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Mistress Rose
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I agree with Ty Gwyn on that. It makes very little sense to import huge amounts of biomass from the US, but it has skewed the timber industry badly these days.
The plus is that at least this stuff is coming in in pellet form. The original idea was that it came in as chips or whole wood for chipping, but the Forestry Commission were very concerned that would import all sorts of pests and diseases from the US.
Currently, the biomass market is paying silly prices for timber for use in power stations and this is good if you are in the wholesale timber market, but not so good if you are a small scale firewood seller. So far, we have been all right, but if that plus the new legislation that says we not only have to sell only wood with less than 20% moisture content (buyer can then soak it in rain, water butt etc. to their own taste) and pay for the privilege of proving it is dry by joining a 'proof' scheme, we may have to pull out of it. This will upset out customers, but if it is not economic we can't supply.
As the infernal combustion engine is the main use of fossil fuels and cause of pollution, as also shown by the lockdown, this seems a step in the right direction, but rather missing the elephant in the room. |
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