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Clear Cut – A Guide to Enviva, Environmental Justice and Civic Action against the Wood Pellet Industry

Author: Rachel Carson Council’s (RCC)

Date: 2019

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Briefing

Topics: Bioeconomy, Climate, Forests and Biodiversity

Wood Pellets are a carbon-intense fuel source created from clear cutting and other destructive forestry
techniques in order to produce electricity. Southeastern forests are cut down, ground up and dehydrated
before being shipped around the world in what is often touted as a clean, environmentally safe alternative
to fossil fuels.

Clear Cut unearths the truth behind this willful disinformation by exploring complex political and economic
forces at play supporting this destructive industry - using North Carolina as a case study.

A Factsheet of the report

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