Representation by Jessica Upton
- Date submitted
- 2 September 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We are in a climate crisis NOW. We can see the effects of it already across the world. England has got off lightly so far but it won’t escape unless we lead in carbon emission reduction & this proposal simply isn’t that. You will have received much more technical eloquent objections to the proposal than mine. I urge you to read them and put the world population’s survival over the profits of Drax. Thank you Drax burns over 8 million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year – an amount equivalent to 155% the UK’s entire annual wood production. A lot of this wood is sourced from the clearcutting of highly biodiverse forests in the Southeastern USA and Baltic States, and even from oldgrowth forests in Canada. Even with carbon capture, burning millions of tonnes of wood from trees fuels the degradation and destruction of forest ecosystems and can never be a ‘climate solution’. However, all available evidence suggests that Drax, or for that matter other energy companies, do not have the technical know-how to capture large amounts of CO2 from biomass burning.