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Ignore the Chatham House report - biomass has a crucial role in the clean energy system

Ignore the Chatham House report - biomass has a crucial role in the clean energy system
  • Nina Skorupska, Renewable Energy Association
  • 24 February 2017
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The REA's Nina Skorupska hits back at yesterday's Chatham House report which denounced the burning of woody biomass as more harmful than coal

In October, I wrote here that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and that myths and untruths have gone too long unchecked. It should come as no surprise that I was therefore very disappointed by yesterday's...

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