On: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests i...

[kennywinker]

Sounds to me like subsidizing old growth logging. More of those trees would have stayed in the ground if someone wasn’t buying 11% of the logs they cut to burn.

[xyzzyz → kennywinker]

Wood pellet is around 4 times cheaper than construction lumber per pound. That means that these 11% of the logs capture less than 5% of the revenue of the entire operation.

[kennywinker → xyzzyz]

Assuming elastic demand, that’s 5% less logs cut. Why is the UK funding 5% of an old growth logging in BC as “sustainable energy”?