Scientists Sound Biomass Alarm; Is Copenhagen Listening?
"[Harvesting] existing forests for electricity adds net carbon to the air. That remains true even if limited harvest rates leave the carbon stocks of regrowing forests unchanged, because those stocks would otherwise increase and contribute to the terrestrial carbon sink," wrote the authors in Science. "If bioenergy crops displace forest or grassland, the carbon released from soils and vegetation, plus lost future sequestration, generates carbon debt, which ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Different government bodies differ in how they treat burning biomass. The federal plan look like a politics and money problem of enabling big corporate energy polluters.