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EU Parliament groups rally behind plans to end biomass subsidies
The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have backed proposals to end subsidies for biomass used in power plants and exclude primary wood burning from the EU’s renewable energy targets. The biomass amendments, part of the EU’s renewable energy directive, will be submitted to a plenary vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday (14 September). “We’re going to end the subsidies,” said Nils Torvalds, a Finnish lawmaker from the Parliament’s centrist Renew group who is leading on the biomass proposal. “Due to the subsidies, there are some member states which are cutting much more wood in a way that is not acceptable. And therefore to end the subsidies is a first big step,” he told Euractiv. According to Torvalds, it “will easily find a majority” in plenary thanks to support from the Parliament’s three largest political groups – the... Continue reading
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September 13, 2022
EU Parliament groups rally behind plans to end biomass subsidies
The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have backed proposals to end subsidies for biomass used in power plants and exclude primary wood burning from the EU’s renewable energy targets. The biomass amendments, part of the EU’s renewable energy directive, will be submitted to a plenary vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday (14 September). “We’re going to end the subsidies,” said Nils Torvalds, a Finnish lawmaker from the Parliament’s centrist Renew group who is leading on the biomass proposal. “Due to the subsidies, there are some member states which are cutting much more wood in a way that is not acceptable. And therefore to end the subsidies is a first big step,” he told Euractiv. According to Torvalds, it “will easily find a majority” in plenary thanks to support from the Parliament’s three largest political groups – the... Continue reading
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EU Parliament groups rally behind plans to end biomass subsidies
The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have backed proposals to end subsidies for biomass used in power plants and exclude primary wood burning from the EU’s renewable energy targets. The biomass amendments, part of the EU’s renewable energy directive, will be submitted to a plenary vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday (14 September). “We’re going to end the subsidies,” said Nils Torvalds, a Finnish lawmaker from the Parliament’s centrist Renew group who is leading on the biomass proposal. “Due to the subsidies, there are some member states which are cutting much more wood in a way that is not acceptable. And therefore to end the subsidies is a first big step,” he told Euractiv. According to Torvalds, it “will easily find a majority” in plenary thanks to support from the Parliament’s three largest political groups – the... Continue reading