ROSS CLARK: This polluting green sham has been mocking taxpayers for years
AUGUST 3, 2023
tags: drax
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
More on the environmental obscenity called Drax from Ross Clark:
Are we really surprised that the operators of Drax power station deprived taxpayers of £639million last year by – legally – gaming the subsidy system?
For years, the North Yorkshire power station has been draining our pockets, while we have been led to believe that its woodchip-fired boilers – which burn wood harvested mostly from North American forests – are providing us with a clean, carbon-free source of energy.
Since 2016, we have collectively bankrolled Drax with £1.4billion of subsidies, but what have we got to show for the money? Certainly not clean air –Drax continues to spew out sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and soot just as it did in its days as Britain’s biggest coal-fired station, something belied by the photographs on its website of crystal-clear skies, cutesy graphics on ‘sustainable bioenergy’ and talk of our ‘renewable future’. Neither has Drax given us carbon-free electricity – unless you turn a blind eye to a colossal bureaucratic sleight of hand.
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