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  • Do we need a Pollution Tax?

    The Green Homes Grant (GHG) scheme has been abandoned just six months after its launch. Boris Johnson’s promise to ‘build back greener’ had offered household grants of £5,000 – £10,000 to install insulation and low-carbon heating. The scheme was slow, bureaucratic and poorly administrated. Johnson and Rishi Sunak seem to have little or no interest […]

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  • Comment: the biomass heat industry and electricity producers are very different…

    If biomass has a ‘carbon debt’ that is measured between 1 – 50 years (depending upon whom you believe), then fossil fuels have a carbon debt of infinity years. Fossil fuel burning is a net permanent addition of carbon to the atmosphere (or the wider biosphere).  This is the baseline against which all sustainable energies […]

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  • Ban on the sale of wet wood and coal

    From 21st February 2021, the government will ban the sale of pre-packaged bituminous house coal and wet wood in a bid to curb particulate matter (PM) emissions. The pledge was a major part of the Clean Air Strategy which stated that solid fuels currently account for around 39% of all PM pollution in the UK […]

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  • Bagged Wood Pellets

    Woodlets bagged wood pellets are made from sustainable virgin wood. We use original timber – either spruce or pine from Scottish forests. Our trees are all locally-sourced from sustainably managed forests, all within 60 miles of the Woodlets factory, and they are all accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council.  No waste or recycled wood is […]

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  • His Royal Highness Prince Charles’ call to action

    Author Margaret Atwood interviewed HRH Prince Charles on the BBC’s Today programme this week about his long-time environmental campaign and his continued perseverance in pursuit of change of what he truly believes in. HRH ‘I suppose it was in the early 1960s when I was witnessing the destruction of so much natural habitat, the grubbing […]

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  • Training for biomass boiler installation

    Windhager UK has been successful in their application for a grant to offer subsidised training courses (H005DE) in support of the Governments ‘Green Homes Grant’ scheme to heating engineers. Windhager UK will offer the courses on a first come, first served basis to heating engineers with the necessary course pre-qualifications and/or experience at their training […]

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