Paper companies eye another serving of black liquor tax benefits
Pulp mills may be getting back on the black liquor gravy train.
Paper and pulp makers, including a number of mills in southwest Alabama, collected $8 billion or more last year in federal cash and tax credits by doing what they've done for decades -- burning the carbon-rich leftovers from the pulp-making process to fuel their mills.
The liquid, known as black liquor, was declared eligible for alternative fuel tax credits if mill operators mixed in a little diesel fuel.
Biofuels Firms Buy Up African Land, Cause Deforestation, Food Output Loss
Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said.
Hubei Haman to Build the Country’s First Modern Forestry Sen
Central China’s largest sheet processing bases the “Hubei Modern Forestry Science and Technology Industrial Park of Forest Industry of Haman,” was formally established. This is the first modern forestry, forestry technology industry park, Hubei Province Forestry Bureau to actively promote the development of modern forestry industry, and create forestry development, technological innovation platform for yet another strategic move.
To create a 10 billion yuan Hezhou Forestry Industry
March 28, Hezhou Gui Sunda Plate Co., Ltd. produce 100,000 cubic meters of plywood project goes into operation. Same day, the annual output of 200,000 cubic meters particleboard project started. Hezhou leader said: “These two forestry production and processing projects started, marking the Hezhou forestry industry chain is becoming longer and longer, to build a foundation for billions of forest industry.”
Anhui Province Suzhou City forestry the first time five billion yuan of GDP
Year of the Tiger Spring comes early in 1000 the village is busy planting trees. When the spring again blowing Suzhou earth, people were happy to find that piece of the green throughout the city, look exceptionally beautiful.
Green Province Of Jiangsu Forestry Forestry Province Transfiguration
Forestry Bureau of Jiangsu Province has learned from the early 2003 provincial government proposed the building of “green Jiangsu” development strategy has been the rapid development of forestry industry in Jiangsu Province.
Key words: Forestry, Jiangsu province, Jiangsu province forestry
