Sentences with phrase «wood pellets shipped»

Now, after replacing coal in its boilers with wood pellets shipped from the U.S. South, the Drax Power Station in Britain claims to be the largest carbon - saving project in Europe.

But Drax's giant wood - burning boilers are fueled almost entirely by 6.5 million tons of wood pellets shipped annually across the Atlantic.

Not exact matches

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

To satisfy European Union (EU) demand, forests in the United States are turned into wood pellets and shipped overseas, to the tune of 7 million metric tons annually.

Enviva claims that it produces wood pellets only from low - grade wood resources such as chips, bark, sawdust by - products, treetops, branches, and other forestry debris remaining after the tree trunks from commercial forests have been shipped for construction material.

Recent investigation of the largest pellet producer in the US, Enviva, revealed that they were sourcing wood from remaining pockets of endangered Atlantic coastal forests and then shipping them across the Atlantic to burn with coal.

Well, admittedly, letting people in the tropics grow food does interfere with the plan to clear cut all the tropical forests to produce renewable energy in the form of wood pellets that can be shipped to the EU so Europe meets their Paris climate goals.

A U.S. timber processing plant that ships wood pellets to the Drax power station in Britain.

Which makes me a bit torn on this one: While biomass electric generation is certainly a good thing, and anything that gets us (the collective human we) away from burning coal is undeniably positive environmentally, it seems to me that there is a better solution than processing wood pellets in Florida and shipping them to the EU to generate power... Even if it appears from Green Circle's estimate of net energy gain comes out positive.

Recently opened by Green Circle Bio Energy, the 225 acre plant will manufacture wood pellets from Southern Yellow Pine and ship them via train to Panama City, from where they will be shipped to the EU.

The value of the wood shipped to a pellet plant typically represents between 10 percent and 30 percent of the timber tract's total value.