UK Biomass Strategy Won’t Stop Destruction Of North American Forests
The UK government’s new Biomass Strategy won’t do much to stop the ongoing flow of wood from North American, and European, forests to UK power stations.There has been over a year of waiting for the UK government’s new Biomass Strategy. While we’ve waited, forests have been cut, shipped across the Atlantic, and burned — in the millions of tonnes.
But the Strategy does hint at growing UK government wariness of this industry by signalling that ideally the UK would shift away from burning wood pellets. After all, it’s an industry that has been beset by scandal and controversy since the start of this year:Drax Cutting down trees from forests dents their absorption and storage of carbon for decades to come. Even in countries where forests are recovering — which can mask these impacts — it means forests store less carbon than they would have done. The atmosphere experiences this as a climate impact, even if the numbers are fiddled on paper to look good.There is no new funding in the Strategy for bioenergy with or without carbon capture and storage.
The government’s plans are fairly conservative about the area of energy crops that will be grown in the UK – they see much lower amounts than the Climate Change Committee, for example. Instead they think the UK will remain much more dependent on imports of biomass. And this is very likely to mean ongoing imports of millions of tonnes of wood from North American forests.
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