Representation by Lesley Whybrow
- Date submitted
- 25 August 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I strongly object to this scheme. Using wood to generate energy is not renewable. Although theoretically new trees can be planted to replace those that have been burnt, in practice that isn't happening at anything like the necessary scale and it takes time for the trees to reach the necessary size. Harvesting wood for burning at Drax is devastating forests in the USA and elsewhere and there are significant carbon emissions involved in transporting the wood to the UK. Trees are themselves a natural form of carbon capture so it makes no sense to have to build a carbon capture system (with all the carbon emissions that entails) to make up for the fact that we are burning the trees in the first place. Please read page 13 of this report for more on this [Redacted]. As the report says, the technology on which BECCS relies has not been proven at scale. [Redacted] As this link shows, BECCS will itself require a considerable amount of energy to run and so this will reduce the output of the power station. Please refuse this application