Bio Fuel Insanity: Canadian wood used to power UK

how stupid can you get ?

Wow.

Would be a good way to dispose of all these dead Pine trees here in BC.

wtf ? they are using wood to make power ?? that's so 1850...

Biomass, technically, which I think can use all forms of organic matter to use as fuel. Of course, I do believe they were intending for waste like sawdust, spoiled food, among other things.

Of course, they can just burn perfectly usable trees. Thanks for helping the Canadian logging industry!

With the rise in protectionism Canada has been needing another export market. Not that protectionism is necessarily bad

Note that protectionism is necessarily bad

has anyone thought of the cost of the energy to transport that shit to the UK????????????? I cannot believe the idiocy - God help us Let alone the massive amount of fuel it would take for a ship to haul the stuff across the atlantic, you could heat half of england for the cost of the fuel. This is beyond unbelievable, todays leaders and decision makers are imbiciles and we are all on the road with them to oblivion.

Yes they thought of it. The UK is forced to import fuel, just like most of the world. Sure they could heat half of England for the cost of the fuel, but if they have nothing to MAKE the heat in the first case it does no good.

Canada is one of the VERY few countries in the world that could in theory be completely self sufficient. We can feed ourselves, we can supply all the raw materials we need to make almost anything and we have enough freshwater. We currently produce just a little more oil a day than we use (but we export 90% of it). England on the other hand would not be able to be self sufficient.

The decision is more likely based on trying to be less dependent on Russian and Middle Eastern oil

No doubt to me that Canada is and could be totally self sufficient. To bad we've been conditioned and raised to believe that Canada is some sort of store house of raw material for the first world to pillage indefinitely. I cannot imagine the trillions in raw materials that we have exported for pennies in real return - if it were not so we would not have 600 billion or so of national debt - that is just preposterous. We have had such a collection of toadies for leaders - minus the socialist Trudeau I suppose in recent memory - who at least stood up for us to some degree, that we are powerless to effect change. The die was cast long ago.

Burn your freaking garbage! Geeesh!!

They can attach scrubbers to the smoke stacks and burn most anything they want to produce electricity or run a high pressure boiler or whatevver. It comes down to the ultimate cost of attaching those scrubbers that is prohibitive. I wish Rev. Al Gore would make himself into a scrubber and eat emissions from a sulphur plant.