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Enviva Will Provide Biomass To Dominion
Enviva LP has signed a contract with Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Virginia Power to supply biomass to two power facilities in southeast Virginia. In April, Dominion announced plans to convert three 63 MW coal burning peaking plants to 50 MW continuous power plants...
NC State Gets $4 Million Biofuel Production Grant
North Carolina State University will use a $4 million grant to study the most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways of producing biofuels from trees and from forest harvesting residue. NC State is part of the Southeast Partnership for Integrated...
German Pellets To Build Huge Plant In East Texas
German Pellets is coming to America. The largest wood pellet manufacturer in Europe is building its first pellet plant in the U.S. in Tyler County, East Texas. The company intends to manufacture 500,000 metric tons of wood pellets per year, with the first pellets...
USFS Announces One Million Acres Of Protected Forest
The U.S. Forest Service recently announced that the agency has protected one million acres of forest through its Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program. The millionth-acre milestone was reached on private land in New Kent County, Va., as a result of the Logger...
ArborGen Participates In Southeast Program
ArborGen, a leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees for wood, fiber and energy, has been named as a core member of the recently formed Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems (IBSS)....
State Attorneys General Join NAFO In Protest Of Court Ruling
A bi-partisan, geographically diverse group of twenty-six state Attorneys General joined the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) last week in filing briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that rainwater runoff...
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