Drax i UK brenner pellets fra gamle trær - Skandale sies det

 Avsløring av BBC Panorama i 2024, se Kilde:

"Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood"

Det er snakk om å fyre med tre-pellets for å lage elektrisk kraft.
Da må pelletsen være "grønn" ... her brennes pellets fra "gammel skog" i Canada, som skipes til UK.

Innlegg i The Guardian 22. juni  kaller Drax sin virksomhet i UK en skandale:

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now

Tydeigvis utnyttes en tenkt miljøvennlig ordning med pellets med store gevinster for Drax.
Mens miljøet egentlig forverres ....

Om dette hadde jeg et innlegg i 2021 om samme sak, se Kilde:

"Pellets: Klimavennlig? Eller smutthull i klimaregskapet?

Det viser seg at den galskapen som ble påpekt i 2021 har fått fortsette uten kontroll ....

Skudeneshavn   22. juni 2025

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:

21. juni 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station

28. februar 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68381160

29. november 2021
https://innkast.blogspot.com/2021/11/pellets-klimavennlig.html

Pellets: Klimavennlig? Eller smutthull i klimaregskapet?

 Utvalgte utdrag fra artikkel i National Geographic:

" Europe burns a controversial ‘renewable’ energy source: trees from the U.S."

"As world leaders pledge more action on climate change, one so-called solution—burning trees for electricity—could undermine progress."

"The Sterman study estimated that the carbon “payback time” for wood-burning ranged from 44 to 104 years, depending on the type of forest. In the meantime, it said, power plants that burn wood are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, just as if they were burning coal."

"Second, wood burns less efficiently than coal or gas. Per kilowatt-hour (kWH) of electricity generated, it emits one and a half times the carbon dioxide of coal and three times that of natural gas."

"But like other governments, the U.K. does not count CO2 emissions from wood burning."

"Earlier this week, the EU’s climate policy chief, Frans Timmermans, told reporters that Europe needed to rely on biomass to meet clean energy goals." 

 

Skudeneshavn  29. november 2021

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:

11. november 2021
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/europe-burns-controversial-renewable-energy-trees-from-us 

10. november 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/10/eu-cop26-biomass-wood-emissions/