Daily Skeptics
By Sallust
As everyone must know now, in the net worth of rapidity to pureness, where the energy is transmitted to zero, only British consumers and voters are best invisible. It seems hundreds of acres of forest were torn apart in North Carolina to produce woody wood and then poured into a hunger furnace at Drax Power Station in the UK.
this mail There is a story:
About 280 acres of pristine and ecologically important wetland forests – a mixture of oak, maple, pecan, cypress and pine have disappeared, as if torn apart by the looted monster. All that was left was a huge pile of swampy water and crushed wood.
It is reminiscent of photos of land without people in the Battle of Somme – only a few large piles of logs were added, harvested from this remote northeast corner of North Carolina in November 2023 People with wood cannot even be reluctant to carry it with them and then rot.
According to scientists and environmentalists, it is nonsense that new trees will replace old trees that will soon be cut down:
They point out that when it comes to CO2, burning wood is dirtier than coal, and more importantly, in the case of hardwood forests, it takes decades or 70 years to absorb a new tree.2 The burning old man is lost.
It was a precious time, a warm planet, they said, without any idea of “sustainable” energy.
But that hasn't stopped the continuous British government, the world's most passionate timber pellet miracle, from providing billions of pounds of renewable energy subsidies to biomass operators.
Needless to say, the heroic leader of the Pioneer turned Britain into a net zero paradise for poor and frozen people to help drive this ultimate greening example:
This week, Energy Minister Ed Miliband became the latest politician to keep this surprising arrangement – opposition to describe Britain's “biggest green scam” as on the way when he approved the new The funding arrangement, which provides the largest Drax power station in North Yorkshire, provides about £2 billion in four years to keep the biomass burning.
Miliband, the government’s net-zero architect, has been appointed secretary of state for the newly formed ministry of energy and climate change since 2008, when his then Prime Minister Gordon Brown Involved in the Drax scandal.
While the new deal cuts Drax's subsidies in half, environmentalists have been hoping Drax will lose all its subsidies given all of its Starmer governments promise to address global warming.
Ironically, Drax shared its name with a James Bond villain who destroyed the Earth every year The equivalent of 27 million trees burned, as wood is even dirtier than coal – it is the largest carbon dioxide emitter in the UK, but produces nearly 12 million tons of Earth's warm gas last year.
this mail Tom Leonard checked the site in person with local guide:
There is no indication of new trees growing, or anyone trying to replant, even on a website recorded three years ago. My companion said, “This is zero for clear cuts – you keep showing them, which is really sad.” My companion asked me not to use his name as “these people can be mean.”
He used to go out regularly to find new transparent sites and then follow the van to take the wood and break the wood so he could say with confidence that it had gone to the Enviva Pellet plant.
Since importing large quantities of particles began in 2012, Drax has relied on the southern United States among most people, not only because it has huge forests near coastal ports, but also because these conservative states impose very little. Regulations, thus protecting woodland in the UK and other parts of Europe.
Traditionally, logging companies have cut only the largest trees because they are best suited to the building and furniture industries, while smaller trees can continue to grow. They also left ecologically unique varieties of “wetland hardwood”, such as Cypress, because they were too rough to be boards or tables.
Your position on climate change doesn’t matter. The story here is pure hypocrisy:
Everyone I talked to in North Carolina admits that their “love trees” and climate change awareness in all countries have promoted shock in the biomass industry, which can improve renewable energy accounting rules in the United States Loss or carbon emissions caused by burning wood.
Derb Carter, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Centre, told me that he had visited the UK several times to explain the situation to government officials.
“There is a hypothesis that must be how the United States manages forests to protect the public interest,” he said. The British were “surprised” when he explained that there was nothing in southern states like North Carolina.
He was disappointed by Ed Miliband's verdict on Drax, saying: “It's not a good decision for our climate, certainly not the forest we are here. ”
“We hope the new government can work very hard on this. It doesn't make sense when you basically deforest and drag them to the ocean to burn instead of coal.”
Mr Carter believes that environmental damage occurs outside sight (and therefore unexpectedly), which is very useful for winning the British default Drax.
“It’s much harder to burn your own forest than someone else’s,” he said. “If wood pellets just appear on the boat and you can’t see the trees being cut down and the forest being lost, people will be more tolerant.”
Just like buying solar panels and batteries from China, coal power plants that provide manufacturing energy there are conveniently invisible and allow China to gain barriers in the UK renewable energy sector.
The North Carolina story is worth reading.
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