


"Somewhere here, a landscape has been lost...". In UK, landscapes such as the Highlands of Scotland, The Lake District and Dartmoor are symbols of wilderness. However, these places have been farmed, mined and inhabited by people for millennia. In hidden corners of the moor, relics of its past cling on relics that point to the bizarre fact that when humans first arrived here, these open landscapes were temperate rainforests.
Un rapport publié en décembre 2012 disqualifie la politique énergétique misant sur la biomasse forestière pour produire de l'électricité. Incapables de mobiliser de nouvelles ressources en bois-énergie, les grandes centrales à biomasse fragilisent les filières existantes. Le rapport pointe en revanche le succès des filières locales.