Biomass energy in Montana subject of demo, scandal

Troy Morse, of Mark’s Lumber in Clancy, is barely audible as he talks about latter-day logging amid the din of his company’s enormous wood grinder.

The red grinder, on display for lawmakers in the parking lot of a state building in Helena Thursday, takes dead trees that might otherwise be burned for slash and turns them into a coarse mixture of wood chips and smaller bits that the University of Montana-Western burns to heat its buildings.

“We could sell more,” Morse said.

By JENNIFER McKEE IR State Bureau

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