Drax Power Station near Selby
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A MULTIMILLION-POUND fine handed to power station operator Drax is no more than a “drop in the ocean” compared with the billions that the company is demanding in new subsidies, campaigners said today.
Drax, whose plant in North Yorkshire is Britain’s largest carbon emitter, receives government subsidies for burning biomass wood chips, a fuel source that it claims is “carbon neutral.”
But energy watchdog Ofgem fined the firm £25 million after it failed to accurately report the type of wood it uses and whether it is sustainable.
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As Ontario burns, campaigners are demanding action – not more pipelines, says DAVE McKEE
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
