Category Archives: Biomass Opponents

Not enough wood for GRU's furnace

Posted on December 30, 2009 by jamesmaloy

Published with permission of Dian Deevey, Chair, Alachua County Environmental Protection Advisory Committee, Gainesville, Florida Gainesville Sun Letters to the Editor – Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 In his Dec. 20 column, Ron Cunningham listed some of the reasons wood … Continue reading →

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Biomass Incineration – A case study in Massachussets

Posted on December 23, 2009 by jamesmaloy

By Mary S. Booth, PhD mbooth@massenvironmentalenergy.org I thought you might be interested to see the “Dear Congressman” factsheet I prepared back in April when I was in DC. Linking RECs from biomass to REAL carbon emissions is the last point … Continue reading →

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Massachusetts Medical Society adopts policy opposing biomass power plants

Posted on December 23, 2009 by jamesmaloy

Waltham, Mass. – Dec. 9 –  On the grounds that biomass power plants pose an unacceptable risk to the public’s health by increasing air pollution, the Massachusetts Medical Society has adopted a policy opposing three currently proposed large-scale biomass power … Continue reading →

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Massachusets Chapter of Sierra Club and Mass Audubon Announce Opposition to Biomass

Posted on December 22, 2009 by jamesmaloy

Mass Audubon Citing “significant concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and impacts to forests associated with large scale biomass use” Mass Audubon  released a public statement today opposing the permitting, construction, and operation of electric generation woody biomass facilities pending proposed … Continue reading →

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