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3 ต.ค. 2022 เวลา 04:05 • ข่าวรอบโลก
UK power station owner cut down primary forest in Canada
Drax: โรงไฟฟ้าอังกฤษใช้ไม้ในป่าไม้เบญจพรรณจากแคนาดา แต่ Drax บอกว่าใช้แค่ขี้เลื่อย
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.
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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.4 hours ago
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Drax's Owners
Central Electricity Generating Board
(1974–1990)
National Power
(1990–1999)
AES Corporation
(1999–2003)
Drax Group
(2005–present)
•Will Gardiner
Chief Executive Officer of Drax Group
Almuth Ernsting, researcher and campaigner with Biofuelwatch said:
“Drax is the world’s largest tree burner (1) and already burns more wood than the UK produces in total in its power station every year, much of it from the clear-felling of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests in the Southeastern USA, Estonia, Latvia and Canada.”
A new investigation by Canadian NGO Stand.Earth revealed that almost 845,000 hectares of unprotected primary forests in British Columbia (equivalent to 1.4 million soccer pitches) will be at risk of logging as a result of the takeover of Pinnacle Renewable Energy by Drax. (2)
Tyson Miller, Forest Programs Director at Stand.earth said:
“It is astounding that Drax is using UK taxpayer money to turn some of the most carbon-rich forests on the planet into wood pellets.
It takes decades to centuries for these Northern forests in Canada to recover and we simply don’t have that kind of time. Climate scientists are telling us that we need to do all we can to keep intact forests standing. Instead, by approving this acquisition, Drax shareholders are greenlighting further destruction and degradation of primary forests and threatened species habitat for a false climate solution.”
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