Thank you for including this information. I’d like to emphasize that wood-pellet biomass plants don’t just harm forests — they harm people. These facilities are almost always sited in low-income and marginalized communities who have the least power to fight back. Residents are forced to live with constant industrial noise, dust that coats homes and playgrounds, and air pollution (including fine particulate matter and VOCs) that worsens asthma and other respiratory diseases. Independent monitoring has repeatedly shown emissions violations at these plants, even as companies market biomass as “clean” energy.
It’s a double injustice: forests are degraded in the name of climate solutions, and the families who already bear the brunt of environmental burdens are the ones exposed to the health risks. If an industry can only survive by sacrificing certain communities and ecosystems, it isn’t sustainable — it’s exploitation.
Thank you for including this information. I’d like to emphasize that wood-pellet biomass plants don’t just harm forests — they harm people. These facilities are almost always sited in low-income and marginalized communities who have the least power to fight back. Residents are forced to live with constant industrial noise, dust that coats homes and playgrounds, and air pollution (including fine particulate matter and VOCs) that worsens asthma and other respiratory diseases. Independent monitoring has repeatedly shown emissions violations at these plants, even as companies market biomass as “clean” energy.
It’s a double injustice: forests are degraded in the name of climate solutions, and the families who already bear the brunt of environmental burdens are the ones exposed to the health risks. If an industry can only survive by sacrificing certain communities and ecosystems, it isn’t sustainable — it’s exploitation.