…pellet producers like Drax.” After attorneys from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) first identified these illegal emissions in 2017, Drax eventually conceded the facility emits three to four times the…
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UK Climate “Ambition” is Clearcutting Climate Resiliency
…is getting in the way of addressing the climate emergency. Despite its record of pollution and forest destruction, Drax (the UK’s largest power station) alone receives £2 million in taxpayers’…
Beware the Biomass Boom and Bust
…have been government sweethearts for too long. For states in the Southern US, where companies like Enviva and Drax are turning their attention to large production facility build-outs, state governments…
Cut Carbon Not Forests: Hard-Hitting Campaign Urges UK Policymakers to Build a True Clean Energy Economy and End Dirty Biomass Subsidies
…Drax, the nation’s largest biomass-burner, which still receives more than £2 million per day in subsidies despite serious concerns about the company’s impacts on the climate, air quality and forests….
Burning Forests also Burns through Cash
…the UK power sector, for example, found that by 2025 Drax’s existing biomass plants will be more expensive to operate than building completely new solar and wind capacity. This week,…