Why not burn UK hardwoods? Maybe there are none left.
Burning hardwood on a massive scale to save the environment. Only the UK government, the BBC (sorry if I repeat myself) and UK/EU environmentalists could come up with something that stupid.
Cancel that last statement. I am sure a progressive or snowflake somewhere in the US (Gov. Moonbeam in Kalifornia?) could beat that.
Greenies are up in arms over another environmental scandal of their own making. A TV documentary, shown on Britain’s left-wing Channel 4, has been shocked to discover that old hardwood forests in the U.S. are being chopped down, exported to the UK and burned for what is laughably being billed as “green” energy.
According to the Ecologist:
Huge areas of hardwood forest in the state of Virginia are being chainsawed to create ‘biomass’ energy in Britain as the government attempts to reach targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in efforts to tackle climate change, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has found.
A key part of government efforts to hit its green energy targets is to switch from generating electricity from burning coal to burning wood – or so-called biomass. It’s a policy that is costing taxpayers more than £700 million per year through a levy on their electricity bills.
Well fancy that. Enviroloons caught once again killing the planet in order to save it.
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