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Biomass Magazine
The U.S. EPA has finalized an amendment to its nonhazardous secondary materials (NHSM) rule that will add three sources of fuel to its list of categorical nonwaste fuels, potentially making it easier for biomass energy facilities to make use of them. Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, NHSM rulemakings identify which nonhazardous secondary materials are or aren't solid wastes when burned in combustion units.
If material is a solid waste under RCRA, a combustion unit burning it is required to meet the Clean Air Act Section 129 emission standards for solid waste incineration units. If the material is not a solid waste, combustion units are required to meet the CAA Section 112 emission standards for commercial, industrial and institutional boilers, much less stringent standards.
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NUVO
Jeff Stant, executive director of the Indiana Forest Alliance, writes: "Forestry is NOT forest science. Our hardwood forests have been here for thousands of years and do not depend upon forestry to survive or be 'healthy.' A serious problem has emerged in our judgment because there are no forest scientists, only foresters, managing our state forests, and they are viewing these public forests incorrectly through the lens of industrial forestry. However our state law does not and should not require every acre of our state forests to be logged."
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Investing Daily
The wood pellet business is booming, in particular the export trade from the U.S. to Europe. The main demand driver in Europe is the European Commission’s 2020 climate and energy plan, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Member states have national renewable energy targets, which some countries are meeting by using wood pellets to produce electricity. This can either be done by burning the wood pellets alongside coal or with a dedicated wood pellet power plant. The primary objective is the displacement of coal, with its inherently high carbon dioxide emissions, in power production.
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The Times and Democrat
The forestry sector in South Carolina has an annual economic impact of $18.6 billion, employs more than 90,000 people, is the largest harvested crop at $759 million and is the No. 1 export commodity from the Port of Charleston at $1.5 billion. And yet, there remains plenty of room for growth.
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CBC
The Yukon Government has officially adopted a strategy to get Yukoners to heat their homes in a way that it says is cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. The government drafted its biomass strategy last year, noting that wood-fueled heating systems are present in just 20 per cent of Yukon homes. Yukoners spend $60 million a year on fossil fuels, a figure the government wants reduced.
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Science 2.0
Last year, 6 million tons of wood pellets harvested from forests in Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia were shipped across the Atlantic, to be burnt in renewable biomass power plants. This was almost double the 2013 figure. The U.S. wood pellet industry is booming.
Demand is largely driven by European countries wanting to meet targets set out in the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive. Half of the pellets exported from the U.S. were used to generate electricity in Britain's massive Drax power station, which is slowly converting from coal to biomass in order to reduce carbon emissions and claim valuable Renewable Obligation certificates for green electricity.
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Mongabay
According to a rating created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Argentina is among the top 10 countries that destroy their forests the most, and the FAO calculates the loss has amounted to more than 7.5 million hectares since 1990. Satellite data from 2004 analyzed by Argentina's Secretary of Agriculture, Cattle, Fishing and Food confirm this; they have found a clear link between areas planted with soybean and the deforestation of native Argentinean forests.
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Biomass Magazine
Challenging market conditions and the realities of bringing large production facilities to nameplate capacity are thinning a once-crowded pellet project development herd. What remains to be seen is whether foreign pellet buyers will have any appetite to engage in offtake agreements with producers in this capacity class.
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Scoop
New Zealand's third largest export industry, forestry, is steadily shrinking. Ministry for Primary Industries figures reveal that only 3,000 hectares of new forest were planted in 2015 and that the total area of planted forest fell by 16,000 hectares. Forest Owners Association technical manager Glen Mackie describes the figures as predictable and says the area of forest is likely to continue to fall, until the cost of land can be justified by the income it generates.
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