Bord na Móna ha criticato [Brazilian] importazione di cippato
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/1223/1487966-bord-na-mona/
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Bord na Móna ha criticato [Brazilian] importazione di cippato
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/1223/1487966-bord-na-mona/
di badger-biscuits
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Damn sexy Brazilian wood chips, coming here taking all our fires.
I don’t see the problem with this. They source most of the wood chips from Ireland, and whatever is too expensive or not the right type they source abroad. This is all for Edenderry power station, a small power station that used to run on turf. I suspect this is what most complainers are really mad about (though not the specific groups in this article), that the power station doesn’t run on turf anymore. Compare this to Drax, the largest power station in the UK which imports almost all it’s wood chips from the US.
There’s no real news here….
“When the remaining biomass required cannot be acquired locally due to volume and suitability constraints, it is supplemented with material sourced internationally as a result.”
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>We should not be bringing biomass from South America so we ourselves can feel virtuous in terms of reducing our carbon emissions. Our focus should be on energy efficiency and renewable energy and if there is a place for biomass material it should be sourced domestically as opposed to anywhere else.
>That’s not real green energy. Real green energy needs to be indigenous and sustainable and not depending on dragging material across the Atlantic by ship. So the whole thing is the most ungreen and unstainable form of energy and ‘greenwash’ is the only way to describe it
Seems like very reasonable comments.
Do we know the actual source of the wood chips? Be horrible if it’s felled trees from the Amazon.
Ah listen, this story came out just before Christmas where it was hoped it would get lost in the media, hold yer fire for another week at least. It does of course need to be addressed but the timing of this story means there’s something more to it….
Fuck me, are we burning imported parts of the rainforest in our sittings rooms so?
All of those saying it’s efficient and a non story, why not just convert all our existing power to this source?