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(BBC Newsline 6.30 - 06/11/2008 / Reporter: Martin Cassidy) Faced with higher fuel costs, many people are turning again to log fires to heat their homes, however environmentalists are warning of a damaging consequence...
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Faced with higher fuel costs, many people are turning again to log fires to heat their homes. Environmentalists may have welcomed the move away from coal and oil, but there has been a negative side effect. Such is the demand, that in some places tree poachers are using chainsaws to cut down and steal trees.

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