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A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, the BBC has found. (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/climate
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[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

this is disgusting. cutting down old growth trees to burn in a power plant is treated as emission free and therefore entitles this company to billions in subsidies. and they're British! fuck right off there bud I'm using those trees to fuckin breathe

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Burning wood to make electricity is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's not that dumb because it can be a somewhat "closed system" for carbon capture. You grow trees that capture carbon, you burn them, releasing their carbon and you replace them with new trees and so on. Obviously it creates other problems like monoculture and such but as a non fossil "low carbon" energy source it could be locally interesting if you have space and water to spare.

[–] Sizzler 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are burning ancient woodland. Areas of trees that have never been cut down. We're losing them and need to stop.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well yeah that situation is definitely bad obviously. I just argued on the point of burning wood for electricity.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not aware of any water to spare anywhere.