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Cliff Bentz: “If we can get the biomass out of the forest, we will drive…”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

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Rep. Bentz Discusses Biomass with Secretary Wright during Subcommittee on Energy Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:00

The reason this is so important is because we need some added value to the biomass that we're removing from the forests. In other words, If we can get the biomass out of the forest, we will drive down fire suppression costs. What I would be asking is the Department of Energy working with the Department of Ag to coordinate and say, look, this is. We can get together on this. (03:00–03:05)

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Asserts that removing biomass from forests will reduce fire suppression costs.

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