. The biorefinery is planned for Lakeview, Oregon, close to the Fremont Nation Forest…
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Firing Up Hawaiian Biomass Facility
– by Chris D’Angelo, February 11, 2015, The Garden Island Green Energy Team, LLC’s $90 million biomass-to-energy facility in Koloa is now hot. “They lit the boiler and have started making steam,” said Kauai Island Utility Cooperative spokesman Jim Kelly, who is handling press inquiries for GET. “For the next probably three to four weeks, they’re…
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Contaminated Love Canal Soil Going to Nebraska Incinerator
– by Richard Piersol, March 1, 2015, Lincoln Journal Star About a thousand tons of contaminated soil from the notorious Love Canal environmental disaster in New York is being shipped by rail to Kimball for incineration because the company that is disposing of it ran into objections from Canadians, who didn’t want it. Love Canal, a…
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U.S. Added 254 Megawatts of Biomass Energy in 2014
– by Erin Voegele, February 6, 2015 Biomass Magazine The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects has released the December edition of its Energy Infrastructure Update, reporting the U.S. added 254 MW of biomass energy capacity last year. In December, the U.S. added five biomass generating units with a combined capacity of 23 MW.…
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Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy
– by Roy Keene The debate over a single wood powered electrical generator in Eugene has been myopically focused on just one project and one proposed fuel source. Supporters for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s proposed power plant have yet to publicly mention that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that…
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What a 20-year Biomass Battle Tells Us About Environmental Justice Policy
– by Brentin Mock, February 24, 2015, Grist It’s well-established that the Environmental Protection Agency has been quite flaccid when it comes to enforcing civil rights issues. The online news outlet E&E recently took the time to remind us how bad it is last week, reporting from Flint, Mich., where environmental justice complaints about a biomass energy plant built…
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2014 Maryland State Policies
Environmental Community Statement on Maryland’s “Renewable Energy” Bills Out of our unifying concern for public health, social justice and environmental integrity, we urge the Maryland legislature to reconsider aspects of several energy and waste bills that would continue to move our state toward increased use of biomass and waste incineration (so-called “waste-to-energy”). Public opinion strongly…
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Canadian Incineration Presentation
Report on incinerator presentation before conference of Canadian municipal officialsby Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network & Zero Waste Canada On Feb 12th, 2015, I presented at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Sustainable Communities Conference in London, Ontario. It was the first time they held a panel to present both sides of a polarized issue. The…
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WASTE TO WEALTH
RSVP here WASTE TO WEALTH: BRINGING RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING JOBS TO BALTIMORE Wed, March 11th, 2015 7pm – 9pm Baltimore City Community College 2901 Liberty Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD 21215 (map) The Waste to Wealth = Green Jobs event is being held to present the potential for developing small minority-owned companies in the reuse,…
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