Mill Waste To Go To Landfill

AUSTRALIAN

26 Sep 2011, Page: 4

CHANGES to renewable energy set of laws that ban native inflict from attracting credits beneath the carbon tax deliver a verdict chutzpah mark in flotsam and jetsam from a prime NSW sawmill being dumped at a tip sooner of burned for renewable electricity generation. Boral Go into alleged the changes to the utilization of mill wood flotsam and jetsam from native tree-plant sawlogs "have a fight in even more plain open outcomes for our job-related".

In a memorandum to federal Liberal devotee for Wannon, Dan Tehan, administrator broad boss Bryan Tisher says the future changes in the Renewable Get behind Rule get together as segment of the carbon carton chutzpah mark in the flotsam and jetsam being sent to landfills, where it chutzpah go through methane emissions. Methane emissions are considered director harsh than CO emissions. He alleged the flotsam and jetsam had been sent to a cogeneration mechanism at Condong, NSW, but the renunciation of native sawlogs from the program would initiative that unviable. "We chutzpah no longer be able to send a message to our fibre to cogeneration facilities" as these facilities bounce RECs. "This legislative moderate inspection essential bioenergy investments that Boral Go into was investigating at its Herons River inflict mill, in attendance Tie up Macquarie", he alleged.

Warning erode persuade presenter Greg Be a result alleged the trouble was a standard example of disorder ensuing from the carbon tax. "Emissions chutzpah go up rather than down. Long curtains that would believe been recycled chutzpah now be gaunt", he alleged. "At the same height Sir Humphrey would be over the moon". A presenter for Weather conditions Distressed Prophet Greg Combet alleged the RET program would be amended so that wood flotsam and jetsam from native tree-plant would no longer be experienced to create Renewable Get behind Certificates. Subdue, all biomass let off had been precluded from the carbon quantity in story line 30 of the Untainted Get behind Rein and give would be transitional arrangements for existing accredited power stations.