cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23646809

The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince

How green is this? We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station.

Welcome to the scandal of Drax, where Britain’s biggest polluter gets to play climate hero. [...]

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago

This is insane. it would be SO much cheaper to sequester it or use it for material

This is deliberate destruction on a scale that is literally evil but everyone has to pretend its normal because corporation

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Who'd have thought a business named after a Bond villain would have turned out to be horrible

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Drax is an ongoing horrible scandal. The theory was that you could burn replaceable trees and wood waste and replant it and then at the very least it was a cycle, all be it a cycle that had a massive lag of many years before the CO2 was once again captured by new tree growth and the old coal power stations could continue on with this new fuel. In practice its repeatedly been caught cutting down ancient trees that wont be replaced from Canada and the USA. It should not be receiving green subsides its just accelerating the climate crisis and despite its relatively low energy output its the biggest contribution to CO2e production in the UK power system because burning wood is so inefficient.

    The iamkate and gridwatch sites (https://grid.iamkate.com/ and https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/) don't seem to know quite how to classify it with the iamkate putting it into blue alongside nuclear and templar just noting in its description a link to the scandal but also including "bio" in its renewable graphs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You think too much. They fully know what they are doing and are literally trying to kill everything on this planet and make sure nothing may continue here.

    Prove me wrong.

    What I say is fucking obvious. Anything and everything is literally and act of that with a big long gibberish trying to make you think anything else.

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  • You're quite literally burning the Earth's lungs

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you’re going to burn something for energy, burn garbage like non-recyclable plastic waste.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Is there an energy company that offers a "non Drax" plan?

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