Environment
Tassie wood to fire Japan power plants
Nick Clark Mercury
TASMANIAN wood will be exported to Japan for use in wood-fired power plants, says Forestry Tasmania managing director Bob Gordon. Speaking at the launch of Forestry Tasmania’s new vision and mission statement yesterday, Mr Gordon said there had already been several exports, mostly to Japan. Starting in October, Gunns Ltd will export native wood from Triabunna to the Japanese company Chubu Electric. “There have been several exports of fuelwood in the last 12 months to a variety of customers in Japan,” Mr Gordon said. “The Japanese are like everywhere else in the world, they are trying to replace fossil fuel-powered electricity with renewable electricity which comes from wood waste.” Read more here