Please join host, Angelique Mitchell, and guest, Pete Stewart, for Forest2Market's September 2011 Economic Outlook podcast as we discuss highlights from the September 2011 Economic Outlook publication.
Increasingly, renewable energy sources are coming under scrutiny. Ironically, the same activists responsible for the movement away from fossil fuels and toward renewables are now working to undermine planned renewable energy facilities. They are filing lawsuits to stop wind and ...
In August 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released an update (2011 BTSU) of the 2005 Billion Ton Study (2005 BTS). The purpose of the original study was to determine if agricultural and forest resources could displace 30 percent of ...
Last month, the U.S. Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) held its first annual conference in New Orleans. The meeting brought together more than 225 people from 11 countries, representing manufacturers, industrial buyers (EU utilities predominately), equipment manufacturers, consultants, private equity firms, ...
After a relatively quiet summer for bioenergy announcements, wood pellet expansion plans have begun to make the news again. Momentum began building mid-August in the Southeast and movement in the rest of the country has begun as well. In the South, the following companies announced expansion plants: ...
Since the 2008 Farm Bill was being debated in Washington, I've probably written a dozen stories about the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). This one may just be my last. Why? In September, the Farm Service Agency released a notice outlining how ...
Part Two of Sustainability: Easily Described, Tough to Measure - The measure of biodiversity should not be about a count, but rather about what counts. Measurement and value are two overarching themes in all sustainability discussions. In my last blog ...
