UK: Drax power station didn’t properly disclose burning forest wood

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1. “BBC Panorama and BBC News has previously reported that Drax held logging licences in British Columbia, Canada, and used wood, including whole trees, from primary and old-growth forests for its pellets.”

   What a shock! Looking at the amount of energy they produce it’s easy to realize there’s not enough sustainable biomass to feed all that power. Apart from a very small operation using marginal sources biomass is a scam, ends up being worse than coal.

2. 25 million GBP fine… they received 893 million GBP in government subsidies in 2021 alone

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