Friday May. 25, 2012
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New biomass facility to be built in Columbia Falls
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By Craig moore on 02-09-12
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Look at the levelized cost for biomass versus other energy sources.  How is biomass a good thing
for rate payers?  http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/images/table_1-lg.jpg
By Craig moore on 02-09-12
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Also, when the U of M looked at biomass they turned thumbs down:
http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-scraps-biomass-heating-plant-apologizes-for-eco-terrorism-remark/article_8862e060-1d29-11e1-b5f9-0019bb2963f4.html

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The University of Montana announced Friday that it will suspend indefinitely plans to build a
woody biomass heating plant on campus and publicly apologized for a top university
administrator’s derogatory comment about critics of the project.

UM President Royce Engstrom cited financial viability, fuel supply, increased pollution and the
deteriorating discourse surrounding the $16 million heating project as reasons for scrapping
plans to build an industrial-sized biomass gasification system in the foreseeable future.

Friday’s news conference marked the end to the university’s yearlong effort to reduce its carbon
footprint by switching from natural gas, a fossil fuel, to heat its buildings to woody biomass,
a renewable resource.
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