An open letter from the anti-Irish peat biomass power plant conversion plan was sent to the Irish government, which is part of the BordNaMóna (BNM) and Electricity Supply Committee (ESB). Under the guidance of 33 US protection and environmental justice organizations, the signatory called on the government to ensure All three peat power stations will be shut down by 2020, and their capacity should be replaced by true low-carbon renewable energy and higher energy efficiency.
Bord na Móna's 128MW peat and biomass fuel power station. In a letter dated August 13, these groups thought that replacing peat with forest wood chips would not benefit the climate, and that complete peat-to-biomass conversion would require more wood produced in Ireland each year, as well as large-scale timber production in Ireland. Combustion poses a 'serious threat' to the forests of the southern United States - where there is most likely a source of sawdust imports.
With the support of An Taisce - the National Trust of Ireland, one of Ireland's oldest and largest environmental organizations, is calling for the Bord Na Móna (BNM) Edenderry plant, ESB's West Offaly and Lough Ree peat burning power plants Close by 2020, not converted to biomass.
The Irish government must listen to warnings from the US Environmental Protection Agency. Taisce has long called for the emergency elimination of high-carbon, dirty peat burning in Ireland. Burning peat or importing wood pellets will undermine Ireland's climate change commitments and undermine key biodiversity. Sex. An Taisce climate change spokesperson John Gibbons said, 'All this must end.'
According to An Taisce, the appeal also supports the requirements of the Irish environmental NGOs that the Irish government and energy companies must increase their support for 'real low carbon' renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. Domestic biomass resources such as the willow rotation period (SRC) have been considered by the signatories to be “unrealistic” in actual operations and economics.
Bord Na Móna plans to extend the life of its peat burning business by destroying the environment abroad. This is an extreme practice. As a semi-state-owned company, it is under direct political control, so there is absolutely no reason to say that Bord Na Móna cannot be government Guidance, we need to focus on business activities that destroy biodiversity, increase flood risk and further undermine Ireland's climate goals, John Gibbons said.
In Edenderry, Bord Na Móna has been improving biomass co-firing rates and performance since its first trial in 2008. Earlier this year, the company said it would not further advance the 'direct development' of the US biomass pellet plant.
The ESB held an open consultation in March this year to discuss plans to convert its 135 MWe West Offaly power station and 100 MWe Lough Ree power station from peat to biomass.
