Just reiterating again how tired of the shit AmeriKan MSM I am.
"Recipes for new fuels reviving Maine's mills; Vast forests again pose rich resource" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | August 18, 2008
CORINTH, Maine - Corinth Wood Pellets LLC.... turns sawdust into wood pellets for heating stoves and is one of several energy start-ups that Maine officials hope can boost a struggling economy that has long depended on forests, fishing, and other natural resources. As employment in traditional industries, such as papermaking, has declined over the years, Maine officials have sought other ways to generate jobs in northern rural areas, where the unemployment rate may be double that of the state's more urban south.
Yup, despite the THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of jobs lost, here are our saviors!!!
And look, EVERYONE is AGAINST POLLUTION and for a clean environment, etc. But what we are opposed to is the BLATANT AGENDA-PUSHING BUILT on LIES!!
Just read my labels, folks, because I'm tired of linking, linking, linking, linking, debunkings of their damn lies.
Alternative energy offers new opportunities to tap Maine's natural resources. The state's vast forests, for example, could provide feed stock for renewable fuels, such as ethanol and biomass, and the wood and other organic materials can be burned to generate electricity, steam, and heat. There's also the power of wind on isolated ridges and of tides along its coastline.
Yup, save the environment by cutting down the trees.
About 20 miles east of Corinth, Red Shield Environmental restarted the former Georgia Pacific plant in Old Town and rehired nearly 200 workers as it gears up to make wood-based ethanol, which could be blended with gasoline to reduce prices at the pump as well as the need for foreign oil. Near Penobscot Bay, Maine Maritime Academy is a key member in a public-private partnership to harness the power of ocean tides to generate electricity.
Horizon Wind Energy LLC of Houston plans to invest up to $1.6 billion by 2012 to develop several wind energy projects in Aroostook County in northernmost Maine, creating hundreds of construction jobs to build wind farms and nearly 100 permanent jobs to operate them. In Bangor, Hallowell International has tapped another resource, brain power, to develop advanced technology to manufacture electric-powered heat pumps that the company says dramatically lower residential heating bills.
Meanwhile, Corinth Wood Pellets, which reopened a shuttered lumber mill in 2007, has doubled production and employment since the beginning of this year, and expects to double both again by the end of the year. The company now employs about 30. "Demand is off the charts," said George Soffron, the company's chief executive. "People just want to get away from oil."
The markets for alternative energy are likely to grow because oil prices, despite their recent retreat, are expected to remain high. State and federal governments are mandating that utilities use increasing amounts of renewable sources, including wind, solar, and biomass, to generate electricity.
All part of the GLOBALIST AGENDA!
They also are requiring higher concentrations of biofuels to be blended with gasoline, diesel, and heating oil to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Even if they destroy the engine parts and requires more emissions to make than it allegedly saves.
And since the production of biofuels from corn and soy is blamed for rising food prices, governments are encouraging the development of fuels made from nonfood crops such as wood.
Red Shield has a three-part plan to turn the old Georgia Pacific mill into a biofuel refinery. First, make pulp used for higher-end products such as clothing. Next, burn wood waste to run an existing biomass-fired power plant to run the mill and to sell electricity to other businesses. Third, produce ethanol from a waste component of pulp-making known as hemicellulose.
The University of Maine developed the process to extract and refine ethanol from hemicellulose. Since the feed stock is essentially free, Red Shield could make ethanol for less than $1.30 a gallon, according to chief executive Ed Paslawski. Red Shield, which won a $30 million grant from the Energy Department for the ethanol project, expects to begin production in about two years and make about 5 million gallons a year.
Yup, more taxpayer money thrown away!
Still, no one expects it to be easy. Earlier this summer, for example, Red Shield shut down its pulp operation because of a shortage of wood chips and filed for bankruptcy protection because pulp making, while only one part of the eventual operation, is the main revenue producer while Red Shield develops the energy components.
What, after all the GREAT THINGS GOING ON?
Yeah, TUCK THIS in the MIDDLE of the piece, hoping we miss it!
Yes, I AM TIRED of the BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA of the Boston Globe!!!!!!!!!
The chip supply problems have eased, and Red Shield lined up $13.6 million in new financing. It expects to emerge from bankruptcy and restart the mill later this month.
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And the LIES just KEEP on COMING!!!!
PORTLAND, Maine - The US government has been slow to replace aging earth-observing satellite equipment that gives critical information on the earth's climate systems, a 2007 National Research Council report noted. Several states that help fund the United States Geological Survey's 7,400 stream gauges, which measure water flow that can be a signal of climate change, say they will have to stop paying for dozens of the devices, because of cost-cutting.
That's because we got WAR LOOT to dole out!!!
And without the monitors, they can continue to foist the global warming lie upon us, even as that trend has halted (go read the blogs).
And while government agencies are launching several initiatives to better monitor the environment, scientists say much more investment is needed - especially in geographical regions such as the Northeast that are already significantly warming.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
Once, observing nature was a popular scientific pursuit. Naturalists in the 19th and 20th centuries catalogued the timing of plant buds, the date lake ice thawed in spring, and when species began migrating in the fall. Yet today, science is more directed at trying to understand how nature works.
Translation: Science used to be about FACTS and OBSERVATIONS!
Now it is about PUSHING an AGENDA!!!!
"After 1950, there was a lot more interest in theoretical sciences, genetics, and models," said Robert Hirsch, a United States Geological Survey hydrologist. "A lot of it was figuring out how the environment would behave rather than figuring out how it was behaving."
Ahem: Global Warming Debate Over
Like I said AGENDA-PUSHING!!!!
Climate change has opened many scientists' eyes to the renewed need for long-term observations. After all, one of the first compelling pieces of evidence of man-made climate change came from basic measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that began at a Hawaiian observatory in 1958. And the only reason scientists know New England winters are warming up so fast is from long-term temperature records.
That is such a GOD-DAMN LIE!!!
Look, I LIVE HERE, so PLEASE EXPLAIN the COLDER-THAN-AVERAGE SUMMER (the crap garden yield is testimony to that; TOO COOL and TO WET) and the UNUSUALLY HARSH and COLD WINTER and RECORD SNOWFALL we had?
Please, please, explain this to me, you agenda-pushing crappers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, and here is another agenda the BG literally shoves up our ass: A new wedding boom awaits
