UK power stations burnt wood from old forest areas, Drax emails show | Internal review acknowledges pellets ‘highly likely’ to have come from ecologically important areas in Canada

UK power stations burnt wood from old forest areas, Drax emails show

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Cutting down trees. To be processed into pellets (requiring electricity and water). To put on a diesel powered cargo ship to send across the Atlantic Ocean. To be burned.
This is the stupidest “green” energy plan I have ever heard of.
- That's what's happening if you're hellbent on using old technology.
  All these schemes, ethanol, bio diesel, pellets, biogas, etc are just ways to continue using old assets in the hopes that somehow they're still viable.
  As a stopgap solution they would be fine, but for some reason lobbyists managed to convince politicians that growing corn to produce diesel and then burn that in ICE cars is better than a battery, so now we keep driving ICE cars. Great.