BC is subisidizing an industry dirtier than coal!

[Fancy]

Appreciate the information. I don't know enough about the industry.

[Glacier]

Aw, Pinnacle Renewable Energy. That's the company who built right next to a school in Lavington. The result of which is frequent air quality alerts because of all the particulate they produce. These pellets are then shipped half way around the world to heat homes and businesses in Europe, to which the European countries subsequently claim carbon credit for on the shaky ground that the pellets are “carbon neutral” and displace the burning of dirty coal or other non-renewable fossil fuels, which is complete bunk when you think about it. Now that the beetle epidemic is over, they're running out of wood waste to feed these plants, so it's only a matter of time before they do end up using non-waste pellets in these plants just to keep them in business. BTW, burning so called "waste" is not the only solution. There are a lot of competing value added products that complete for this same waste with far less of a carbon footprint.

[Snowbound]

https://www.volker-quaschning.de/datserv/CO2-spez/index_e.php

Burning wood releases more CO2 than coal, but it is considered renewable. The problem is that it takes 25-40 years to grow a poplar or softwood tree and about 5 minutes to burn whatever waste is left over after harvesting it (in a biomass power plant).

The CO2 will be released if it is left to rot on the forest floor also.

Really, it comes down to "sustainability" of the resource. Over-harvesting is the problem, as with other renewable industries like fishing, etc.