The State Environmental Department Fined Jasper Pellets for Air Pollution Ridgeland, SC – Danish company CM Biomass purchased Jasper Pellets of Ridgeland, South Carolina. The pellet mill has been idle since November 2021, and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2022. In September 2022, The Charleston Post & Courier reported that Jasper Pellets […]
-For immediate release- Asheville, NC, September 1st, 2020 – Today, environmental campaigners from the USA and Estonia delivered a letter to Minister Jørgensen [1], warning that the new Danish Climate Agreement fails to protect their countries’ forests and perpetuates Denmark’s contribution to climate change by allowing large-scale biomass burning to continue unabated. The groups call […]
As the City Council of Aarhus works on new climate change legislation, it is time for the city to phase-out district heating created by burning forests from the Southern United States, and phase-in truly renewable alternatives such as green heat pumps and geothermal energy, say 17 American NGOs in a letter sent to the Mayor […]
Enviva’s “Track & Trace” system, which claims to track every ton of wood that the company buys, was proven to be little more than a smokescreen for destruction in a recent North Carolina investigation. TV2, Denmark’s most-viewed public broadcasting news channel, revealed in a primetime four-part series the devastating impacts that Denmark’s import of wood […]
For Immediate Release: October 10, 2019 NGOs demand Denmark end subsidies for biomass, impose a levy on biomass, and introduce a phase-out date immediately in letter sent to Danish Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen and members of the Danish Parliament. An open letter signed by NGOs in the sourcing regions of Danish utility Ørsted’s biomass demand– […]
