Bioenergy
Bioenergy Updates
- A plea to stop Tiwi Islands land clearing - July 30, 2008
- Burning native forests for power - a lifeline to the woodchippers - July 16, 2008
- Burning Native Forests is NOT Renewable Energy - December 09, 2003 Biomass energy from native forests is a threat to the sustainability of Australia's native forests. The use of genuinely renewable energy such as wind and solar need to be encouraged if we are to save the world from climate chaos. Native forest bioenergy or "dead Koala power" is a step backwards on the road to a sustainable future.
In 2005, the Northern Territory Parks and Conservation Master Plan identified that all of the Tiwi’s contained conservation values of international significance for biodiversity. For this reason, the Tiwi’s are of immense conservation importance.
Native forest bioenergy: bad for climate change and bad for our forests. In response to diminishing global demand for native forest woodchips, Australia’s native forest logging industry is pushing a particularly destructive power generation option.
Bioenergy Info
- Burning Forests For Power? - September 28, 2003
In what is looming as the greatest threat to Australia's unprotected native forests, the draconian burning of forests in power plants is again a reality. New, ominous proposals are dawning around the country at a time when our forests and atmosphere can least afford it.
Bioenergy Media Releases
- Wilderness Society lobbies against Forestry Tasmania at major energy conference in Western Australia - December 05, 2006 At the Bioenergy Australia conference in Fremantle, where Forestry Tasmania is giving a presentation on proposals to burn native forests for electricity, The Wilderness Society is lobbying delegates on the devastating impacts such proposals would have.
- Review Committee fails on climate change but provides opportunity for the Federal Government to save Tasmania's forests from power furnaces - January 18, 2004 A review of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET), a policy intended to boost the amount of clean energy in our electricity supply, comprehensively failed to recommend a renewable energy target to the energy industry which would put Australia on a path towards international responsibility on climate change. The Review does however provide the Federal Government with the opportunity to stop the Tasmanian Government from burning its ancient forests for electricity generation.
- No Wood-Fired Power Stations for NSW - Environmentalists Celebrate - September 07, 2003 The Wilderness Society applauds the decision by Bob Carr to end the wood-fired power station proposals throughout the state.
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