{"id":410,"date":"2010-10-14T23:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-10-14T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T06:06:03","slug":"europe%e2%80%99s-green-energy-sets-their-remaining-forests-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/europe%e2%80%99s-green-energy-sets-their-remaining-forests-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Green Energy Sets Their Remaining Forests on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Europe\u2019s Green Energy Portfolio Up in Smoke?<\/a><\/div>\n
In a story broken by IPS last fall, at least one million hectares of forest annually will be needed to feed the dozens of planned wood-fired power plants in Britain alone. The Netherlands is already burning one million tonnes of wood. Germany is up 23 million cubic meters (16.5 million tonnes) \u2013 mostly imported \u2013 and plans to double this figure by 2020, said the report, \u201cWood Based Bioenergy: The Green Lie\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s getting pretty scary,\u201d Ernsting, a report co-author, told IPS. There is already a huge problem of deforestation without bioenergy, said Anne Petermann, executive director of the Global Justice Ecology Project, an international environmental NGO based in the U.S. Deforestation has long been a dangerously intractable problem, eating up 13 to 16 million hectares every year and responsible for 20 percent of the global warming emissions that are destabilising the climate. \u201cCurrent deforestation is having serious impacts on forests and forest peoples around the world,\u201d Petermann said in a phone interview. The centrepiece of Europe\u2019s climate-change reduction strategy is the production of 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. That objective has become a classic \u201cgood idea gone wrong\u201d, said Petermann. She was in Brussels to tell members of the European Parliament their policies are killing forests and hurting indigenous and local forest peoples.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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