This may be on interest to energy activists in WV.  WV Public Radio this morning interviewed Carl Irwin (he is with WVU's National Research Center for Coal and Energy) on an energy conference being held in Morgantown this week to promote renewable energy, and he talked extensively about co-firing wood with coal in power plants. 

Is that something we are for or against?

JBK 

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Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Sierra Club co-signed a letter in opposition to federal tax subsidies for biomass power facilities that burn trees
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Nice letter!  Please tell me you sent a copy of this to Senator Udall, who is a major supporter of biomass.  The letter didn't specify which Senator it was addressing.  Let me know what the distribution of this letter was.  

I will keep and use this letter during the legislative session here in CO when the inevitable biomass bill comes.

Warm regards, 

Joshua Ruschhaupt

Sierra Club Rocky Mountain Chapter Director

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Doris Cellarius <doris@cellarius.org> wrote:

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I apologize if you have already seen this but it is relevant to the issue of burning trees for energy that Joshua has asked about.

 

Hi all,

 

Here is another resource for forest protection work, and it is also relevant for climate activism. The Sierra Club and thirteen other environmental organizations (incl. Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and NRDC) have co-signed a letter in opposition to federal tax subsidies for biomass power facilities that burn trees or other forest material.  The letter has some very useful information in it, so I recommend it as a resource for Club activists working on forest and climate issues. In addition to highlighting the dangers to forests, the letter discusses the carbon emissions from biomass facilities, and also notes that subsidies for biomass pull limited federal funds away from supporting less environmentally damaging energy alternatives. The letter can be viewed at:

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/debunking_the_biomass_myth/pdfs/PTC_letter_w_signons_Oct_31.pdf

 

Best,

Douglas Bevington, Chair

National Forest Team

 

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