Dr. Pierre-Marie Aubert:

Not at all. There is no point in bringing wood from Canada or Russia just because they are areas where wood will come from, given the transportation costs in terms of money and CO2, and given the biodiversity impacts of harvesting forests in Russia or Canada. We have the same problem in France. We have just transformed a former coal power plant into a wood power plant. We do not have enough wood in France to supply that power plant and, therefore, we are importing wood from Canada, but it does not make any sense. The question is how to lower the demand for energy.

On biomass, there is potential for biogas production in Ireland to avoid relying on wood imported from all over the world.