The scientists are concerned that: carbon emissions will increase, that Australian forests, being some of the most carbon dense in the world, will be logged because of the incentive to call burning them renewable and thereby not permit the maximum uptake of dangerous Co2 to be sequestered as would occur if these forests were not logged. They labour to explain that burning wood biomass is a dirty polluting activity that endangers public health, that incentives to burn forests will detract from funds to truly clean renewable energies like wind and solar, that Australians basically don’t want their forests burnt for power ‘ Major electricity retailers and the National GreenPower group have already rejected native forest biomass power’.
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