A new energy company wants to resume the export of woodchips from native forests and develop a wood-fired hydrogen project for the Hunter Valley
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A spokeswoman for the Port of Newcastle, where woodchip exports ended in 2013, said it knew nothing of the proposal. “We will have a very large-scale community protest that ensures it is as difficult as possible for them to conduct this absurd operation.” Professor David Lindenmayer, an Australian National University specialist in forest ecology and the impact of logging, said the experience in southern NSW and in Victoria was that when markets for waste and chips were developed they tended to become self-sustaining and intensified logging practices.“If you keep cutting the forest at a very young age to keep feeding these mills, eventually the forests never grow old enough to produce saw logs,” he said.
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