Letters: Banning sales of wet wood for burning is ludicrous

SIR - As a resident of the wood-producing New Forest, I would like to question recent actions by the government.

We now hear we can no longer burn 'wet wood'. Now all wood grows wet, full of sap. When cut down for logs it is usually air dried for a year or two and then burned.

Any remaining ‘wet’ burned goes up the chimney as steam, together with the previously 'captured' carbon dioxide. The evaporation or steam will return as rain and the CO2 can be

captured by the next tree.

So it is a cycle, self-renewing, and causing no environmental damage.

But then the government says we can burn 'kiln dried wood'. How will it be dried? By burning coal, oil or using electricity produced from fossil fuels?

That will be introducing new carbon dioxide into the environment and producing the global warming they are trying to prevent.

And where will the sap from the wood go when kiln dried? Into the atmosphere of course, just the same as if it had been air dried or burned wet in a wood burner.

Isn't it time the government stopped to think before introducing ludicrous measures such as this?

Mike Beggs, Lymington