Opinion: “[The government is] threatening to destroy an industry that adds economic value”

Traverse City Light & Power board Chairman Mike Coco: “We’ve listened to many of our ratepayers tell us they don’t know enough about biomass and some have suggested they are more comfortable with natural gas as a power generation resource, even though natural gas is not a renewable energy.”

Alastair Kerr, director general of the UK’s Wood Panel Industries Federation: “The Government is putting too great an emphasis on large scale wood-fired electricity and, by subsidising generators’ ability to pay for fuel, they are threatening to destroy an industry that adds economic value and brings environmental benefit through carbon storage.”

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