Forests as Energy or Fuel

Why is the WA state government acceding to Forest Products Commission Plan to double native forest logging by up to 50% for such uses as firewood, woodchips and biomass burning?

AFCA finds it interesting that the FPC want to increase jarrah logging by possibly 100,000 cu metres, an increase of 50%, as well as increasing logging of marri and karri. It says it wants these increases ‘dependent’ on contracts. In 2016 it admitted that jarrah could be great for emerging new markets in Japan as Japan substitutes ‘biomass’ for nuclear …

WA Foresters seek to develop markets to use timber, especially Jarrah, as biomass energy feedstock

Forest Industry Advisory Council Chair (FIAC), Liberal Senator Anne Ruston talks about burning and or exporting timber as fuel for energy production would make forestry sustainable into the future and how ‘foresters would seek to develop markets for timber and biomass products to be used as renewable energy resources’ at the 2016 annual FIAC meeting which also discussed Japan as …