Europe's Green Energy Portfolio Up in Smoke? http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51746

Europe seems hell-bent on burning the world's forests for bioenergy, even as it offers billions of euros to save them, critics say.The dirty secret of Europe's vaunted green energy revolution is the fact that 68.5 percent of its renewable energy portfolio comes from biofuels and burning wood for energy, according to a report released in Brussels last week.

Modern technologies like wind and solar get all the press, but burning wood is well, prehistoric. "We estimate at least 27 million tonnes of wood biomass will be needed annually to supply planned power stations in the UK (United Kingdom) alone," said Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch, a British NGO focused on bioenergy issues.