Environment Agency madness i guess!!

[ukminch]

I've heard that to. British waterways are now allowing burning on some sites. Main problem with the EA is that they haven't got qualified climbers and they haven't got the budget to sub works like that out. Something that they need to address urently IMHO. In fact if they want work doing at a reasonable price...........

 

 

Rob

[skyhuck]

Ditto. On the other hand pruning trees with shears on a 360 is a far worse crime than burning a bit of diesel. Why not prune with a chainsaw and use the diesel that would have gone i the 360 to chip the brash and then use the chip for heating.

 

No doubt it was fracture pruning for habitat.

 

If you start carting the chip around you are burning more carbon again.

[David Riding]

Why don't they run chippers / excavators on vege oil or atleast bio fuel,

[Khriss]

Very interesting thread this.............. Yes, EA do it around the Nene valley too-did a couple of months for them last year. Many of their guys would like to be climbers too. The Enviromental impact stuff is all 6s an 7s ( Did they check for bats -No ) Fossil fuel use in chippers is probly neglible -if you use biodiesel, the primary responsibility is the free draining of the watercourses , this has a huge enviromental impact on wildlife. so a huge can of worms opened and too wet to go fishing..................

[gibbon]

Although its not carbon, I seem to remeber reading somewhere that methane is released from decomposing wood chip which has a greater impact on global warming than carbon does.

[Mesterh]

I wonder how many farmers/tree lads/landscapers etc have been told off by the EA in the past for burning?

 

If it is better for the environment which going by the info in here it is ,then I cant see a thing wrong with it at all, well as long as its not blowing smoke my way

[skyhuck]

I wonder how many farmers/tree lads/landscapers etc have been told off by the EA in the past for burning?

 

 

I really don't understand this

 

It is and has alway been perfectly legal too burn stuff on the site on which it has been produced.

 

You can't, during the cause of your business, create "dark smoke", cause a nuisance, of burn plastic and crap.

 

You also cannot move material too a different site and burn it, I believe.

[woodplans]

I was told by the EA in the past month that we can legally burn upto 10 tonnes of timber waste per day onsite, aslong as the smoke is not drifting into an urban area.

Edited January 18, 2009 by woodplans
re worded

[Johny Walker]

it would be good if theres anyone local to the site they could make a video/take lots off pics for us guys to use in are defence if needed .any thoughts ?

[Pro Gard]

Only problem I can see is the poor cuts from the shear, soil damage and compaction the 360.

 

Nothing wrong with burning in a rural area if done sensibly. I was surprised by a pic posted on here recently of clearance of woods to create a vista were the brush had been chipped, why? burn it and save hastle and derv.