Wood Pellet Mills Are Prone to Catching Fire. Why Build Them in California?

This story is first appeared Gristor and is part of Climatic desk Cooperation.

Wooden granules are burned high with design. Small pieces of squeezed wooded remains, like sawdust, everything from the house from the house is used from the heater. However, their burning nature has made dangerous working conditions: At least 52 fires in the United States, in the United States, in the United States, which have been in the United States since 2010.

15 The largest tree pellets were fired or explosions since 2014, at least eight according to Non-profit founded by a former director of the United States Agency for Environmental Protection Agency.

At the same time, the world’s largest biomass company, Drach, cut trees in North America to promise to promise to replace the fossil fossils. However, even his footprint record is carried out in the checkers.

South Shields, England, wooden granules were appointed for a drax plant spontaneous combustion Starting fire, starting a fire to extinguish 12 hours off 40 firefighters while storing in the port of Tyne. Louisiana Louisiana exploded in the flames in November 2021 in Drax Wood-Pellet Facilities.

Now, despite the middle of a lawsuit on casual fire damage, Drax is buried with a new job offer; Not only to cut wooden pellets, not just to cut the trees, but also helps the company stop wildlife.

In October 2023, two pellet mills in California, one of the Tuolumne County and Lassen County, Gold State Natural Residents to meet with Tuolumne County residents, reduce the risk of Wildfire can.

GSNR, because since today, community members close their work. However, in a local community college, Megan Fiske, who helped village workers, the residents living near the proposed granum mill was not always aware of the plans. “People with a hundred feet away [proposed] There was no idea of ​​this pellet plant, “said Fiske.

Both of the proposed mills are in wild areas in the wild. Risks producing tree granules, the Executive Director of the GSNR Patrick Blacklock, “GRIT Executive Director” said.

When the District Representatives approved the plan, the “dead or dead trees” and “woody biomass” and “woody biomass” and “woody biomass” will be allowed within 100 miles of pellet mills, which coincide with the National Forest and Yosemite National Park.

Fiske, Drax, Logger said he did not receive more trees than they did not teach properly under the wild fire scheme and saw more trees. “There is a difference between the apartments and what is happening in place,” said Fiske. “Inexperienced or young people, maybe not the first language in English, so there are many obstacles.”