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26.02.26 - 19:12
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Drax power plant to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year (The Guardian)
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The owner of the Yorkshire plant has been criticised for burning material from controversial pellet production plantsThe owner of Drax power plant has started reducing the amount of Canadian wood pellets it burns, and will stop burning trees from British Columbia entirely within the next year.The FTSE 250 company Drax Group said its Canadian wood pellet plants, which once supplied millions of tonnes of biomass to be burnt in its North Yorkshire power plant, had cost the company almost £200m in financial impairments last year. Continue reading......
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19.02.26 - 11:24
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MPs in call to halt Drax′s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts (The Guardian)
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Exclusive: Cross-party group 'deeply concerned' power plant may have misled ministers and regulators over source of wood pelletsEd Miliband is under pressure from MPs to suspend subsidies worth £2m a day paid to the owner of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire after court documents cast doubt on the company's sustainability claims.A cross-party group of 14 MPs and peers have called on the energy minister to halt the subsidies for Britain's biggest power plant while the financial watchdog investigates the company's claims about how it sources the millions of tonnes of wood pellets burned to generate electricity. Continue reading......
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04.02.26 - 15:30
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Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show (The Guardian)
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Company publicly denied allegations that primary forests were being cut down to fuel UK's biggest power plantSenior executives at Drax raised concerns internally about the validity of the energy company's sustainability claims while it publicly denied allegations that it was cutting down environmentally important forests for fuel, court documents have revealed.Britain's biggest power plant assured ministers and civil servants of the company's green credentials as it scrambled to defend itself against claims in a BBC Panorama documentary that it had burned wood sourced from “old-growth” forests in Canada. Continue reading......
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