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Why Is The Drax Power Station Counted As A Renewable Source Of Energy?
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It uses diesel ships to transport vandalised forests to burn, Jesus on a bicycle.
It's clearly anything but carbon neutral and to be counted as such is a travesty. Can anyone shed any light on this?
It's clearly anything but carbon neutral and to be counted as such is a travesty. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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I can't claim to know the answers you seek, but their page has links that may help.
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they claim to be carbon neutral. Yeah trees are renewable, technically, eventually so is coal! It's not what I would call renewable and how can it be carbon neutral? Most of the wood comes from Canada/US massive processing and transport energy costs not to mention that one replacement tree planted (is that true and verified?) is not equivalent to a mature one chopped down is it. Not to mention the decimated forest land the process leaves behind. If anyone can come up with a valid defence and justification for this madness I'm all ears.
where do they claim to be carbon neutral? not on their website https:/
Well they do also use coal at drax but lets take the Biomass in isolation. https:/
"Drax’s burning of wood biomass has been found to produce higher levels of CO2 from smokestacks than its coal did, but these combustion emissions are allowed to be counted as ‘zero’ under international carbon accounting principles and EU and UK law, on the basis that any deforestation should be counted elsewhere, at the forest level." - they claim they will be carbon negative by 2030 but whatever their claim actually is the figures they are allowed to use and what they are allowed to omit make the whole thing a massive sham. "But scientists call into question the assumptions behind the carbon accounting: that forests are actually expanding, including because they are harvested, and that the ‘carbon payback’ from forest growth over decades will happen in time for urgent climate pathways. The climate impact of removing wood depends on the type – sawmill residues or logging by-product that would be burned anyway is not the same as the removal of trees or disturbance of soil which would otherwise capture carbon. However, felling trees for biomass energy can deplete forest carbon sinks." - essentially they have this "carbon accounting" method that is basically fraudulent accounting.
"Drax’s burning of wood biomass has been found to produce higher levels of CO2 from smokestacks than its coal did, but these combustion emissions are allowed to be counted as ‘zero’ under international carbon accounting principles and EU and UK law, on the basis that any deforestation should be counted elsewhere, at the forest level." - they claim they will be carbon negative by 2030 but whatever their claim actually is the figures they are allowed to use and what they are allowed to omit make the whole thing a massive sham. "But scientists call into question the assumptions behind the carbon accounting: that forests are actually expanding, including because they are harvested, and that the ‘carbon payback’ from forest growth over decades will happen in time for urgent climate pathways. The climate impact of removing wood depends on the type – sawmill residues or logging by-product that would be burned anyway is not the same as the removal of trees or disturbance of soil which would otherwise capture carbon. However, felling trees for biomass energy can deplete forest carbon sinks." - essentially they have this "carbon accounting" method that is basically fraudulent accounting.
perhaps a Graniad report would suit you more:
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"The plans are being pioneered by Drax Group, which claims that burning wood pellets is carbon-neutral because trees absorb as much carbon dioxide when they grow as they emit when they are burnt."
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"The plans are being pioneered by Drax Group, which claims that burning wood pellets is carbon-neutral because trees absorb as much carbon dioxide when they grow as they emit when they are burnt."
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