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// --001a11430242b44a14052c9a90fe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jim, it's fine and gets the point across. I would not have said, Premier you are destroying ...but the concern over wholesale clearing of standing organic on a landscape to generate supposedly Green power is alarming. When we remove a photosynthetic forest canopy that has slowed down in carbon sequestration, there may be a young forest that succeeds in several years to take its place and this forest will have higher ratio of carbon fixed to carbon respired. This much is so but haven't these analyses been done? Where old growth is cleared, there is an almost total loss of the organic forest floor layer. That's carbon as well as nutrient store. Why are some people resisting the idea that harvesting biomass reduces structure, nutrient capital and stored carbon? Only 40% of people believe that humans are the main cause of the current climate change and this number is more than halved when Fort McMurray residents are polled. Follow the money On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Thanks for this, Dave. Below is point no. 3 that you criticized (from > Helga Guderley=E2=80=99s petition) =E2=80=94 could you elaborate a bit on= why that point is > not sound? Thanks and Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > 3. The Nova Scotia Power biomass boiler relies overwhelmingly on primary > harvesting =E2=80=93 trees clear-cut and chipped solely for power generat= ion. Its > =E2=80=9Cmust run=E2=80=9D status is due to the need for steam at the Por= t Hawkesbury Paper > mill, not because it is sustainable. Biomass energy derived from primary > harvesting increases carbon emissions for many decades, unthinkable at a > time when humans need to reduce their carbon footprint. > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > *Subject: **Re: [NatureNS] Biomass Petition - please circulate through > your groups* > *Date: *February 25, 2016 at 8:42:35 AM AST > *To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Reply-To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Thanks Heather & Bob. Point #3 is not sound but 5 out of 6 was a good > grade when I went to school so I signed it and forwarded the petition to > Facebook. > > Yt, DW, Kentville > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* n1gtuq15@aliant > *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:58 AM > *Subject:* [NatureNS] Biomass Petition - please circulate through your > groups > > Fellow naturalists, if you love our forests and hate the practise of > biomass for power, please look at this petition and sign it. > > "Premier Stephen McNeil: Stop destroying Nova Scotia's forest for biomas= s > power generation". 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This much is so but haven't these analyses been done? Where old growt= h is cleared, there is an almost total loss of the organic forest floor lay= er. That's carbon as well as nutrient store.</div><div><br></div><div>W= hy are some people resisti