LIB DEMS PROPOSE SCHEME TO ENCOURAGE COUNCIL TO INVEST IN NATURAL FUELS
February 23, 2007 9:17 PM
LIB DEMS PROPOSE SCHEME TO ENCOURAGE COUNCIL TO INVEST IN NATURAL FUELS
In their budget proposals to be debated at council next week the Lib Dems are proposing a scheme to encourage the council building custodians to invest in natural energy sources in a bid to reduce the districts carbon foot print.
"We want to see the council bring forward schemes that replace worn out boilers with those that use biomass fuel such as timber, waste from agriculture, rubbish from peoples homes or from plants such as willow that are grown especially as fuel" says Councillor Denham. "The council has dozens of boilers in schools, public buildings and offices that will need to be replaced. We want to see them being replaced with ones that cut the councils carbon emissions rather than add to them."
"Biomass energy does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as it absorbs the same amount of carbon in growing as it releases when consumed as a fuel. Its advantage is that it can be used to generate electricity with the same equipment or power plants that are now burning fossil fuels. Half a kilo of dry plant tissue can produce as much as 1890 KCal of heat which is equivalent to the heat available from a quarter of kilogram of coal. Biomass energy is becoming much more important as a source of clean heat for business, domestic heating and community heating as it is renewable and free from net carbon dioxide emissions."(1)
"I hope that other groups on the council will support our bid from the resources to kick start a scheme that will reduce the damaging amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere" says Councillor Ann Denham.
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