Posts Tagged ‘ global warming ’

Weyerhaeuser and Mitsubishi teaming up

February 2, 2010
By Di Mettler
Weyerhaeuser and Mitsubishi teaming up

The Environmental Leader reported today that Mitsubishi and Weyerhaeuser are teaming up as biomass partners. The two companies would like to collaborate and build bio-pellet production facilities in the U.S. (Reuters). Commercial Scale bio-pellet Facility In a joint statement, the companies said they were looking into the feasibility of building a commercial-scale bio-pellet facility...
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Global Warming May Bring More Trees to Northwest

October 21, 2009
By Di Mettler
Global Warming May Bring More Trees to Northwest

An interesting study came out of Science Daily this week. It was conducted at Oregon State University (OSU), and looked at how global warming might affect Northwest forests. The OSUE study predicts that over the next century, global warming will spur growth in higher-elevation forests. Unfortunately, it also speculated timber growth would drop in...
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