A few months ago I reviewed a film that has been circulating the province about the growing use of forest biomass as a form of so-called renewable energy. The film — Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? — reported on how the biomass industry sells itself as green by making two bogus claims: it uses […]
Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts
Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018
News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]
Cellufuel “pauses” operations at its Brooklyn demonstration plant
The start-up biofuel company has received at least $4.5 million in public money; the shut-down is temporary and just part how "innovation" works, insists president Chris Hooper.
Cellufuel has stopped operating its Brooklyn biofuel plant, confirms company president Chris Hooper. “We’re pausing our operations,” Hooper said in a phone interview this morning. The plant will not operate “for the rest of the year,” he said. As Linda Pannozzo reported in May: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct [Bowater Mill...