Not the best written article.
I don’t think anyone on either side of the fence is proposing burning trees to generate energy.
The most infamous wood-burning power station in the world is DRAX in Britain. It burns more wood than the U.K. produces and more than any other station in the world. It gets huge subsidies for felling forests as far away as America, then chipping and drying the wood and transporting pellets across the Atlantic. Every step on the way causes large emissions of CO2, but these are conveniently ignored in the mindless war on coal.