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TAM Friday Lecture | BioMESS: The True Climate and Community Impacts of the Woody Biomass Industry
October 4 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Join us in a discussion with Heather Hillaker of the Southern Environmental Law Center to discuss Environmental Advocacy in the US and Europe and the impacts of the Woody Biomass industry.
The lecture will be in FedEx GEC 1005 and on Zoom.
Heather Hillaker helps lead SELC’s regional biomass work, which aims to stop the burning of Southern forests to produce carbon-polluting biomass energy. She works with a coalition of U.S., British, and Canadian nongovernmental organizations in a British-based campaign called Cut Carbon Not Forests, which works to remove policies and subsidies in the United Kingdom that support the biomass industry.
Heather also works alongside community members throughout the South to oppose the expansion of the wood pellet industry in the region. This involves engaging with residents, educating the public and decision makers, and submitting detailed legal and technical comments to state agencies through the permitting process for wood pellet mills. Her advocacy extends to D.C., where she also fights efforts to incentivize biomass at the federal level.
