- by Josh Schlossberg
(source: Jim Forsyth, Reuters, Dec. 20, 2011)
Over half a billion trees have died in Texas due to drought over the past year, according to the Texas Forest Service. “In 2011, Texas experienced an exceptional drought, prolonged high winds, and record-setting temperatures,” said Forest Service Sustainable Forestry chief Burl Carraway.
The Piney Woods in east Texas experienced some of the greatest tree die-off. American Renewables’ 100-megawatt Nacogdoches biomass power incinerator is under construction in Sacul, Texas, located in the Piney Woods region.
The biomass industry has been working for years to increase public lands logging across the West to fuel an expansion of biomass power incineration.
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As usual we will pay for a few to profit with our health, dirty air, dirty water, contaminated land, devastated forest and in some cases our lives will be lost. Wouldn’t it be nice if they would be responsible enough to do research and real scientific studies done before they inflict this injustice on the masses without a thought to the suffering they are causing. They maybe wealthy and irrogant but they are really idiots to think the people can’t see what’s going on. Oh, that’s right they have bought and paid for our government. I hope it cost them plenty because it’s costing us plenty and we don’t even profit from it. Shame on the corporation that build biomass and biofuel technologies. The plants do stink but I’m not sure if that’s the old money buidling it or the back room deals with subsidies abound.