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Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.

A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood.

The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.

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[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Canada should be renamed Tar Sands and Financing Horrible Mining Ventures brought to you by Loblaws, Bell, and Rogers.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That would ignore the fishery though.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Ignoring the fisheries is extremely on character for the Canadian government tho