Guest blog post from By Dr. Robert J. Cabin, Professor of Ecology, Brevard College on the potentially disastrous effects of wood pellet exports to Europe on our valuable Southern US wetland forests.
Maps are the latest in a mounting body of evidence proving the damaging environmental impacts of mass-scale biomass energy production.
Recent scientific studies warn that burning trees for electricity might actually increase CO2 emissions. In addition, new evidence has emerged documenting that current European demand for wood as fuel is destroying some of the world’s most precious and vulnerable ecosystems – wetland forests in the Southern US.
Over the years, Dogwood’s campaigns have been very successful at putting pressure on corporations and getting previously unthinkable results. But we knew that even with partners like NRDC and the support of over 70 organizations, we were going to need partners in Europe to take on European utility companies like DRAX and their US suppliers like Enviva.
Because Dogwood Alliance is solution-oriented and envisions a clean energy future using the power of wind, solar and conservation and efficiency, we have partnered with Geostellar, America’s first and largest online solar marketplace.
