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Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass
2016-07-12 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In northern New York state, logger Greg Hemmerich and his crew are clearing out an old pasture at the edge of a forest. "There's a lot of balsam, lot of spruce, thorn apple trees," Hemmerich says. "Ninety percent of this lot is low-grade wood." In other words, it's no good for furniture or paper or sawmills. But he'll make $80,000 to run the wood through a chipper and truck the chips to a nearby biomass plant. "Everybody said that green power was supposed to be the wave of the future," Hemmerich...
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