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The fuel of the future: Environmental lunacy in Europe
Note: As Global Justice Ecology Project and its allies have been saying for years, burning trees to produce electricity is NOT carbon neutral. Biomass is not the silver bullet many once thought it...
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Massachusetts town passes moratorium on biomass and waste-to-energy facilities
By Lucas Willard, April 18, 2013. Source: Northeast Public Radio The town council of Greenfield, Massachusetts has voted to approve a 14-month moratorium on industrial biomass power generators and all...
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Biomass energy: The bad apple in Obama’s renewable energy barrel
Note: Biomass is but one ‘bad apple’ in Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Others, including nuclear, fracked gas, forest carbon offsets, ‘clean coal’ (sic) and other ‘advanced fossil energy’ sources also...
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With EPA rule vacated, now what?
By Tiffany Stecker, July 15, 2013. Source: E&E Energy Wire Mention of the Pinelands Biomass Project, a modest, 17-megawatt planned wood-burning electricity plant in Allendale, S.C., doesn’t turn a...
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West coast wood exports undercut economy and environment
By Samantha Chirillo, December 11, 2013. Source: Energy Justice Network Since the European Union (EU) countries set high carbon reduction standards and counted biomass energy as carbon neutral and...
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Groups expose UK for subsidizing biomass and ‘clean coal’ as renewable energy
December 17, 2013. Source: EcoWatch Campaigners representing groups working on issues of opencast coal and biomass have jointly called on Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) yesterday to...
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Biomass plant drives injustice in North Carolina
Filed under: Actions / Protest, Biodiversity, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests, Forests and Climate Change,...
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Biomass plans scrapped in Scotland, good news for forests and communities
March 27, 2014. Source: Biofuelwatch Forth Energy, formerly a joint venture between Forth Ports and SSE, have confirmed that they are dropping plans to build their consented 100 MWe biomass power...
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Money-burning incinerator proposed
Note: A viable solution to end capitalism, or a devastating false solution to climate change? -The GJEP Team By Mike Ewall, April 1, 2014. Source: Energy Justice Network George Washington Renewable...
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UK energy agency wins ‘biomess’ award as major biomass industry conference is...
April 10, 2014. Source: Biofuelwatch Campaigners have awarded the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) the “Biomess Award” after coming out on top of an online poll coinciding with a...
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