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Forests as an economic engine, forest carbon at the Silviculture Institute, using the heat from a biomass power plant, and workfoce / demographic challenges - what we've been up to at INRS https://lnkd.in/e2kFHJdc

This new funding investment offers a crucial tool to stimulate open markets for biomass. Biomass methods and markets are a critical need to solution to resolve wildifire and climate risk.

#biomass #enviva #woodpellets #UK #biomassenergy #bankruptcy #deforestation #coal #investing Biomass Bankruptcy with Fallout I have posted intense reporting in the ENVIVA Bankruptcy and its insufficient facilities to supply the UK with wood pellet (biomass) which is burned for fuel in former coal plants. Though Chapter 11 has been filed, informer insiders say it is impossible to overcome. There is included also a great scripted video explaining ENVIVA's activities. I would like to inject professional eye-witness changes in parts of North Carolina's forested areas which have existed long-known by old timers as U.S. Forestry Department errors, forced by early industrial exploitation of mainly magnificent hardwoods and evergreens plus pine. It is botanical fact that in Florida, by 1940 all original pine trees had been felled and what was growing was replanted pines. I think by the apparent age of the first Forest Service replanted trees, similar felling in North Carolina may also have been completed by 1940 as part of the same corporation. Though biomass as burned fuel is self-defeating, the felling of these artificial pine plantations should be done, but by State or County environmental permit requiring a logical mitigation plan. The plantings were made in too-narrow rows, line by line, so that the treetops eventually shaded any branch growth. They are skinny stick forests with spindly tops and no branches. That is not a pine tree. The Forest Service info was given me by a retired gentleman who had spent his career in the Service. He and his fellows hated what they had been told to do- it disagreed with their knowledge and forestry experience.

Zomg its finally happening! Besides being more accurate overall for carbon estimation, this has implications for American Improved Forest Management carbon projects. Today, those projects use the old map divisions (called supersections) to decide what the project's baseline should be. The problem is that those supersections are super-broad. It's led to projects being placed in advantageous portions of their section and getting too many credits. CarbonPlan did an excellent write-up of this problem: https://lnkd.in/gDNs2nK9 BUUUUUT, presumably IFM protocols will switch to these new models/map divisions, which are much more precisely bounded to ecosystems. That would cut-down on people placing projects at the edges of their section and getting too many credits.

New tree volume, biomass, and carbon equations developed by the USDA Forest Service require you to know which ecological division you're working in. Here's some #Rstats code to extract those values. https://lnkd.in/ekbZhDtm #ForestCarbon #ForestAnalytics

Canadian wood pellet production is expected to see a decline of 6% this year, with exports down 14%, according to a report by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Information Network. This decrease is attributed to the closure of pellet mills, reduction in allowable cut and a high-activity wildfire season. Furthermore, the decline in exports is expected to result from reduced production coupled with diminished demand from South Korea and the U.K. for Canadian wood pellets. Despite this, imports are expected to increase slightly due to a growth in domestic demand. The report indicates that Canada had 45 wood pellet plants as of 2023, with a combined 4.72 million metric tons of capacity. Capacity use for 2023 was estimated at 73.1 percent, up from 72.2 percent the previous year and 72.1 percent in 2021. Read more about the report here: https://lnkd.in/g8Ywfdfx Erin Voegele Biomass Magazine Lee Ann Nicol Rose Braden Forest Business Network LLC Shelby Snelson Melissa Sklenar Arnie Didier International Mass Timber Conference International Mass Timber Report #forestproud #masstimberreport #climatechange #carbonneutrality #carbondrawdown #sustainability #masstimber #crosslaminatedtimber #masstimberbuildings #sustainableforestry #offsiteconstruction #decarbonizingbuildings #modularconstruction #embodidedcarbon #circulareconomy #builtenviroment #masstimberconference #IMTC2024 #masstimberinstaller #biophilia #massply #massplypanels #VLT #veneerlaminatedtimber #thefutureiswood #laminatedveneerlumber #masstimberconference #dowelllaminated #sustainableforestry #engineeredwood #massply #parallellaminatedtimber 

The report is out! 📢 📢 What is biomass, and is it the answer to Europe's net zero ambitions? How does biomass for bioenergy stack up against its integral roles in agriculture, forestry, and conservation, on a densely populated continent where fertile land comes at a premium? 🌍 The result of a long-running collaboration between the European Environment Agency and Ramboll Management Consulting, this report pieces together the "biomass puzzle", looking at how biomass can help us reach our climate and environmental objectives, and how climate change might affect the EU's biomass production in agriculture and forest sectors. We also discuss key synergies and trade-offs in the use of biomass for different policy objectives of the #eugreendeal. #biomass #conservation #climatechange #netzero Lara Alvarez https://lnkd.in/gVFhqXVa

These stories and investigations into Drax are not going away. Our CEO Ian Jones commented: "It's a public service utility run by a private company and supported by taxpayers’ money. "Drax needs to be implored and instructed like all heavy industry is to rapidly increase its substitution rate away from virgin biomass and towards other alternative fuels. "A ten per cent substitution rate would enable Drax to sure up its sourcing of sustainable wood and demonstrate its commitment to ensuring it doesn't fall foul of these ongoing investigations. "If the considerable resource at Drax worked with homegrown pellet and alternative fuel manufacturers, a solution could be readily found and implemented rapidly. "It's time for the government and relevant agencies to step in and make this happen. "As Labour has rolled back on its £28bn commitment to green initiatives, I would suggest this would be a low-cost quick win - the infrastructure exists, now it's time to leverage it." Christine Wilson Michael Yannakoyorgos #biomass #energy #waste https://lnkd.in/ewCsXe4K