CindyAMay 30, 2023
toussaint
right now there are trees being chopped down in Mississippi, USA. They are taken to a plant that smashes them up, makes pellets out of them, loads pellets on a truck, drives to the port, where they are put on a boat and shipped to UK. There, the pellets are taken off a boat, loaded on rail and truck to send to a electricity plant where they burn those pellets AND GET ENVIRONMENTAL $CREDITS$ for doing so, cause wood is categorized as a 'green' renewable bio-fuel #Climate
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/29/drax-owned-wood-pellet-plant-in-us-broke-air-pollution-rules-amite-bioenergy-mississippi-emissions-limits?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1685361168
Drax-owned wood pellet plant in US broke air pollution rules again

Amite BioEnergy, which was fined $2.5m in 2021, notified Mississippi facility had breached emission limits

The Guardian
May 29, 2023 at 12:15pmWeb
Show threadGrantMay 29, 2023

@toussaint

Then there's this... if you want to see how bad it really is, watch the BBC Panorama documentary... available for 4 more months:

(Resume... they're secretly harvesting "environmentally-important forests" in Canada)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cw6z

Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.

BBC News
Show threadZeke πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦May 29, 2023
@toussaint British Columbia is losing old growth forests to wood pellets for Drax also. Unconscionable.
Show threadAlison CreeksideMay 31, 2023
@mediocratese @toussaint
The British Columbia NDP gov pushed Drax wood pellets as a renewable source of energy and licensed them to log old growth. Then 2 years ago, the BC gov's longtime chief forester, Diane Nicholls, appeared in Drax ads and was subsequently hired away by Drax as a vice-president.
Drax, a privatised public company, received two million pounds a day in subsidies from the U.K. government in 2021.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wood-pellets-bc-forests-green-energy-1.6606921
Wood from B.C. forests is being burned for electricity billed as green β€” but critics say that's deceptive | CBC News

The largest power station in the U.K., Drax, burns wood pellets sourced from B.C.’s old growth and untouched forests to create electricity. Scientists and environmentalists argue it’s a false solution to the climate crisis.

CBC
Show threadZeke πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦May 31, 2023
@AlisonCreekside @toussaint Disgraceful, disgusting and despicable.
Show threadVirginicusJun 3, 2023
@AlisonCreekside @mediocratese @toussaint Hang on β€” they named their company after a literal Bond villain?!
Show threadAlison CreeksideJun 3, 2023

@Virginicus @mediocratese @toussaint
Isn't Drax from Marvel comics?
Anyhow, looked it up, and Drax is named after a village near its power plant in Yorkshire.

BBC did a big exposΓ© in Oct 2022.
The problem is burning wood produces more GhG than the coal it is meant to replace even before you factor in cutting old growth forests, and receives billions from UK taxpayers to do so.
#climate #greenwashing
Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348
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Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.

BBC News
Show threadZeke πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Jun 3, 2023
@AlisonCreekside @Virginicus @toussaint #MaxGreenwashing
Show threadAlison CreeksideJun 3, 2023

@mediocratese @Virginicus @toussaint
UK energy regulator Ofgem is now investigating Drax claims to sustainability and its renewable energy subsidy scheme.
Here's the bs part:
Drax said it had not cut down the primary forests itself and had transferred the logging licences to other companies but authorities in British Columbia confirmed that Drax still holds the licences.
#greenwashing #climate #bcpoli

Ofgem to investigate Drax compliance with biomass reporting rules
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/31/ofgem-investigation-drax-compliance-biomass-renewable-energy-subsidy-scheme

Ofgem to investigate Drax compliance with biomass reporting rules

Regulator expected to examine whether sustainability reports on sourcing of wood pellets meet renewables subsidy criteria

The Guardian
Show threadDoug πŸŒˆπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ May 29, 2023
@toussaint
Drax was the villain in James Bond Moonraker
Show threadDoug is riding the mastodon!May 29, 2023
@toussaint We need systematic ways to identify and expose this type of venal scamming. I assume it's quite common.
Show threadAndii אַנדִֽיMay 29, 2023
@toussaint This is bonkers. On stilts.
Show threadFan of Shared Truth & EmpathyMay 29, 2023
@toussaint @shansterable capitalism ALWAYS finds a way to win
Show threadsandywb14May 29, 2023
@toussaint Good grief.
Show threadLyndeeMay 29, 2023

@toussaint

Jfc

Show threadC. R. Collins 🌳 🐸May 29, 2023
@toussaint
😑
@gwaldby
Show threadJOJOEheyJOEMay 29, 2023
@toussaint @potus @petebuttigieg
Show threadCrispy Gnome ChomskyMay 29, 2023
@toussaint It's being done with Canadian wood as well. And not just any wood - in many cases, they are taking unreplacable, vanishing old growth forests, which the province continues to pretend to be committed to preserving, and shipping them to the UK to be burned as green energy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wood-pellets-bc-forests-green-energy-1.6606921
Wood from B.C. forests is being burned for electricity billed as green β€” but critics say that's deceptive | CBC News

The largest power station in the U.K., Drax, burns wood pellets sourced from B.C.’s old growth and untouched forests to create electricity. Scientists and environmentalists argue it’s a false solution to the climate crisis.

CBC
Show threadFrances LarinaMay 29, 2023

@toussaint

It would be good if that system was not an intentional farce.

Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsMay 29, 2023
@toussaint The eroei on this has to be under 1.
Show threadCatherine BerryMay 30, 2023

@toussaint

It is effectively impossible to craft "green" legislation which will not be gamed into irrelevance or worse.

Show threadPhil Thane βœ…May 30, 2023
@toussaint Many years ago I wrote, freelance, for an alt energy trade mag and the editor walked me for a piece about Drax, then being converted from coal to wood. Everyone I interviewed talked up the jobs, the money to be made, the investment. No-one gave actual figures for CO2 reduction overall and long term. Massive greenwashing exercise.
Show threadvioletmazeMay 30, 2023
@toussaint @[email protected] I see this train frequently either in person at Edge Hill Station or going past on a train...there are regular protests at the Port of Liverpool against Drax.
Show threadembixMay 30, 2023
@toussaint Is Hugo Drax still plotting to kill humans on earth and surviving with his fellow billionaires in space?