Ontario’s decision to…

Ontario’s decision to streamline biomass electricity through the use of wood pellets is a dirty practice that is counter-intuitive to positive climate action. It takes 50-100 years for forests to regrow after being harvested, and to meet the foreseeable needs of this practice, we would not be able to function on mill by-product alone. Harvesting of trees and forests ultimately results in a release of CO2 into the atmosphere, and additionally, loss of valuable carbon sinks. To produce an equivalent amount of energy, these wood pellets would actually produce 1.5x more CO2 emissions than coal would. We have kicked coal to the curb, why should we opt for another, potentially more destructive, process?