'Time to Twig' Masked Ball
Marylebone, London. Wed 18 Apr 2018
Campaigners hold pictures of a forest destroyed for wood chips and
some of its former residents
They met up just around the corner from the Landmark Hotel at Marylebone
Station
with a bike-hauled sound system
and soon began their move to the hotel entrance
where they stopped to one side for the protest
The 'It's Time to Twig' leaflet points out that using biomass destroys
forests and emits more CO2 than burning coal
The protesters held masks showing a cross-section of a felled tree
One of the protesters had been inside the Argus Biomass Conference
and had listened to some of the plans
being made by those attending who included pellet traders like Enviva,
the main suppliers for Drax power station
the so-called Sustainable Biomass Partnership which runs a misleading
certification scheme and government
ministers from the EU, Malaysia and elsewhere. The protesters had
a bag of wood pellets like those used at Drax
which burns more wood each year then the UK can produce, mostly from
the US Southern states where there is
a great deal of forest destruction and environmental damge.
But though biomass is a threat to the environment and contributes
to climate change - and reputable scientists
reject the claim that buring it is environmentally sound, biomass
attracts enviornmental subsidies.
Conferences like the Argus Biomass Conference outside which the protest
was taking place are a sign that the
industry is planning for a massive expansion - which would be disatrous
both for the areas where forests which
have taken centuries to grow will be cut to the ground, for the people
and animals and birds etc living there, and
for the world as a whole, as not only will increase the CO2 level
disastrously but felling forests also removes the
major mechanism for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and
replacing it by oxygen through
photosynthesis.
Using biomass from annual crops might make limited sense, but cutting
and burning forests is madness, and
giving environmental subsidies for its use compounds that madness. As the
poster states, Forests Aren't Fuel.
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