A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from U.K. taxpayers is cutting down “environmentally-important forests”, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. BBC News has the story.
Drax runs Britain’s biggest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets – which is classed as renewable energy. The BBC has discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada. The company says it only uses sawdust and waste wood.
Panorama analysed satellite images, traced logging licences and used drone filming to prove its findings. Reporter Joe Crowley also followed a truck from a Drax mill to verify it was picking up whole logs from an area of precious forest.
Ecologist Michelle Connolly told Panorama the company was destroying forests that had taken thousands of years to develop. “It’s really a shame that British taxpayers are funding this destruction with their money. Logging natural forests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane,” she said.
The Drax power station in Yorkshire is a converted coal plant, which now produces 12% of the UK’s renewable electricity. It has already received £6bn in green energy subsidies. Burning wood is considered green, but it is controversial among environmentalists.
Panorama discovered Drax bought logging licences to cut down two areas of environmentally-important forest in British Columbia. One of the Drax forests is a square mile, including large areas that have been identified as rare, old-growth forest.
The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them. Drax’s own responsible sourcing policy says it “will avoid damage or disturbance” to primary and old-growth forest.
However, the latest satellite pictures show Drax is now cutting down the forest. The company told Panorama many of the trees there had died, and that logging would reduce the risk of wildfires. The entire area covered by the second Drax logging licence has already been cut down.
The BBC report explains that although burning wood produces more greenhouse gases than burning coal, the electricity is classed as renewable because new trees are planted to replace the old ones and “these new trees should recapture the carbon emitted by burning wood pellets”. However, “recapturing” the carbon takes decades, plus the “offsetting” can only work if the pellets are made with wood from sustainable sources. It adds:
Primary forests, which have never been logged before and store vast quantities of carbon, are not considered a sustainable source. It is highly unlikely that replanted trees will ever hold as much carbon as the old forest.
Panorama’s “The Green Energy Scandal Exposed” is being shown on BBC 1 at 8pm this evening, October 3rd, and will be on iPlayer afterwards.
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Excellent work. Really like to see similar data for other countries – as many as possible – and look at any correlations between this, “vaccination” rates and lockdown stringency.
Here’s Norman Fenton and Martin Neil’s analysis, including a very interesting and thorough 25min video;
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-devils-advocate-an-exploratory?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
I say it’s clearly too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet, decreasing or increasing ice in the arctic, bleaching or not bleaching of the coral reefs, too much or too little wind. I have all the receipts from the trusted fact checker sites. The debate is settled, now move on and show your support for the ‘current thing’ as explained by the BBC.
Head of international vascular society demands stop of the gene therapies.
And this GP. There’s more and more gradually appearing isn’t there? This chap has actually been speaking out for ages and has appeared on many different shows, inc The Delingpod, if you search Rumble. He’s still in a job because he’s got the data to back up everything he says.
https://rumble.com/v1hwck3-dr.-tess-lawrie-interviews-dr.-david-cartland-no-more-injections.html
Dr Malhotra and indeed anybody who is sceptical about the value of the vaccines and the lockdown attracts Wikipedia sabotage from the team of bots and smear-authors. It’s just like the good old days of Climategate, when W M Connolley’s disciples removed “off-message” Wiki edits or smeared authors who were sceptical of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Warming Hypothesis.. They would strike within minutes of a new post. The new generation of saboteurs call themselves “fact-checkers” but the tactics are the same.
So most people are slowly coming to realize that the initial predictions that thrombosis would be a recognized complication of mRNA therapies are correct. There will be enormous resistance in government and much of the media to this conclusion. In the end the truth will emerge.
The data is collated with consistency by our records team for just this sort of analysis. It’s a shame that the organisations tasked with doing so seem to have forgotten their purpose. Leaving it to others which also weakens the trust in those negligent agencies.