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Originally Posted by Azure
Considering the Biden Administration is offering a lot of funding for the wood pellet industry, I'd expect that number to grow substantially. Canada being the second largest exporter of wood pellets is a major part of the problem.
Also if you read into how these pellet burning companies operate you realize they are heavily subsidized and touted as 'green' by the government and that the same governments have setup the rules so that...
Gee, I wonder why its classified as being so 'green.'
Instead of burning it for fuel, wood waste should be primarily used for engineered wood products, an extremely fast growing industry in Canada & Europe, and then whatever waste is leftover for that process should be used to heat those facilities and power their equipment. There are many examples of companies across the world in that market doing exactly that.
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Alright, so a few pages back in this thread you argued that Canada's percentage of the total global emissions was so small that it wasn't an issue worth worrying about, but now you're suggesting the harvesting and burning of wood pellets is a massive issue that needs immediate solutions. I mean, the whole harvesting and shipping of the wood pellets would be part of Canada's emissions totals, right? Why is the carbon emissions of associated with wood burning pellets (a single industry) an issue but the entire carbon emissions (all industries) as produced by Canada is not an issue?
I'm confused. (I'm not saying we as a society shouldn't care about the issue, we 100% should. I'm questioning the logic at which you seem to come to these conclusions, which seem to be at odds with one another.)