The vote in favour of the scheme by New Forest Energy was unanimous.
Like Blue Pillar, PowerSecure, a Wake Forest, NC-based veteran of the energy services industry, is also jockeying for position in the networked energy space.
As sustainable development finance remains a critical concern for African economies, the African Development Bank has invested in a suite of creative financing and support instruments, such as the Congo Basin Forest Fund, ClimDev-Africa Fund, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, African Water Facility, and Africa Carbon Support Program.
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But they can play an important role in providing communities with local, renewable sources of energy and, critically, livelihoods that offer a compelling alternative to forest destruction.
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The new energy development is "almost a spider web coming down to the forest, " said Nels Johnson of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which estimates the state could see thousands of miles of new pipelines over the next two decades.
Heatley, the ecologist, said that "not one" of the energy companies drilling in the area has a long-term restoration plan for sensitive deep-forest environments, and that permits usually require only minimal restoration, such as planting grasses.
That's debatable (you have to cut down more forest to grow them), but they indisputably are benefiting from the same leftist zeitgeist that propels the solar energy business.
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) issued regulations recently limiting ratepayer-funded subsidies known as renewable energy certificates (RECs) to only those biomass power plants which adhere to scientific standards for climate and forest impacts.
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