British Columbia has developed a growing market for wood pellets that are sold as renewable bioenergy for thermal power plants abroad, but the province’s largest producer is under fire for cutting down old-growth forests.
In response, Ms. Conroy said the province’s pellet industry gets most of its wood fibre from waste – sawdust and shavings, chips and harvest residuals – and that any trees that are harvested for pellets are not valuable enough to make solid wood products. “The rest is waste material collected from the forests which would otherwise be burned to reduce the risk of wildfires and disease,” the statement says.
Karen Price, an ecologist who served as an expert on the province’s Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel, said the wood pellet industry has transformed forestry in B.C., cutting old-growth forests that had previously been regarded as being at low risk.
Here we go again. The anti everything want everyone to live in a cave. No meat, no facts and speaking because it emits gases. Let's ban volcanic eruptions forest fires etc. Can't fix stupid.
burning trees = green energy. climate change logic at work
Most things in BC are a fraud.
Ottawa is promoting their expensive battery powered busses as “green and zero emissions” However, these busses has diesel fuel tanks for heating interior. Canada 🇨🇦 will call anything green.
Was it the media selling it?
Two thumbs up for this tragicomedy
Hope the pellets are not….
Guilty or innocent the Green's just want to keep pushing the forest industry out of BC. With lumber prices and logging costs, nobody is putting saw logs thru a pellet plant to sell for $250 a tonne or even less.
Ah another green lie. Who would have thought.
Bio Scam