Desperate response of CEO Drax Will Gardiner @ddwg to @BBC Panorama “Green scandal exposed” shows great opportunism. But repeating the so-called 'sustainability credo' of energy industry does not make industrial tree burning ‘green’ or ‘clean’ (2-8)
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Under current Brussels incentives for biomass in the RED, many Member States fund their energy companies to cut down and burn forests for energy production. Total financing amounted more than €20 billion. But the ability of forests to fulfill their functions as..3
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Under current Brussels incentives for biomass in the RED, many Member States fund their energy companies to cut down and burn forests for energy production. Total financing amounted more than €20 billion. But the ability of forests to fulfill their functions as..3
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.. a carbon sink, purifier of #air and water, and hotspot for #biodiversity are chronically undermined, as a result. In several Member States, #forests have become #carbon emitters as a result of this policy. #Sweden showed a loss of 18% of carbon storage in 1 year
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.. a carbon sink, purifier of #air and water, and hotspot for #biodiversity are chronically undermined, as a result. In several Member States, #forests have become #carbon emitters as a result of this policy. #Sweden showed a loss of 18% of carbon storage in 1 year
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Wood burning is a traditional source of energy. Due to #war situation, EU will burn significant amounts of #wood this winter (apart from RED incentive). In this light, it makes even less sense to continue rewarding #energy companies, that make record profits in the..5
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Wood burning is a traditional source of energy. Due to #war situation, EU will burn significant amounts of #wood this winter (apart from RED incentive). In this light, it makes even less sense to continue rewarding #energy companies, that make record profits in the..5
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.. current market conditions, to burn millions of tons of #forest biomass every year. Moreover, biomass #subsidies only help to drive up wood prices. This only further undermines the ability of #EU #citizens to heat their homes at an affordable price..6
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.. current market conditions, to burn millions of tons of #forest biomass every year. Moreover, biomass #subsidies only help to drive up wood prices. This only further undermines the ability of #EU #citizens to heat their homes at an affordable price..6
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Against this background, the eruption of #megamarketing of #energy companies is understandable. But factually nothing more than a last and ultimate attempt to keep the guaranteed profits from #Brussels through the billions of subsidies for #biomass combustion.
Against this background, the eruption of #megamarketing of #energy companies is understandable. But factually nothing more than a last and ultimate attempt to keep the guaranteed profits from #Brussels through the billions of subsidies for #biomass combustion.
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