Threatened
Forests: a new look at
“green energy”
Threatened
forests’ explores some hidden realities behind “green energy”
in the EU.
Filmmaker Benoit Grimont made this documentary as a response to the development of a large scale biomass electricity installation in Gardanne, southern France. His film discovers that renewable energy – heavily supported by EU countries – may not be anything like as ‘green’ as we are led to believe.
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The
EU and the Deforestation of Ukraine
by Dmytryi
Kovalevich
18
May, 2016
Since
2014 we have in Ukraine a mass deforestation. The entire forests and
parks are being eliminated, causing local environmental disasters.
However, until now the logging has been mostly illegal. But now the
EU is demanding from Ukraine to lift the ban on exporting timber/wood
as a condition of obtaining the next EU macrofinancial aid (1.2
billion euro), reminding Kiev that this is a term of the
Euroassociation agreement, – reports Ukrainian
Minister of economic development and trade.
Currently,
even the polluted radioactive forests of the Chernobyl zone are being
cut: “But logging in a post-apocalyptic forest would pose a number
of health concerns. Trees, like moss, absorb radiation from the
subsoil. Also, clear-cutting churns up soil, stirring radioactive
dust and accelerating erosion,” reports New
York Times.
Not
to mention the Carpathians, which have turned into ‘devastated
lands’ in the two years since Maidan. “The total
devastation of protected forests in the Carpathians has been underway
in recent years,” notes Censor
Net,
providing photographic evidence of the environmental destruction
that’s taking place.
As
even the Unian reports:
“There is a struggle for the checkpoint Tisa [west border], where
there is a major flow of smuggled goods. Through this checkpoint the
expensive timber is exported from Ukraine, which is illegally logged
in the national parks across the Carpathians.” Meanwhile,
despite an official ban on exporting timber, dozens of trains with
illegally logged wood daily
cross Ukrainian west border – going to the EU.
So,
the EU demand to lift the ban on exporting timber is just a demand to
legalize the practice of grabbing natural resources.
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