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PG&E has Issued an RFI for a Biomethane Project - Register for
networking forum by February 22, 2008
"PG&E is today issuing a Request for Information (“RFI”)
to identify partners for potential projects to demonstrate technologies
that could cost-effectively produce significant quantities of biomethane
(i.e. pipeline-quality methane derived from biomass). " For
more information click here...
Connecting
the Dots By Kay Martin, MSW Management, July/August 2007
"Recycling is essentially a supply-side strategy that sends “materials
looking for industries.” The emerging bioenergy platform, in contrast,
creates a demand-pull in the marketplace, and sends “industries looking
for materials.”
S.V.
Landfill has chance to spin gold out of trash By Kay
Martin July 16, 2006
"Perhaps the factor that should weigh heaviest in decisions to
expand the Simi Valley Landfill, however, is the emergence of new
"bioenergy" industries that can convert about 80 percent of
the materials currently going to landfills into environmentally
beneficial products..."
"For as long as civilizations have generated solid wastes, the
accepted disposal method has primarily been landfilling. This has
continued despite great advancements in technology, as well as
environmental impacts to our air and water created by many landfills used
for municipal solid waste."
David Roberti, President of the BioEnergy Producers Association,
to speak at the Solid
Waste Association of North America (SWANA) Regional Symposium, May 18,
2005, along with the Chair of the Integrated Waste Management Board
(CIWMB), Rosario Marin, and Rosalie Mule', board member and Permitting and
Enforcement Chair.
April 13, 2005: EERE's newsletter, the EERE
Network News, covers national and international energy efficiency and
renewable energy news and events, as well as new EERE Web sites and energy
facts.
January 14, 2005: California’s biobased industries are
uniting under the banner of a BioEnergy Producers Association intended
to advance the development and commercialization of sustainable,
environmentally preferable industries that produce power, fuels, and
chemicals from agricultural, forestry, and urban sources of biomass and
plastic wastes. (Click
here for the full text...)
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