Is this what's causing higher cordwood prices

[likeitorlumpit]

BBC News - Grangemouth biomass protesters arrested

This subsidised market is distorting the market

Profit for big companies at the expense of our taxes- discuss

[skyhuck]

ALL energy prices are rising.

 

Wood is energy, why should it be any different??

[Frankie Lawrence]

the only thing worse than protesters is climate change protesters

 

rising cordwood price just means a rise in log prices

[slack ma girdle]

Profit for big companies at the expense of our taxes- discuss

 

Theres your answer: Profit and big companies. Put the two together and you will have the cause of most of our problems.

[NI Tree]

and the goverment subdising biomass plants, i just hope it dose not kill the mill here as they need wood too

[Frankie Lawrence]

people who use biomass need to be a bit smarter instead of using valuable wood as I have seen they need to try and use less useful stuff.

 

or buy a few fields plant it up full of stuff like sycamore cut it after ten years and itll grow in no time at all. but as usual its all rushed etc

[BCF]

people who use biomass need to be a bit smarter instead of using valuable wood as I have seen they need to try and use less useful stuff.

 

or buy a few fields plant it up full of stuff like sycamore cut it after ten years and itll grow in no time at all. but as usual its all rushed etc

 

I would of thought we had plenty of chestnut coppice here in Kent to help support the biomass market, don't forget that the pulp mill at Kemsley used to take 250,000 tonnes of it a year out of Kent and East Sussex before they closed Kemsley down.

[Tom D]

rising cordwood price just means a rise in log prices

 

Does it?

 

log priced have been pretty stable for years. cord prices on the other hand....

[Frankie Lawrence]

I would of thought we had plenty of chestnut coppice here in Kent to help support the biomass market, don't forget that the pulp mill at Kemsley used to take 250,000 tonnes of it a year out of Kent and East Sussex before they closed Kemsley down.

 

maybe we do but theres still alot of woodman trying to make monney soley on chesnut and the good sites are being taken for biomass maybe this is just a local thing to me i dont know

[Chris Sheppard]

Does it?

 

log priced have been pretty stable for years. cord prices on the other hand....

 

absolutely. Round us, the price of a hilux load has only gone up around £10-£15 since I stopped selling logs and that was when roundwood was £17/tonne roadside

Edited May 16, 2011 by Chris Sheppard