Stop burning trees! Go for nuclear and gas to go green
Friday 5th November 2021
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London, 5 November – Net Zero Watch today is calling on Boris Johnson to stop the obscene burning of millions of trees in British power stations and adopt a gas and nuclear strategy already gaining pace in Europe and other parts of the world.
The burning of trees in British power stations such as Drax, which consumes 7 million tonnes of pellets (25 million trees equivalent) per year has been revealed today as a worse carbon dioxide emitter than the coal which it replaced, as well as costing consumers £800 million a year in subsidy.
A ground-breading investigation by the Daily Telegraph in Latvia, where Drax sources some of its trees, has confirmed what experts have long argued, that the biomass industry’s claims of long-term replanting of trees are extremely doubtful, meaning that the higher-than-coal emissions of biomass are not offset, as well as making a mockery of the Prime Minister’s COP26 flagship promise to tackle global deforestation.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/stop-burning-trees-go-for-nuclear-and-gas-to-go-green/
