Ted Strickland Wants To Make Ohio's Air Even Dirtier

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Ted Strickland Wants To Make Ohio's Air Even Dirtier
Ted Strickland believes in burning for Biomass. Industry groups are pushing hard to get large-scale tree and garbage incineration into a mix as "renewable biomass" energy.  Think that sounds too bad to be true?  Ohio's renewable energy standards already count trees as "renewable biomass."  Several Ohio utilities are seeking permits under these regulations to cut and burn millions of tree's for energy. It's time we elect a Green Party governor to keep garbage and trees out of any proposed federal definition of renewable biomass.

Burning biomass is not "carbon neutral" in any time frame that is meaningful to climate change. Our nation's forests are natural "carbon sinks" and our best defense against the climate crisis. When forests are cut for biomass incinerators, they will not re-store the amount of carbon released for decades,, if at all. Groundbreaking scientific reports issued in June 2010 by the Manomet Center for Conservation Science and Environmental Working Group conclusively show that biomass incineration using forests as fuel will undermine efforts to curb carbon emissions. The destructive impacts on forest  diversity have been documented from Oregon to Massachusetts. Burning garbage and wood for electricity is terribly inefficient; biomass incinerators are about 25% efficient – that is, for every 100 trees burned, only 25 are converted into energy. Finally, available data shows biomass burning smokestacks emit more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal, oil and natural gas, and in some cases up to 50% more carbon dioxide than coal, per unit of energy.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio Nominee for Governor

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