ground up to make pellets. drax is now the world s second biggest producer of wood pellets. this is its meadowbank plant near the logging city of prince george. once again, piles of logs are stored all around the site. wow. the scale of this plant! you can see the pellet plant itself pouring out that steam and that smoke. and then all those between us and that is just layer upon layer, row upon row of all these tree trunks. it s staggering. drax says it only uses waste wood, but that s not what some of these logs look like.
very fresh tyre prints. so we re still on his tail. nine up dayton. he s coming off there isn t he, at nine? nine up. it s too muddy to follow, so we send up the drone. it s clear that trees have been felled. once again, drax claims this isn t primary forest because it s near a road. but the nearest paved road is six miles away. and the site appears to meet the un definitions of primary forest. we can see the drax truck being loaded up with tree trunks.
they re like proper whole trees. exactly. there are thousands of tree trunks here, ready to be turned into pellets. so, ben, that blue piece of equipment in the foreground, there s a digger next to it. yeah. you can see the logs are just getting taken off the bed of a logging truck and the conveyor is feeding the logs through a chipper, which is then going to be the supply for the mill. so the truck has just reloaded and it s come back down. it s going up to the conveyor belt. look at the size of those logs, ben. they are really significant. it s pretty much a given, i think, that all the logs that we re seeing are going to get
they re like proper whole trees. exactly. there are thousands of tree trunks here, ready to be turned into pellets. so, ben, that blue piece of equipment in the foreground, there s a digger next to it. yeah. you can see the logs are just getting taken off the bed of a logging truck and the conveyor is feeding the logs through a chipper, which is then going to be the supply for the mill. so the truck has just reloaded and it s come back down. it s going up to the conveyor belt. look at the size of those logs, ben. they are really significant. it s pretty much a given, i think, that all the logs that we re seeing are going to get
there are very, very, very fresh tyre prints. so we re still on his tail. nine up dayton. he s coming off there isn t he, at nine. nine up. it s too muddy to follow, so we send up the drone. it s clear that trees have been felled. once again, drax claims this isn t primary forest because it s near a road. but the nearest paved road is six miles away. and the site appears to meet the un definitions of primary forest. we can see the drax truck being loaded up with tree trunks.