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  • My first thought was, why is Canada allowing these trees to get cut down in the first place. Answer is at the very end of the article.

    Drax said the “low-grade” wood used to make biomass pellets had typically been rejected by commercial sawmills and either sold to the biomass industry as waste wood or burned to prevent wildfires. A spokesperson said it was “far better to use [waste wood] to generate renewable electricity rather than leaving it to burn”.

    The rules that allow companies in the forestry industry to disregard old growth as commercial waste are part of the problem, Hansen said.

    “Even exceptionally old trees can rot in the middle, which is one of their features that makes them so important for wildlife, but could mean the tree is called defective by the logging industry. This could mean that the tree is dismissed as waste wood. But a tree standing up in a forest is not waste,” she said.

    So, the law has a gaping loophole that allows the logging industry to cut pretty much everything down.