Page 10 - Tree Trunks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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...

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...

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.

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. i can see a massive log

When it hit 39 miles per hour, the police and fire stopped responding to 911 calls. but we talk about the storm surge and, you know, it can be incredible powerful, incredibly strong. the force of mother nature with that water coming ashore, i was at a location where we had some storm surge once and i was right on it, and there were tree trunks moving there like twigs. i mean, that is the incredible power of water moving with winds from mother nature. and we're talking about winds of 140-plus miles per hour. let's take a look as we're standing here. and the reason we're taking a look at the dro...