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By Ben Messenger, Waste Management World.
Iris Solutions, a consortium led by Orgaworld Canada, part of International waste and recycling firm, Shanks Group’s (LSE: SKS) Organics Division, has been selected as the preferred proponent for the Surrey Biofuels Processing Facility project in Canada.
According to the City of Surrey, the facility will be designed to receive and process 115,000 tonnes of organic waste annually. When completed, the facility is expected to be the largest of its kind in Canada with a capacity to process 100% of the City’s organic waste, along with commercial organic waste, helping Metro Vancouver achieve its regional 70% waste diversion target.
2015 World Future Energy Summit to tackle the relationship between shale gas and renewables
By Renewable Energy Focus.com.
Industry leaders to discuss impact of increased gas production on the development of renewable energy.
The impact of US shale gas production on the deployment of renewables, especially in light of the recent, dramatic decline of oil prices, will be addressed by Marie-José Nadeau, chair of the World Energy Council, at this month’s World Future Energy Summit (WFES), the Middle East’s largest gathering of international leaders to drive viable solutions to address the world’s pressing energy challenges.
Energy Commission Approves $5M for Tulare Digester
By the Business Journal.
The California Energy Commission will award a $5 million grant to Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC to help build a digester that will produce biogas using cow manure and food processing waste.
The anaerobic digester, in planning since 2012, is nearly three times larger than any other biogas project funded by the Energy Commission, which is providing the grant from its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.
Construction began last year on the estimated $25 million "Endeavor Facility," at the corner of Paige Avenue and Road 36 east of Tulare. It will produce around 2.8 million diesel gallon equivalents of biogas each year when complete.
Another source of natural gas
By By Joanna D. Underwood, Energy-Vision.
New Yorkers breathed a collective sigh of relief as they got the news the Cuomo administration would ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. But what will it mean for the state's energy sector?
There are modest reserves of conventional natural gas in New York, though production has fallen by more than 50 percent since 2008. So does the state really need its own robust natural gas production, and if not from fracking, could it come from some other source?
The answers are "yes" and "yes."
2014 Year in Review of State Advanced Energy Legislation
By the Center for the New Energy Economy.
With focus turning to the 2015 (legislative) sessions, the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) has produces this Advanced Energy Legislation 2014 Year in Review.
Thus far, 430 advanced energy bills have become law.3,4 While the total number of enacted bills decreased from 713 in 2013, it is notable that the percentages of energy legislation by policy category held relatively stable across the two sessions. This trend suggests that the relative interest in various energy policies may remain somewhat constant year to year.
National Geographic Explorer Culhane Shows Garbage-Energy Isn't Science Fiction
By Marianne Lavelle, The Energy Collective.
Year after year, Culhane has been one of the most riveting storytellers of the extended Explorer family that National Geographic Society brings together at its Washington, D.C. headquarters each June. You’ll become a believer if you spend time listening to T.H. extol the little-known virtues of in-sink garbage disposals, or show photos of renewable energy outposts he’s catalogued in Nepal.
One of Culhane’s passions has been making methane fuel from garbage and other waste through the process of anaerobic digestion. No, you don’t need fusion as Doc Brown used in the Back to the Futuremovies. All you need is the right set-up with well-understood technology, and the kind of ubiquitous micro-organisms that have been among the earliest living “bugs” on Earth.
New York Needs to go to 100% Clean Energy by 2030
By Mark Dunlea, OpEd News.
Last week the Cuomo administration finally said no to fracking for natural gas in NYS.
Hopefully, Governor Cuomo will now embrace the goal of 100% clean renewable energy by 2030.
The fight over investing in fossil fuels is not over. There is a formal hearing on fracking that has to be conducted. There is still the struggle to stop expansion of the fossil fuels infrastructure, from the storage facilities at Seneca Lake and gas pipelines to liquified natural gas facilities off on Long Island and oil trains.
Landfill leads regional effort to lower greenhouse gases
By Sara Sneath, the Victoria Advocate.
While greenhouse gases are on the rise at many area plants, one emitter is turning a profit on its cap on emissions.
The Victoria landfill has steadily decreased its greenhouse gas emissions for three years in a row, but this year's nudge toward an environmentally cleaner facility comes from the cap that is being built over 46 acres of compacted trash, said Darryl Lesak the city's environmental services director.
From 2012 to 2013, the Victoria landfill showed a 9-percent drop in emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas created by human activity.
Technique for turning manure into drinkable water could help lakes
By Steven Verburg | Wisconsin State Journal
Dane County is setting aside about $1.3 million for new technology officials say could turn lake-fouling dairy cow manure into crystal clear water.
The process would be installed at a county-sponsored biodigester just outside of Middleton that this year began collecting natural gas from manure and other waste, and extracting about half of the phosphorus before the manure-waste mixture is spread on farm fields as fertilizer.
Obama Signs Key Alt-Fuel Legislation Into Law
By NGT News.
As expected, President Barack Obama signed into law last Friday two bills that benefit the alternative fuel vehicle industry.
H.R.5771, or the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, retroactively extends over 50 lapsed tax breaks for one year through the end of 2014. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill on Dec. 3, and the Senate later followed suit.
The law includes an extension of the federal $0.50/gallon alternative fuels excise tax credit, which covers compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane autogas and other alternative transportation fuels. The extension means that all alt-fuel purchases made this calendar year are eligible for the credit.
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