Leaked report reveals plans:
- Only allowed to fire with purchased pellets in the future
- Firewood will be replaced with products made of “sawdust, residues and recycled material”
- A new satellite monitoring system will monitor compliance with the rules
Published 18 June 2021 at 17.12
EU. The European Commission is taking a hard line against free energy in rural areas with new legislation that will severely limit wood burning throughout the EU. It shows a leaked EU report that DN publishes.
– Remarkable in many ways, says Skogsindustriernas spokesperson Emma Berglund to DN.
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Jonas Engman is an ethnologist at the Nordic Museum and believes that wood burning is a threats to women and the integration of immigrants.
Instead of being allowed to burn wood, Swedes should be directed to buy so-called pellets, which are made from sawdust and other waste materials, according to the EU's new regulations which are part of the EU's legislative package “Green Deal”.
“The use of wood for the production of short-lived products and for energy supply must be minimized and more specifically based on secondary wood biomass such as sawdust, residues and recycled materials,” the European Commission wrote in the report.
What the punishment for wood burning will be is not stated in the report, which so far is a draft. It is also not clear whether this is a total ban or whether certain wood burning will be allowed.
According to the forthcoming regulations, it will no longer be permitted to cut down forests for the purpose of producing wood. Planting trees with the intention of producing firewood from them should also be avoided, according to the regulations.
A common EU satellite monitoring system should be introduced at the same time to allow the authorities to monitor how the new regulations are complied with in real time.
Wood burning has long been a nail in the eye of the power elite within the EU, not least because those who fire with know are not dependent on those in power and functioning social systems.
Kvällstidningen Expressen warned as early as 2013 that Swedes' tendency to burn with wood had to do with “murky political currents of the time”.
“Woodcutting is a distinctly male occupation and wood nostalgia goes back to old Old Norse customs”, the newspaper wrote in a worried tone and was supported by the reasoning of the researcher Jonas Engman at the Nordic Museum.
– This is Nordic wood, that's the thing … I'm convinced that there are deep conservative values that we do not want to see.
According to the authority, there are more areas that are problematic because they still risk inviting ordinary Swedish men to perform tasks that should rightly be performed by experts.
– Grilling, carpentry on houses and woodcutting are male scenes. They give us a sense of control over our own lives. These are areas that are being strengthened and where women do not have access, Patrik Engman told Expressen then.
The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning followed up the criticism a few years later and introduced a ban on burning wood stoves in 2018, including existing ones. But after angry citizens sent their wood stoves to the Government Offices, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning and responsible ministers, the government was forced to ask the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning to remove the wood stove ban.
“The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's rules for wood stoves will be removed”, read a subsequent press release from the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning 2019.
But after Swedish authorities were forced to give in to the will of the people, the EU Commission now takes over with its own ban.
< The new regulations do not only mean a ban on wood burning. Swedish forestry must be "fundamentally redone" to suit all climate and environmental goals, according to Dagens Nyheter. And the Swedish forest industry is not at all fond of it.
“The Commission's draft forest strategy is remarkable in many ways, with a clear shift of power from the member states to the EU, a number of factual errors and a very lack of understanding of how Nordic forestry and the forest industry work”, writes the industry organization Skogsindustriernas skogspolitiska spokeswoman Emma Berglund in an email to DN. She also writes:
“It is deeply worrying that the Commission is now presenting a proposal, with such a narrow picture of the forest industry's contribution to a green transition and sustainable development, which would prevent the EU and Sweden from reaching their climate goals and make us continue to depend on fossil fuels, if it is implemented “.
According to DN, the Swedish Forest Agency and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences claim that the EU report is wrong on some points, including that Swedish fellings of forests would have increased. A researcher calls it “fake news”, according to DN.
But EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius takes a clear position on the content of the leaked report.
– The report is scientifically based and should taken seriously, he tells Dagens Nyheter today.