"Arbor Energy is, essentially, a poster child of the kind of biomass energy project California keeps saying it wants."
"California has billed Arbor - and the handful of other similarly aimed projects it's financed - as a win-win-win: wildfire mitigation, clean energy and carbon sequestration all in one."
"When you look at biomass facilities across California - and we've done Public Records Act requests to look at emissions, violations and exceedances ... the reality is that we're not in some kind of idealized pen-and-paper drawing of what the equipment does," said Shaye Wolf, climate science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "In the real world, there are just too many problems with failures and fau"
California aims to reduce wildfire risk on one million acres annually by thinning overgrown forests, producing an estimated ten million tons of wood waste each year. Arbor Energy proposed converting that waste into energy using a high-efficiency “vegetarian rocket engine” and then sequestering all produced carbon underground. The project won initial state financial backing for a pilot in Placer County but encountered permitting obstacles, opposition, and regulatory concerns and subsequently relocated plans to Louisiana. Opposition stems from a history of harmful biomass practices, community pollution concerns, and evidence that poorly run facilities can emit carbon instead of reducing it.
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