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Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions In Subsidies? Drax Faces A Reckoning
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions in Subsidies? Drax – the subsidy for Canadian wood pellets is a disgusting waste of money and an international carbon fraud. This doesn’t count towards the UK Carbon Budget because its Canadian. It doesn’t count in Canada either. This is green washing on a monumental scale. This is not renewable energy – those old growth forests cannot be replaced. Drax is one of the great carbon scandals of our era. SELBY, ENGLAND – JANUARY 30: The winter sun sets behind the Drax Bio mass Power Station operated by Drax Group PLC on January 30, 2025 in Selby, England. Once one…
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Drax will keep raising carbon emission levels until 2050s
{Drax will keep raising carbon emission levels until 2050s and this is just from the plant at Drax. The other emissions caused by this ludicrous business are not counted. Earth and Leaf Editorial} {extract below} Raising Carbon Emission Levels Drax will keep raising carbon emission levels until the 2050s despite using carbon capture technology, according to scientific research. The large power plant in North Yorkshire is a significant generator of electricity for the UK but has faced repeated criticism of its business model of burning wood pellets sourced from forests in the US and Canada. The new study found that the intensive forest management needed to source 7m tonnes…
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Biomass Power Station Produced Four Times the Emissions of UK Coal Plant, Says Report
{Drax Biomass Power Station – plus that coal fired power station at Ratcliffe on Soar has now shut – Earth and Leaf Editorial} {extract below} The Drax power station was responsible for four times more carbon emissions than the UK’s last remaining coal-fired plant last year, despite taking more than £0.5bn in clean-energy subsidies in 2023, according to a report. The North Yorkshire power plant, which burns wood pellets imported from North America to generate electricity, was revealed as Britain’s single largest carbon emitter in 2023 by a report from the climate thinktank Ember. The figures show that Drax Biomass Power Station, which has received billions in subsidies since it…
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Government Urged to End Subsidies as Drax Accused of Burning Old Forest Wood
{Drax Accused of Burning Old Forest – Drax is seen as a renewable power supplier and is classed as carbon neutral. This is patently untrue. Government subsidises Drax to do this.Earth and Leaf Editorial} {extract below} Government urged to end subsidies as Drax accused of burning old forest wood This is quite simply outrageous. Drax is seen as a renewable power supplier and is classed as carbon neutral. This is patently untrue. It is also appalling that our government subsidises Drax to do this. Campaign groups found that Drax, which owns the UK’s largest power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, sourced whole logs from primary and old growth forests…
