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Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air. In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near mills producing wood pellets say that they’re getting sick.

"t’s about what Drax is putting into the air. Now people are making a ruckus. People are starting to open their eyes."

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Keeping an eye on the forest biomass export industry - Stand.earth Late last year, we released a new investigation into the Canadian sourcing practices of international energy giant Drax, which produces wood pellets in British Columbia (B.C.) to export overseas. The ...

"with our latest investigation into the forest biomass export industry, we see what some might prefer remain hidden – old growth logs purchased by Drax." @stand.earth #CutCarbonNotForests

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Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I’m sick of your lies
and your pollution, too. 💔

“Valentine’s Day is supposed to be for love for the heart, but mine is filled with congestion from the pollution in Gloster.”
– Carmella Causey

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A Drax Manager question why the company was ruling out sourcing from primary and old growth forests in Canada.

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We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

There are many more land-efficient ways to produce #energy than growing #biofuels. Crops convert less than 1% of sunlight into biomass; #solarpanels convert around 20%. And using #electricity is more efficient than using liquid fuels: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/biofuels-v... #landuse #biomass

Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions In Subsidies? Drax Faces A Reckoning Policymakers are rethinking biomass as new research shows wood pellets may increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them. The focus is now on subsidies.

Burning wood pellets for power receives billions in subsidies, but according to scientists, it may not be clean energy. Companies like Drax are clear-cutting forests and trees for energy and harming communities in the process. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

TFW the dirtiest energy technology takes all the low-carbon subsidies.

Dirty biomass burning. Forest destruction.

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Drax hit as Japan pivots away from burning wood pellets for energy Phaseout of generous subsidies threatens profitability of new projects

Drax prospects hit as Japan turns away from biomass.

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A BECCS project at BECCS could need £30 billion in subsidies

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‘Everything is worse since Drax came here’: US residents say wood-pellet plant harming their town Residents of Gloster, Mississippi, are suing plant that exports wood pellets to UK and Europe. Company says it is reducing emissions

Residents of Gloster, Mississippi say Drax - UK biomass burner - is harming their health.

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Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed? Despite billions in investment, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say

“The results are obviously underwhelming. It just calls into question the viability of all CCS projects at scale,”

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Foreign Energy Companies Have No Home in Our Forests | Opinion Domestic air-quality policy should reduce, not worsen, pollution for the very people it is meant to protect.

Foreign (UK) energy companies are harming forests and communities in the US.

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New data from Ember shows that the cost of BECCS at Drax would be more than the UK's entire budget for carbon capture.

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YouTube video by Matt Adam Williams 2024 Biomass Projection Long

The UK Government is paying Drax to make climate change worse.

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Drax carbon removal project could exceed entire carbon capture budget - Energy Live News Drax’s BECCS project may cost £30 billion in subsidies, exceeding the UK’s full carbon capture budget

A carbon capture project at Drax would blow the UK's entire carbon capture budget, and then some.

As the Chancellor is delivering her Budget, can the UK really afford £30 billion on Drax's tree burning?

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Wood pellet power is under the microscope like never before Pressure on the biomass sector is mounting in the UK, South Korea, Japan, and the US.

Woody biomass power is under scrutiny like never before.

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Holzenergie laut UBA nicht klimaneutral – Branchenverband fassungslos Das Umweltbundesamt spricht der Holzenergie-Nutzung die Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaneutralität ab. Der Fachverband Holzenergie ist alarmiert und auf 180.

To translate: German Government Environment Agency says burning wood biomass *IS NOT* carbon neutral.

"electricity and heat from wood cannot be classified without restriction as renewable energy within the meaning of the Paris climate targets"

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Drax Power Station is *STILL* burning 250-year old trees from forests in Canada, reveals @stand.earth

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YouTube video by Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC) The Forests Burning to Keep Asia's Lights On

Biomass isn't just a problem in the UK.

Here's what burning trees in power stations is doing to forests in Indonesia. 🔥🌳

Awful impacts. Brilliant video.

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Today a new report is published showing that just 5 economies spent nearly $250 billion on biomass subsidies over 22 years.

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It’s time to Cut Subsidies, Not Forests and to #CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass

It’s time to STOP subsidising #BigBadBiomass that is destroying forests, polluting people’s air, and making climate change worse.

Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!

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MDEQ should uphold Gloster air quality decision MDEQ to hear appeal of decision on Drax plant in Gloster.

Residents of Gloster, Mississippi are calling for an end to Drax’s pollution of their air.

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Rally to protest Drax’s request for more emissions Gloster residents and others opposed to a proposal for the state to allow Drax’s wood pellet plant in Amite County to produce more emissions will hold a rally in Jackson next week.

Meanwhile residents of Gloster, Mississippi have rallied to protest against Drax's request to pollute more.

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Today Cut Carbon Not Forests stands alongside communities in the southeast US as they resist Drax attempts to seek a permit to increase their air pollution of their communities.

This is driven by UK biomass demand.

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MDEQ should uphold Gloster air quality decision MDEQ to hear appeal of decision on Drax plant in Gloster.

A call by Dr Krystal Martin for the Mississippi Department for Environmental Quality to reject a bid by Drax to increase their allowances to pollute communities' air.

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A new report by European Environment Agency:

"An increase in the demand for wood products and for bioenergy puts further pressure on forests; this can have negative effects on their role as carbon sinks and on biodiversity"

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Calls grow for UK's biggest renewable power station boss to be sacked Britain's biggest 'renewable' power station which is allegedly as 'toxic as working for tobacco' should sack its boss.

Working for Drax is equivalent to working for big tobacco - says US hedge fund manager.

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Energy giant Drax probed by watchdog over wood sourcing, following whistleblower claims The probe intensifies scrutiny of Drax, which is subsidised by bill payers to burn wood to create electricity - an energy source deemed "important" but whose environmental benefits are disputed.

Drax probed by financial watchdog - more questions for the energy giant that burns trees.

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Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) is a leading global biomass certification scheme offering assurances to end users (especially nations in the EU and Asia) that biomass (especially wood pellets fo...

Certifying biomass from the forest as "sustainable" is meaningless, finds new report.

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