Tag: trees
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2 arrested — Sunoco cutting trees for Mariner 2 pipeline route
Sunoco is rapidly cutting down trees on the Gerhart’s property in central PA to make way for more gas to be shipped overseas. Two people were arrested today, one student from Juniata College, who is alleged to have crossed into the claimed Mariner East 2 pipeline right-of-way to warn crews that a tree they were…
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Family defends maple syrup trees from gas pipeline
Now through the end of March: Come up to Susquehanna County and defend the Holleran family’s maple syrup grove from being cut down for a gas pipeline! http://wnep.com/2016/02/01/trees-on-chopping-block-for-natural-gas-pipe…“A family’s maple syrup operation is in jeopardy in Susquehanna County…”
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Hardwood Trees Chipped for Nova Scotia Biomass
- by Roger Taylor, February 26, 2015, Herald Business Hardwood trees are being allowed to go up in smoke, and with them a number of rural manufacturing jobs that are hard to replace. It is easy to reach that conclusion after reading stories about several companies in rural Nova Scotia that have been making products from…
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Cutting the Trees We Need to Save the Forest
- by Bob Berwyn, July 7, 2014, The Colorado Independent Even here, in a cool forest hollow near Tenmile Creek, you can feel the tom-toms. It’s a distant beat, born in the marbled halls of Congress, where political forces blow an ill wind across Colorado’s forests. Nearly every Western elected official with a clump of shrubby…
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Half the Wood for New Hampshire Biomass Incinerator from Out of State
- by Chris Jensen, May 23, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio About 51 percent of the wood purchased for the new Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin during its first two months of operation came from New Hampshire, according to a new “sustainability” report filed with the state’s Site Evaluation Committee. Thirty-five percent came from Maine. Five percent from Vermont.…
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The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees
[Yet another bad idea fueled by the fantasy of infinite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014, Source: Phys Org A key challenge in the biofuels landscape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels other than corn ethanol and vegetable oil-based biodiesel—into the transportation pool. Utilization of advanced biofuels is stipulated by the Energy Independence and Security Act; however,…
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Trees Are Not the Solution to Our Electricity Needs
- by Marvin Roberson, April 27, 2014. Source: Detroit Free Press There is a lot of concern in Michigan, especially the Upper Peninsula, about meeting future electrical needs. Many aging, polluting coal plants are soon to go offline, as they should. New coal plants are unlikely to replace them, and would be a poor choice even if…
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Are Climate Claims for Burning Renewable Trees a Smokescreen?
- by Robert McClure, April 21, 2014. Source: The Tyee/Investigate West Nestled into a seaside forest on the University of British Columbia’s lands, amid a carpet of sword ferns and salal, sits a gleaming industrial facility that’s been hailed as a significant step toward a carbon-neutral future for B.C., Canada and even the world. The wood-gas fired…
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Whole Trees 90% of Rothschild, WI Biomass Incinerator Fuel
- by Kevin Murphy, February 26, 2014. Source: Wasau Daily Herald wausaudailyherald The recently built power plant at Domtar paper mill is getting only 10 percent of its fuel from logging waste, which originally was supposed to supply nearly all of the plant’s energy needs. The 50-megawatt, $255 million power plant went online in November to provide steam for Domtar’s paper…
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Genetically Engineered Trees as Biofuel Feedstock
[Now that corn ethanol has fallen out of favor politically, the bioenergy industry will be focusing more and more on forests.] - by Alex Maragos, November 28, 2014, WLFI Ethanol made from corn already powers millions of cars and trucks on the road, but a group of researchers at Purdue University wants to make biofuel better.…