Environment
Report: Company Pushing Biomass Plant Misled State About Pollution Rate
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Energy policy group claims wood-burning power plants just as dirty as coal plants, takes aim at eastern Kentucky biomass project.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/category/environment/page/2/)
Energy policy group claims wood-burning power plants just as dirty as coal plants, takes aim at eastern Kentucky biomass project.
The story behind a billion-dollar biomass project that would have a huge impact in eastern Kentucky.
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.
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.
A timeline of events from 2009 through today showing how the ecoPower plant came to be.