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This article has been revised to correct several factual errors and to provide more context concerning the operations of Graanul Invest, the leading Estonian wood pellet company.
The Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Pulitzer Center provided grant support for this story.
When Arvi
Sepp was a boy in Soviet-ruled central Estonia, his parents would walk into the forest, carrying gifts.
“They would bring the first cut of meat from a cow, the first cup of beer from a cask.” He smiles, touching his newsboy’s cap over his white hair. “The first glass of vodka from the bottle.”
Walking haltingly over cobblestones, Sepp recalls how, decades earlier, his family would follow ancient footpaths to find a spring in the center of the hill that rises like an up-thrust fist from the swampy lowlands near his village of Paluküla. There, where the water bubbled up beneath a birch canopy, they laid the offering.
Race for renewables burns through Europe’s forests
Wood pellets are sold as a clean alternative to coal, but campaigners say that a subsidized bioenergy boom in Europe is accelerating the climate crisis
By Hazel Sheffield / The Guardian
Kalev Jarvik stands on a bald patch of land in the heart of Estonia’s Haanja nature reserve and remembers when he could walk straight from one side of the reserve to the other under a canopy of trees.
Jarvik has lived in the Haanja uplands in the southern county of Voru for more than 10 years. His closeness to the forest has shaped his life as a carpenter and the fortunes of the surrounding villages, with their handicraft traditions a substitute for farming on the poor arable land.