Thanks to NY Biomass Incinerator, Firewood More Difficult to Find
- by Pete Creedon, October 6, 2014, Watertown Daily Times
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The question is, at what cost? The people this will affect in a negative way are a small group of people who for the most part will not receive any of the benefits of this biomass plant.
These people are the ones who heat their homes with wood. For the last couple of years as this plant has been coming online, it has become harder to find firewood and at a price that has not been inflated.
There was an article in the paper last year, I believe, how the firewood producers were saying that they have not cut back on firewood production in favor of wood chip production for this biomass plant. That is hard to believe. The company I get my firewood from, I know for a fact, supplies this plant.
Last year, it was difficult to find the wood I needed for last winter. The price was almost double what I spent the year before.