wood pellets: Save the planet, cut down trees

Wood pellets: Save the planet, cut down trees.

Pellet factories grow:    Soaring demand for this woody fuel has led to the construction of more than two dozen pellet factories in the Southeast in the past decade,

And  there are more pellet factories along  special port facilities in Virginia and Georgia where mountains of pellets are loaded onto Europe-bound freighters.

European officials promote the trade as part of the fight against climate change.

Burning “biomass” from trees instead of coal, they say, means fewer greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

But that claim is increasingly coming under challenge.

A number of independent experts and scientific studies — including a new analysis released Tuesday — are casting doubt on a key argument used to justify the cutting of Southern forests to make fuel.

In reality, these scientists say, Europe’s appetite for wood pellets could lead to more carbon pollution for decades to come, while also putting some of the East Coast’s most productive wildlife habitats at risk.

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