pvonhellermannn , to random
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A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, the BBC has found.

The way and others can keep on burning wood because it counts as is just scandalous. We really must drop the language of (a hangover from peak oil worries anyway) and go for energy instead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

RichardAshwell , to random
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Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests

A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious , the BBC has found.

Papers obtained by Panorama show took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were "no go areas".

It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm's Yorkshire site billions more in environmental funded by bill payers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

RichardAshwell OP ,
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Here's a detailed report from biofuelwatch:

Logging what’s left - How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drax-in-BC-report.pdf

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