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Anyone who is still in trade with Russia should be sanctioned as fuck by the West!
If you don't like it, not to worry! Plenty countries left to trade with! You just don't get shit from the West anymore!
Woohooo. Haha.
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Forest advocates in Asia, Europe and the United States are livid at South Korea's actions, noting that Russian imports now make up 15% of South Korea's total wood pellet supply.
Rita Frost, an international forest advocate with the North Carolina NGO Dogwood Alliance, told Mongabay: "South Korea's growing wood pellet demand is already destroying forests and harming communities here in the Southern U.S. It seems [now] to have gotten even more controversial: While the rest of the world is boycotting Russian wood pellets, South Korea is increasing its imports - all in the name of a false solution to climate change."
Online reports in late December documented how the EU appears to be offsetting its loss of Russian wood pellets due to sanctions by increasing pellet imports from the U.S. and Eastern Europe.


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How would wood pellets fight climate change? Burn them for electricity because wood is a renewable resource? >


How would wood pellets fight climate change? Burn them for electricity because wood is a renewable resource?

That, plus it is a way to use 100% of the waste caused in the production of lumber.
Plus, burning wood is almost carbon neutral, as long as there is a system put in place to plant and manage replacement trees for consumption. >

I was checking this indeed and the tariff code of these products indeed prohibit the import of these wood pellets. Didn't find a single country that allows them.
Result triple prices here in europe for this product >

Didn't read their Adam Smith >

Curious if that's why i am struggling to find the cat's wood litter pellets, he ain't happy about it, lol. >

These are fuel pellets for wood furnaces. >

These same pellets are also functional for and marketed as cat litter, it’s a dual use product. >

After using it for litter, it can be used in your furnace!
(Please do not attempt) >

I love the smell of odorless carbon monoxide mixed with hints of methane. >

Strangely enough, from what I gathered from VICE documentaries these pellets are made by North Korean slave labour in Russia. >

Felling forests to fuel power plants is beyond stupid in the first place. Who was paid off to classify this as a climate solution? >

I think wood pellets are mainly used for local heating at home. At least in Germany it's a niche with around 3% of home solutions.
I don't know about other countries, but the German lumber industry claims that there is enough wood available and they can regrow fast enough for the domestic demand. It is also a by-product of the saw wood production, made of the parts that are not usable otherwise.
The problem is not the danger of deforestation, but rather the emissions from burning wood and releasing it into the atmosphere. At least you don't get the ancient CO2 from coal or oil, but it's still multiple decades of CO2, and burning wood is also pretty dirty with a lot of fine particles and other gases that are troublesome. >

The US ships Europe enormous numbers of wood pellets to burn in power plants as "renewable" energy. Large forests in the US Southeast are largely dedicated to producing these pellets. 
Biomass began as a means to utilize local sawmill waste in a few remote towns, including one I used to live in. That made sense. However, declaring all biomass green has led to a gigantic, global wood pellet industry that spews far more carbon than it saves.
Recent evidence shows that preserving mature forests is one of the best things we can do for the climate. I don't think we can keep cutting forests on 30-year cycles in order to claim carbon savings that don't exist. >

Thanks, I guess when I read about wood pellets, I mistook their invention, which was definitely a great way to make use of a waste product, as the only way it is used today.
Burning pellets on a large scale for power plants obviously has much higher demand that probably requires more than just by-products. It should stay a niche to be ecological.