Environment
How Politics, Misinformation & Money Fueled A Power Plant In Coal Country
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The story behind a billion-dollar biomass project that would have a huge impact in eastern Kentucky.
Environment
Is Biomass The Answer For A Region Powered By Coal?
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Biomass facilities usually burn plant-based materials—everything from trees to wood pellets to specially-grown crops—and convert that heat into electricity. Several factors determine whether a biomass power plant is a boon or a curse for the local environment and the planet. Read more about them here.
Environment
Hazard Biomass: Read Letters Signed By Legislators
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During a two-week span in July 2011, eight eastern Kentucky politicians signed supportive but misleading letters seeking to advance the cause of a proposed biomass-burning plant in Perry County.
Most of the letters were brief, just three or four paragraphs. And unless they were laid side-by-side, it would be easy to miss the fact that they all contained virtually the same wording, paragraph by paragraph. Read them here for yourself.
Environment
Hazard Biomass: Timeline Of Events
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A timeline of events from 2009 through today showing how the ecoPower plant came to be.