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 threadVirginicusJun 3, 2023
@AlisonCreekside @mediocratese @toussaint Hang on — 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 exposé 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 🇨🇦Jun 3, 2023
@AlisonCreekside @Virginicus @toussaint #MaxGreenwashing
Show threadAlison Creekside

@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
Jun 3, 2023 at 5:24pmWeb