Stobarts not payin for wood chip

[mikedrums69]

Flip me! When I was working with a company up in Cheltenham about 2 years ago. He was getting £13 a tonne!

 

As long as your chipper blades are sharp and it's producing good chip. Surely it up to the biomass companies to dry it out? Considering there the ones who get a bigger slice of the pie.

[nick channer]

can u not compost it & plow it in to the land

 

Buy nice pas100 grade compost at £2.50 ton delivered

[renewablejohn]

Power generation, although many of the larger plants are heat and power.

 

Residues from arboriculture

 

In DECC’s Government Response published in August 2014, it was confirmed that arboricultural arisings would be exempted from the sustainability requirements of the Timber Standard for the RO.

 

Arboricultural arisings comprise/will be defined as material that is removed as part of tree surgery, management of municipal parks and verges of roads and railways.

DECC have confirmed that where industry seek to rely on these exemptions under the RO, it will be for the biomass supplier or generator operator to provide Ofgem with evidence verified as part of the annual sustainability audit reports which allows the regulators to determine that the relevant exemption has been met.

 

Operators can discuss with Ofgem the type of evidence which they would consider acceptable for verification, bearing in mind that it will be a legal requirement under the European Timber Regulation (EUTR) to collect information about the origin of such material.

 

But the August 2014 document only comes into effect post 1st April 2015 assuming its passed by parliament so upto that point in time arb arisings are not classed as sustainable and therefore useless for RHI purposes hence the response by Stobarts. Given that Jenkinsons aka Stobarts where one of the consultees on the August 2014 document it would be difficult for them to contend that they did not know Arb arisings was not a sustainable fuel.

[Ian C]

Just called stobart, still taking it off me as I'm near 3 power stations.

[treebloke]

Just called stobart, still taking it off me as I'm near 3 power stations.

 

Ditto, ordered four lorries for next week at the normal rate.

[Ian C]

Ditto, ordered four lorries for next week at the normal rate.

 

What you getting a ton?

[HGBMX]

It's probably because they are losing money as it takes at least 3 attempts for their drivers to finally get in the woods.

[Mark Cattell]

Location is key, more travel less they pay...

 

I had a right game with them on a recent site in Malvern....

 

Poor communication and organisation...

 

no show on a few occasions at yard too, which was not a big issue with yardman and loader but if you was booking a loader or local farmer for a few hours this would be a real pain in the ass....

[SimonBullock]

"Given that Jenkinsons aka Stobarts where one of the consultees on the August 2014 document it would be difficult for them to contend that they did not know Arb arisings was not a sustainable fuel." Can you clarify what this sentence means?

[treebloke]

What you getting a ton?

 

They have called this morning to say the price has dropped and do we still want to proceed with the loads we have booked for tomorrow. It looks like the end.

 

We will continue with tomorrows loads but I think it will be the last we send unless the price goes back up.

 

Trouble is what do you do with an artic load per week?.