David to Oversee Growing Fuel Work

AN EXPERT on sustainable technologies has been appointed to oversee projects to make fuel from wood in the North-east.

David Clubb, 34, is the new director of Northwoods, which supports forest businesses with training and advice. The agency, established in 1998, is backed by organisations including the Forestry Commission.

The North-east is England’s biggest timber growing region, producing about 750,000 tonnes a year. An increasing proportion is used by wood fuel generation plants such as Wilton on Teesside, the UK’s largest biomass power station. About 20 other projects are under way.

Mr Clubb, a science graduate who has researched green technologies in Spain’s Almeira desert, said: “It’s been a gradual process alerting the industry and the public to the benefits of using wood in energy generation, but now things are really on the move.

Unlike fossil fuels, it is a sustainable resource with a much lower impact on the environment.”

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