Originally Posted by Happy Feet

Nor does the earth discriminate as to which CO2 gas source it sequesters - fossil or wood - it is all the same and gets stored equally. To imagine you can burn wood and consider it carbon neutral because wood sequesters CO2 is a premise based on a basic misunderstanding of science.

Companies plant biomass simply because it is one way to sequester CO2 and by doing so they can balance their output and create a smaller carbon footprint. If they do enough they become carbon neutral. You don't need to use big words to understand that simple concept.