Renewable Technologies and Environmental Injustice: Subsidizing Bioenergy, Promoting Inequity

Autor:	Whitney C. Preisser, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Natural resource economics Bioenergy business.industry Ecology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Geography Planning and Development Biomass Renewable technologies Subsidy Business Management Monitoring Policy and Law Injustice Renewable energy
Zdroj:	Environmental Justice. 6:88-93
ISSN:	1937-5174 1939-4071
Popis:	Dozens of developed countries massively subsidize biomass-crop growing/incineration, touting it as clean, renewable, and helping to alleviate climate change. Using a case study of a contemporary, state-of-the-art facility to incinerate Miscanthus-giganteus biomass, this article shows that bioenergy projects are (1) not clean, given overwhelming particulate and nitrogen-oxide releases; (2) disproportionately sited in EIJ situations, near communities of color, tribal communities, or low-income communities who are harmed both medically and economically; (3) likely to impose ecological and environmental burdens on EIJ communities because of possible biomass-crop invasiveness; and (4) misrepresented by biomass promoters who take advantage of lucrative, taxpayer-funded federal and state biomass subsidies.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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