The simple fact is that the £500 million project, funded of course by government subsidies, would barely have made a dent in the black hole created by intermittent wind power.
Tag: Drax
British Politicians, Green Energy Company Accused of Polluting a Mississippi Town
A horrid mess of impoverished workers, alleged pollution, government subsidies and a big dose of greenwashing.
How Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Fantasy Is Deforesting North Carolina
Everyone I spoke to in North Carolina admitted they were slightly shocked that “tree-loving” and climate change-aware Britain, of all countries, had facilitated the biomass industry –adopting renewable energy accounting…
Drax To Build Wood Power Cargo Ship
As for Drax, they are in a bit of a hole, being totally reliant on government subsidies. If these are stopped, they don’t have a viable business; hence their desperation…
The Biomass Mirage: Unveiling the Reality Behind Enviva’s Downfall
Biomass is often touted as sustainable, yet this is a gross oversimplification. As the article points out,
ROSS CLARK: This polluting green sham has been mocking taxpayers for years
Neither has Drax given us carbon-free electricity – unless you turn a blind eye to a colossal bureaucratic sleight of hand.
The Dimming of Coal: The UK’s Emergency Power Reserves in Peril
…electricity supplies this winter would be less secure
The contradictory Green policies to limit CO2 emissions
…the scale of CO2 emissions from Biomass cancels out any potential CO2 emissions savings made from using Weather-Dependent “Renewables”.
Deforesting To Save The Planet? Europe’s Forests Shrinking as Wood Used For “Green” Energy
In the United Kingdom, the former Drax coal-fired power plant burns significant amounts of wood.
Drax Is Burning Virgin Forest
The BBC have finally caught up! There have been complaints for years about this:
Thanks, Guardian, For Questioning the Virtues of Biomass
A recent article in United Kingdom (UK)-based newspaper The Guardian gives fair coverage to the idea that biomass energy may not be as environmentally friendly as its advocates claim.
Burning Imported Wood in Drax Power Plant ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’, Says Kwarteng
The importing of wood to burn in Drax power station “is not sustainable” and “doesn’t make any sense”, the business and energy secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, told a private meeting of…
Researchers: Wood Burning Unsustainable, Huge Footprint…”Will Accelerate Warming For Decades”
The researchers say governments have been using “ false accounting” when calculating forest bioenergy’s emissions and that it “must end”.
Drax Subsidies Hit £893 Million Last Year
Subsidies for their biomass operation reached £893 million last year. All of this is added to our electricity bills:
Oops. No More Subsidies for Drax
Drax has been booted from an investment index of clean energy companies as doubts over the sustainability of its wood-burning power plant begin to mount within the financial sector.
Drax’s renewable energy plant is UK’s biggest CO2 emitter, analysis claims
Note how both Drax and the BEIS are simply sticking their fingers in their ears! “We don’t recognise these figures!!”
Drax To Face Court Over Wood Dust Pollution
It is of course deeply ironic that the green lobby has consistently attacked coal power because of pollution, and not just carbon dioxide emissions.
How To Handle 40 GW Offshore Wind (Or Not!)–Drax
Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT JANUARY 9, 2021 Guest Post By Joe Public Drax’s latest Quarterly Bulletin has a section on storing excess wind power: I…
Report Claim: In retrospect, the burning of wood in district heating plants has resulted in climate saving
ENERGY A new report from the University of Copenhagen shows that the burning of wood is significantly more climate friendly than coal and slightly more climate friendly than natural gas…
Environmental Disaster: Northern Europe Deforestation Up 49% Due To Effort To Meet “CO2 Targets”!
Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann calls it “the dumbest energy and environmental policy ever”. Now, finally, after years of being warned, Germany’s mainstream media are finally showing signs of waking up…
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