"a new investigation claims pellets made by B.C.’s two largest wood pellet companies originate from whole trees as well as sawmill residuals and finds that burning pellets releases more greenhouse gas emissions than coal"

https://countysustainabilitygroup.com/2020/04/24/b-c-giving-millions-to-transform-rainforest-into-wood-pellets-for-export-new-report-documents/

"Plans to shift Europe’s coal plants to burning wood pellets instead could accelerate rather than combat the climate crisis and lay waste to woodland equal to half the size of Germany’s Black Forest a year, according to campaigners."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/16/converting-coal-plants-to-biomass-could-fuel-climate-crisis-scientists-warn

"The UK is the largest user of biomass electricity in Europe, and a significant portion of that is fueled by trees cut from forests across the Southeast US"

"Inexplicably, the UK classifies biomass electricity as a carbon-neutral fuel."

https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/biomass-for-british-power-is-stripping-southern-forests

"for biomass production across the [US] South, it's still boom time. The industry has exploded, driven largely by European climate policies and subsidies that reward burning wood"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072020/wood-pellet-business-booming-scientists-say-%E2%80%99s-not-good-climate

New in Nature: " #Estonia [has] one of the highest rates of forest loss in Europe ... The surge [85% over what it had been in the previous decade] largely brought on by demand for wood pellets for bioenergy"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/estonia-holy-forests-threatened-by-industrial-tree-farming/

"The forest #biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk" https://twitter.com/mongabay/status/1300550758207819776

Tokyo-based Toyo Engineering Corp "has now recorded its 7th order for 50-MW-class and 75-MW-class biomass power plants"

https://renewablesnow.com/news/japans-toyo-to-build-75-mw-biomass-plant-in-chiba-712673/