Alabama “Truck Safety Days” Continue With Good Results

Dec 9, 2011 | News, News/PR

The Alabama Forestry Association (AFA) and the Alabama Loggers Council (ALC) recently initiated a log truck safety campaign aimed at eliminating log truck accidents. The program, “Logging Zero Accidents,” began with a series of truck driver safety days at each of...

Enviva Announces Wood Pellet Facility In Virginia

Dec 9, 2011 | News, News/PR

Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, announced on December 1 that it is planning to build a 454,000 metric ton wood pellet manufacturing facility in Courtland, Va., which could begin operations as early as the...

Senate Proposes Cutting Wildland Fire Prevention Fund After Record Decade Of Destructive Fires

Dec 5, 2011 | News

A group of nine western Senators are ringing the alarm about a 2012 proposal to cut support from two wildland fire prevention programs, the Hazardous Fuels and State Fire Assistance programs. These critical programs provide funding for work that makes people and...

First Biomass Fuel Load Delivered To Southern Company

Dec 2, 2011 | News

Southern Company received its first fuel load delivery November 1 at the Nacogdoches (Texas) Generating Facility owned by its subsidiary Southern Power. The plant is expected to be the largest biomass facility in the U.S. as it fulfills a 20-year contract to provide...

Westervelt Breaks Ground On New Alabama Pellet Plant

Nov 28, 2011 | News

Westervelt Renewable Energy recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new pellet plant to be built near Aliceville, Ala. at a former industrial plant site. The plant will produce 280,000 metric tons of pellets annually, which will be shipped down the...

Happy Thanksgiving

Nov 23, 2011 | News

Southern Loggin’ Times magazine wishes everyone a safe, happy and blessed Thanksgiving!