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berlin nh resident

08/12/08 9:47 AM

#35951 RE: veritas-twj #35950

Sit tight (patience) Tommy. More "good" news on top of that coming also.

LOL

Thanks for including the link.



"Denial ain't no river in Egypt"
"The devil is in the details"
"Respect speaks truth"

JMOHO
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Penysfmhvn

08/12/08 9:58 AM

#35952 RE: veritas-twj #35950

Your statement has one flaw also. The state also uses this company to do studies for them as they are known as the premier forestry experts in the state. The University of NH forestry Dept has already published a study that agrees with this one.
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Grozny

08/12/08 12:58 PM

#35971 RE: veritas-twj #35950

I do not see any problems with that objective analysis! Great work!

I love facts.
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purplemountain

08/12/08 3:54 PM

#35985 RE: veritas-twj #35950

What part of the White Mountain National Forest is whole tree harvesting allowed on? According to the recent (2006) Forest Plan, it looks like tops and branches must be left in th ewoods. This on top of a greatly diminished timber program (now called "vegatation management -- that will tell you how much wood you can expect).



KEY EXCERPTS (AND FLAWED ASSUMPTIONS) FROM THE CP BIOMASS FUEL AVAILABILITY STUDY:

1) "In the 30 miles surrounding Berlin, NH, roughly 36 percent of the timberland is publicly owned, including 28 percent that is part of the White Mountain National Forest. For purposes of this analysis, INRS has assumed that no volume of biomass fuel will come from public lands. This is conservative, and it is possible that a biomass plant in Berlin, NH would receive fuel from proximate public land."

In other words, the study excluded a huge 36% of the available timberlands surrounding Berlin as a source of biomass fuel... A deeply flawed assumption...