Drax Makes a Mockery of International Day of Forests
The new report shows that last year Drax sourced over 8 million tonnes of wood, burning almost 6 million tonnes of it in its North Yorkshire power station. Drax’s global wood supply came from:
The United States (over 5 million tonnes), where logging for wood pellets in the U.S. Southeast is occuring in a global biodiversity hotspot.
Canada (over 2 million tonnes), where recent investigations found new evidence suggesting that Drax’s 2023 operations sourced wood from threatened old-growth forests.
Estonia (over 86 thousand tonnes), where investigations in 2022 found evidence indicating wood pellets were being sourced from forests containing habitat for rare and imperilled species.
Portugal (over 35 thousand tonnes) where a new investigation revealed evidence indicating that wood sourced by a Drax supplier in the country has been clearcut from an ecologically important nature reserve...
Interestingly, the report is from the NRDC, which has no problem being in favor of converting huge tracts of wilderness into industrial parks for solar and wind. They refer to a "study" of the type reported by the
"I'll sue you if you say I'm wrong" Stanford Asshole Mark Z. Jacobsen, that solar and wind can provide all of the the UK's energy.
The "Natural Resources Defense Council" strikes me as having a set of appalling blinders on with respect to natural resources. They remind me rather of the Sierra Club, which never sees a wilderness that they think should be made into an industrial park for solar and wind, even though their founder, John Muir, founded the organization to fight the industrialization of the Hetch Hetchy valley wilderness in Yosemite, a battle he lost.
Apparently the Drax "coal to biomass" plant needed to fire up quite a bit during periods of low wind speed.
The term "renewable energy" consists of one word that is obviously fraudulent.
Thank you, as always, for your kind words.
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