To save the world, Cement Australia stops burning coal and burns trees instead

[rangerrebew]

To save the world, Cement Australia stops burning coal and burns trees instead

by Tangerineduel

By Jo Nova

We’ve 1,000 years of coal left underground, but we’re returning to burning trees again to scare off the Climate-Yeti.
Environmentalists are aghast, of course, even though this is exactly what they wanted — a lower carbon form of concrete, and an end to coal.

But the 100 year old coal kiln needs $100m worth of transformation to be able to burn wood and tyres properly. So this is an expensive shift, and it won’t be easy to undo, and now the Greens and ABC (but I repeat myself) are concerned…

Concerns native forests could be part of Cement Australia’s ‘sustainable’ fuel option as it moves away from coal
By Kelsey Reid, ABC

One of the largest cement manufacturing sites in Australia has temporarily shut operations as it upgrades its coal-fired kiln to accept alternative fuel sources such as used tyres and “sustainable” wood waste.

Cement Australia’s Railton plant, in north-west Tasmania, will stop production for an estimated 45 days to allow for the $108 million works as the company moves to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

The whole point of the ABC story is to gnash teeth over where will the woodchips come from? The concrete company says it will only use’ certified sustainable’ wood which should make the EcoWorriers crack the champers. But the greener types can see the temptation will be there to increase the harvest of  native forest, to generate more ‘sustainable’ offcuts.

The Concrete company didn’t want to explain where the wood is coming from, possibly because they didn’t want anyone to chain themselves to any trees.

https://joannenova.com.au/2026/06/to-save-the-world-cement-australia-stops-burning-coal-and-burns-trees-instead/

[rustynail]

If Australia would aggressively adopt MAID they would have a ready source of fuel.

[DefiantMassRINO]

It's incomplete Global Climate Change math ... burning coal adds more net (below ground) carbon to the environment ... burning trees uses exisiting (above ground) carbon ... thus, is closer to carbon-neutral than coal.

When you do the equation using carbon math, it adds up ... except for the poor animals whose habitat is being deforested.  But those varmint bastids are spewing methane farts, so let'em all die to reduce methane emmissions.

Of course, cutting down trees has it own net loss - lost potential carbon sequestration and lost potential CO₂ conversion to Oxygen.

So, only the half of the equation they did works, as long as you don't include the part of the equation they left out.

The Greens compartmentalize Green Math, because taken as a whole, it's nonsense.

[Free Vulcan]

We had to destroy that village to save it.

[Fishrrman]

RINO huffs:
"When you do the equation using carbon math, it adds up ... except for the poor animals whose habitat is being deforested."

How long before the forests have been chopped down and the place looks like
"the Haiti side" of the border with the Dominican Republic ...?

[Idiot]

RINO huffs:
"When you do the equation using carbon math, it adds up ... except for the poor animals whose habitat is being deforested."

How long before the forests have been chopped down and the place looks like
"the Haiti side" of the border with the Dominican Republic ...?

We hiked up to a ski area in Slovakia in the Tatra Mountains.  They had cut down about every tree, it was incredibly sad and just plain ugly.