If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is? https://hackaday.com/2024/09/05/if-wood-isnt-the-biomass-answer-what-is/ #greenenergy #woodpellets #Featured #Interest #biomass #News
#WoodPellets
Burning wood pellets to produce electricity is being done under the belief it's carbon neutral. But research shows this approach can boost greenhouse-gas emissions and threaten the health of local communities #emissions #woodpellets #deforestation https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02676-z
How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet — and people
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02676-z #GreenEnergy #WoodPellets #carbonneutral #greenhousegas #woodbioenergy #worse
Devastating Community Health Study on #Drax #WoodPellet Plant
Written by Naya Black, August 7th, 2024
"#GlosterMississippi is a small, rural, mostly Black community in Amite County, Mississippi. It spans 1.8 square miles with around 900 residents. Residents are facing the harsh reality of a median income below $15,000 in 2021.
Introduction of the #AmiteBioEnergy Pellet Plant
"In 2015, Amite BioEnergy, a part of the UK’s #DraxGroup, started making #WoodPellets pellets in Gloster. Industry markets wood pellets as #ecofriendly . They get big subsidies from the #EU to supposedly fight climate change. Drax has a permit to emit up to 25 tons of harmful #AirPollutants and 249 tons of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) per year. But since 2016, Drax has consistently gone over these limits. Drax even paid a $2.5 million fine for it.
What Types of Pollutants Do Wood Pellet Plants Produce?
"#WoodPelletPlants emit many #AirPollutants , including:
nitrogen oxides (#NOx)
#GreenhouseGas like carbon dioxide, methane, and sulfur dioxide
volatile organic compounds (#VOCs)
particulate matter (#PM) 2.5
"Sleep is critical to health, so 24/7 #NoisePollution is also a concern.
What Are the Short-term Effects of This Air Pollution?
"These air pollutants are harmful to residents breathing them in. They can cause:
coughing
trouble breathing
skin rashes
severe allergic reactions
What Are the Long-term Effects of This Air Pollution?
"The long-term effects of air pollution are #chronic. They’re also much worse than the short-term effects. Some are even life-threatening. Added to the short-term effects, the long-term effects can be:
shortness of breath
nausea
headaches
cardiovascular disease
lung disease
heart attack
stroke"
Read more:
https://dogwoodalliance.org/2024/08/devastating-community-health-study-on-drax-wood-pellet-plant/
#EnvironmentalRacism #AirPollution #ProfitOverPeople
#CorporateColonialism
#SaveCanadianForests #SaveUKForests #SaveCaliforniaForests #SaveTheForest
#OldGrowthForests #Greenwashing #EnvironmentalActivism
#BigForest #DraxPowerStation
Greenwashing energy company Drax is in the news again, this time for violating Louisiana's permitted limits for hazardous air pollutants.
Not only does Drax cut down Canada's old growth forests, it pollutes America too. The new Labour government in the UK should stop using our public money to subsidise this corporate welfare cheat.
#Drax #AirPollution #Louisiana #WoodPellets #Greenwashing #Forests #CleanAirAct #Environment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-louisiana-british-mississippi-new-orleans-b2595275.html
#Fash much, #UK? #Preemptive arrests of #ClimateActivists, but it's perfectly fine to be a #FarRight #AntiImmigrant #Fascist?
Mass pre-emptive arrest of #ReclaimThePower #activists in #Yorkshire
Aug 8, 2024
22 held as police foil plot to bring #CompostToilets and #wheelchair track to #Drax #ClimateCamp
"UPDATE 13.30: the climate camp has now been cancelled
"Officers from the Metropolitan police this morning led local forces in a raid on Bentley Urban Farm in Doncaster, said eye witnesses. They arrested twenty two activists, who were preparing to transport infrastructure, sanitation and accessibility equipment to the upcoming climate camp at Drax power station.
"Crashing sounds were heard from outside the site as vehicles and equipment were impounded. The detainees were taken to York police station, where they are being held for conspiracy charges: in this case, to interfere with key national infrastructure at Drax Power Station in Selby between 8 and 13 August. Media repeated the police’s claim they are “not against protest but against crime”.
"This morning’s pre-emptive arrests, ahead of a peaceful protest, contrast sharply with the State’s failure to foil recent far right violence, said Reclaim the Power. 'Black and Brown communities are under attack with fire and bricks and the police have made the unfathomable decision to divert resources away from those communities to arrest 22 people taking equipment to make a peaceful climate protest safe and accessible', said the group in a statement."
#UKPol #SilencingDissent #ClimateProtest #Activism #OldGrowthForest #WoodPellets #SaveTheForest
Large scale wood pellet production in the US is hurting poor and minority families. Same old story: Those without a voice are trampled upon by those who have or can pay for one.
Drax owns seven #PelletMills in #BritishColumbia after acquiring BC’s largest #WoodPellets producer, #PinnacleRenewableEnergy Inc in 2021.
This analysis focuses on north central BC, where all material feeding #Drax’s pellet mills originates from #PrimaryForest, whether it arrives directly from #logging operations or byproduct from sawmills. Majority of commercial logging taking place in BC is of #OldGrowth #forests.
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2024/drax-bc-pellets-investigation/
#BritishColumbia #forestry practices came under #InternationalScrutiny after a #BBC #documentary highlighted #WoodPellets being burned for power in the #UK.
The documentary was not broadcast in #Canada. Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in #UnitedKingdom is the #Drax Power Station in #England.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10525850/bc-forestry-practices-international-scrutiny/amp/
#BCpoli #BCNDP #Deforestation #ecocide #BCgovernment #BCNDPlies #SaveOldGrowth #environmental #Pollution #CDNpoli
Canada Urged to Boost Regulation, Not Subsidies to Avoid UK’s Bioenergy Blunder #Canada #woodpellets #biofuels #deforestation #emissions https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-urged-to-boost-regulation-not-subsidies-to-avoid-uks-bioenergy-blunder/
New report claims whole logs used for B.C. wood pellet production
A new report from the says Japan has become a huge market for wood pellets from B.C. and claims many of those pellets are made from whole logs and not scrap wood.
#globalnews #Economy #Environment #forestry #WoodPellets
https://globalnews.ca/news/10448590/wood-pellet-report-whole-logs/
New report claims whole logs used for B.C. wood pellet production
A new report from the says Japan has become a huge market for wood pellets from B.C. and claims many of those pellets are made from whole logs and not scrap wood.
#globalnews #Economy #Environment #forestry #WoodPellets
https://globalnews.ca/news/10448590/wood-pellet-report-whole-logs/
New report claims whole logs used for B.C. wood pellet production
A new report from the says Japan has become a huge market for wood pellets from B.C. and claims many of those pellets are made from whole logs and not scrap wood.
#globalnews #Economy #Environment #forestry #WoodPellets
https://globalnews.ca/news/10448590/wood-pellet-report-whole-logs/
Second week and no accidents elsewhere by the Feline Overlords, now changing with just a dash of the old litter on top of two of the three litter trays and all three litter trays being used. I’m close to being able to paraphrase Professor Henry Higgins! #Cats #CatLitter #WoodPellets
Operation Transition is going well so far. Hoping I don’t jinx it all but even the 13 year old isn’t objecting to the wood pellets with a light sprinkling of the Catsan Natural litter they are used to! The large metal scoop is a godsend and another win for the late meanderings online trying to improve and also reduce costs of this daily essential! #Cats #CatLitter #WoodPellets
"#Vietnam has supplied #WoodPellets to Japan and South Korea in its quest to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through an increase in biomass energy production. However, the origins of these pellets are questionable, and some are even linked to deforestation.
From 2013 to 2022, the export volume of Vietnamese pellets went up 28 times,"
Wood pellets ash – radioactive contamination and cesium 137 measured values
"Two of these accidents – the Kyshtim accident in the Urals in the USSR (now the Russian Federation) in 1957 and the #Chernobyl accident in the USSR (now Ukraine) in 1986 – resulted in significant contamination of thousands of square kilometers of forest land with radionuclide mixtures, including long-lived fission products such as Cs 137 and Sr 90. Measurements and modeling of forest ecosystems after both accidents have shown that after initial contamination, the activity concentration of long-lived radionuclides in wood gradually increases over one to two decades and slowly decreases over the following decades. The longevity of contamination is due to the slow migration and persistent bioavailability of radionuclides in the forest soil profile, leading to long-term transfer into wood through the tree root system.
The transfer of cesium-137 from the soil into the wood of trees is relatively low. Wood from Germany is radiobiological harmless to humans. In the #ashes, however, the radiocesium activity can be up to 100 times higher than in wood."
#WoodPellets #WoodBurning #NoNewNukes #NoNukes #Fukushima #AtomkraftNeinDanke #AntiAtom
Read more: https://www.umweltanalysen.com/en/radioactivity/wood-pellets-ash/
Australia rules out some #biomass for energy as Europe debates changes in its policy supporting #woodpellets. The industry says pellets are needed to meet climate goals and safeguards are working. #WFAE https://www.wfae.org/energy-environment/2023-02-13/australia-rules-out-wood-pellets-for-energy-as-europe-debates-changes
#MendocinoCounty 🔥💨 Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the #Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic. #woodpellets
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835692.php
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