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Links tagged “biomass”
- 500-kilowatt biogas plant planned for Quonset Point (9/10/13)
NORTH KINGSTOWN — A New Hampshire company plans to build a small power plant in the Quonset Business Park that would generate electricity by burning the gas given off by rotting food — technology that has been largely untried in the United States.
- Eliot selectmen to seek EPA probe of emissions (8/23/13)
ELIOT, Maine — The Board of Selectmen on Thursday night unanimously agreed to send a Good Neighbor Petition to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, asking it to investigate whether Schiller Station in Portsmouth, N.H., has violated the Clean Air Act.
- Local officials glad to see Bald return to Cate Street Capital (8/22/13)
Local officials could not be happier to see the former long-time commissioner of the N.H. Department of Resources and Development back working for the developer of Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin.
- As deadline looms, Steve Duprey works to finance new Concord Steam plant (8/7/13)
Concord Steam has two months left to move forward with its new plant in time for the city’s Main Street renovation project to include heated sidewalks
- DEP fines Pinetree Power $600,000 over air pollution from Westminster facility (7/24/13)
According to the DEP, the state assessed the penalty to resolve a series of longstanding violations of emission limitations for particulate matter, ammonia, carbon monoxide and opacity. There were also violations of its monitoring and reporting requirements.
- State (CT) takes on wood furnaces (9/3/13)
For years, the advocacy group Environment and Human Health Inc. has led the battle against outdoor wood furnaces, claiming their smoke is bad to breathe. Now it has an ally -- Attorney General George Jepsen.
- Pellet company selling ‘heat’ (8/23/13)
A startup company in Orono is trying to convince mid-size businesses and institutions in New England that they can save money by converting from heating oil to wood pellets without buying any fuel or equipment.
- Gardiner City Council puts off wastewater treatment plant heating decision (8/22/13)
The city is considering whether to convert its wastewater treatment plant from No. 2 heating oil to either natural gas, wood pellets or an effluent thermal heating system
- Builders of Plainfield biomass plant hustle to beat deadline (7/31/13)
Plainfield — Builders are working around the clock to complete a Plainfield power plant by December so it can qualify for a $70 million federal tax credit.
- Biomass plant moves into testing and commissioning phase (7/11/13)
BERLIN -- While construction continues at the Burgess BioPower biomass plant, the project has begun the transition into the testing and commissioning phase according to Alexandra Ritchie, director of government and community relations for Cate Street Capital.