toussaintMay 29, 2023
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
Show threadZeke 🇨🇦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 — 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 🇨🇦
@AlisonCreekside @toussaint Disgraceful, disgusting and despicable.
May 31, 2023 at 12:27amWeb