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We dont take whole trees. You do. And how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. Logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. Theres no other word for it. This is britains biggest Single Source of electricity. The Drax Power Station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but its switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uks drive to cut Carbon Emissions. And that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. Theres just one problem. Burning wood pellets actually gives out more Greenhouse Gases t...

we don't take whole trees. you do. and how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. there's no other word for it. this is britain's biggest single source of electricity. the drax power station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but it's switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uk's drive to cut carbon emissions. and that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. there's just one problem. burning wood pellets actually gives out more gr...

But intuitively it seems like it's got to be better to burn a tree than to burn coal because the trees can grow back. so that's true. they can grow back. but it takes a really long time for that to happen, and in the short run, you're putting more carbon in the air, and that makes climate change worse. the amount of wood pellets drax burns is astonishing. you get a sense of the amount of wood needed when you see one of these trains. it's got 25 wagons and can carry up to 1,800 tonnes of wood pellets, and all of that will only keep the power station going for about two hours. drax says its wood...

That's just not true, but intuitively it seems like it's got to be better to burn a tree than to burn coal because the trees can grow back. so that's true. they can grow back. but it takes a really long time for that to happen, and in the short run, you're putting more carbon in the air, and that makes climate change worse. the amount of wood pellets drax burns is astonishing. you get a sense of the amount of wood needed when you see one of these trains. it's got 25 wagons and can carry up to 1,800 tonnes of wood pellets, and all of that will only keep the power station going for about two hou...