The global trend is seeing native forests cut down to be burnt in electricity furnaces and termed ‘renewable power’. This further damages climate, natural carbon stores and our forests and wildlife.
The global trend is seeing native forests cut down to be burnt in electricity furnaces and termed ‘renewable power’. This further damages climate, natural carbon stores and our forests and wildlife.
The end of the woodchipping era is near. In mid May VicForests announced that the Eden based woodchip giant SEFE will stop buying east Gippy woodchips and logs at the end of this year. Clearly they were in shock and can’t seem to put a positive spin on this – besides to say they at …
NSW parliament has approved the shovelling of native forests into furnaces to generate electricity. Even worse, it’ll be termed ‘renewable’! The North East Forest Alliance, said the motion that could have stopped forests being cut down and burnt was ‘shot down by the shooters and the christians’. Our focus now shifts to electricity retailers. This …
Electricity generation from biomass waste is more polluting and worse for the climate than coal, according to a new study by an environmental advocacy firm. The report, put together by the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) and delivered to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), concludes that biomass power plants emit more pollution than omparable …
Last week the annual International biomass industry conference was held in Orlando, Florida. Industry executives from around the world attended to learn about the latest technologies, discuss biomass “supply chains” and network together. This year’s event featured a special “pellet supply chain summit” where the topic of discussion was the rapidly escalating export of southeastern …
As part of that rotten Tassie forest agreement, last week $2.8 million was generously handed to a forest liquidating project run by Dorset Renewable Energies as part of the regional development package. This is a very dangerous foot-in-the-door for all our forests! And where are the green group signatories to the Tassie deal who so …
Hoorah—an environment group in the US has just succeeded in overturning the law that exempts the burning of forest trees or ‘biomass’ as pollution. The court decided “There is no statutory basis for exempting biogenic carbon dioxide”. This is a good move in the right direction—and must also put the wind up the forest burning/ethanol …
There is significant risk in establishing native forest-based bioenergy projects to substitute for Australia’s ailing woodchip export trade, including adverse climate impacts, according to a new report by environment group Markets For Change. The report, released to coincide with an industry conference in Melbourne called ‘Residues to Revenues’, questions the push to use forest wood …
Should burning forest waste count under the renewable energy target? Not when the forests serve us better while they’re in the ground, writes Senator Lee Rhiannon Woodchipping of Australia’s native forests continues across the country, despite feeble woodchip prices and shrinking markets. The industry is desperately looking for ways to extend its life by generating …
The Climate Change Authority recently recommended changing the rules so burning forests for electricity could be termed ‘renewable” (with all the associated financial help!), but the Gillard Government has just said no! Huge thanks to The Greens again. This has stymied the industry’s plans to have burning forests take place of woodchipping to keep the …
Great news! The Eden chipmill has scrapped their plans to turn forests into pellets to fire up electricity furnaces (to run the world’s TVs and air conditioners). The Eden export woodchip mill plan to convert our forests into fuel to burn for electricity has failed. Likewise its wind farm project and the pellet plant to …
