Dogwood supporter Alan White’s Letter to the Editor of the Charlotte Observer on the export of NC wetland wood turned to pellets for Europe to burn for electricity.
Danna Smith’s article from “European Voice” on the troubling land degradation history in the Southern US and the dangers of biomass.
Guest blog post from By Dr. Robert J. Cabin, Professor of Ecology, Brevard College on the potentially disastrous effects of wood pellet exports to Europe on our valuable Southern US wetland forests.
Maps are the latest in a mounting body of evidence proving the damaging environmental impacts of mass-scale biomass energy production.
Recent scientific studies warn that burning trees for electricity might actually increase CO2 emissions. In addition, new evidence has emerged documenting that current European demand for wood as fuel is destroying some of the world’s most precious and vulnerable ecosystems – wetland forests in the Southern US.
