Drax in Yorkshire, who were buying lignite coal from the US for their biomass energy, have now scaled back or stopped it’s production. Probably because the Tories took away their financial incentive to look for “green” alternatives. The company did not respond to a request for further elucidation. It is quite obvious why, since the replanting of primary forest from which the chippings were acquired in no way, can replace what has been removed.
Threatened forests’ explores some hidden realities behind “green energy” in the EU.
Filmmaker Benoit Grimont made this documentary as a response to the development of a large scale biomass electricity installation in Gardanne, southern France. His film discovers that renewable energy – heavily supported by EU countries – may not be anything like as ‘green’ as we are led to believe.
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