Forests Shouldn't Be Fuel Source
Behind closed doors, the biomass energy and timber industries have been lobbying Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, legislators such as Senator Vicki Walker, and Oregon members of Congress. The lobbyists' aim is to assure policymakers that all of Oregon's public forests (nearly 17 million acres) need to be thinned or logged to reduce the frequency and severity of forest fires, while at the same time promoting the fringe benefit of extracting forest biomass as a green and renewable energy source.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031207EC.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031207EC.shtml
rudkla - 13. Mär, 10:44
