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Scientists attack biomass power subsidy
2014-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Some of the most distinguished scientists in the US have written to UK energy secretary Ed Davey, urging him to abandon the governments misguided subsidies for companies burning wood pellets to generate electricity, such as the Drax plant in Yorkshire. The biologist, Dr E.O. Wilson and Professor Daniel Kammen, an energy adviser to the US State Department, are among 60 signatories to a letter seen by the FT. It warns that UK energy policies are stimulating an explosive growth in wood pellet...
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