Europe’s Burning Trees from the US, Calling It Renewable Energy
Wood pellets from trees in the southeast United States forests are shipped to Europe to burn for electricity.
National Geographic warns that it could “undermine progress” in meeting climate change. The UK is one of the world’s largest wood pellets consumers, mostly from the US.
Germany, Japan, and South Korea also import wood pellets.
That sounds unsustainable.
The so-called infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill promote the use of biomass energy, but more than 100 scientists are encouraging President Joe Biden to remove these provisions.
But Biden’s an idiot.
It’s easier to use old coal facilities to create wood pellets.
National Geographic writes, “Many old-growth forests are falling under the saw in the South East region of the United States to burn in the wood pellet stoves in the UK, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. This is a disaster of epic proportions.”
The industry is rising rapidly. A growing number of scientists state that wood pellets are far from green since carbon dioxide released from burning pellets isn’t completely absorbed by replanted trees for many decades — if ever.
ESG police don’t care about the destruction of forests in the US.
Proponents say biomass creates jobs and economic renewal, and forestland owners grow 40% more trees in the forests.
They claim it displaces coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels – keeping that carbon in the ground. They have no real evidence that this is the case.
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I drive the I-95 corridor from NY to Florida at least twice a year. I can attest to the destruction of large swaths of land mostly down south. A few year’s ago there was a report on how the forests in the south and somewhere in New England and I’m sure other places in-between, we’re being destroyed all in the name of making pellets for the wood burning stoves. Now I find that we’re shipping the wood off to Europe!! This is an environmental disaster!
Here in the Pine Belt everyone clears out brush and Chips it into Pellets. They also chop down a tree or two for the stove or fireplace each Winter.
Michael Moire produced a controversial documentary titled, Planet of the Humans, which can still be found on you tube. It covers the myths about solar and wind. But above all else, they talk about how our forests are being destroyed to produce he wood pellets. All in the name of sustainability. Needless to say, Moore and the cast were a but taken back by what they discovered.
Here in the Pine Belt, people own Acreage. People here strive to be independent and self sustaining. Taking a tree or two is nothing. Most of the trees we harvest for fire wood are dead or dying. I’m about to take down one struck by Lightening. We basically harvest wood that starts forest fires to keep the forest healthy.
It’s the Liberals in the Cities who can’t survive without Petroleum because they refuse to go Nuclear and don’t have Acreage. The Government could easily stop the carnage of Forest. All they have to do is put a high export tax on raw wood products.