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I saw a documentary a while back related to the Netherlands, where they traced lots of these wood imports as coming from the US, mostly bought from private land
by rapnie 6y ago
I saw a documentary a while back related to the Netherlands, where they traced lots of these wood imports as coming from the US, mostly bought from private land owners cutting down pristine forest.
- catalogia 6y agoThe margins on that must be awful. A simple tax on imported wood would probably resolve the matter by rendering it commercially infeasible to import wood as fuel.
- rapnie 6y agoThere is also a bad influence of this within the country. As nature reserve organizations saw their budgets cut for many years, there is now a commercial incentive to cut some extra wood here and there. Even the government's own 'Staatsbosbeheer' is suspected (note: not proven) to be doing this.
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- rapnie 6y agoCoincidentally on TV today (program Beau). About wood pellets coming from North Carolina where large areas of forest are completely cut down. Enviva Biomass is one of the big producers driving things in NL. There's lotsa subsidies involved, and local governments like it, as it constitutes a transition from gas to an 'intermediary' fuel.