Drax has cash to make itself look good but don’t be fooled - Yorkshire Post Letters

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💬 'It releases more carbon into the atmosphere per unit of electricity than coal, leading Drax to be the UK’snumber one carbon polluter.'

It’s no surprise that Drax has cash to splash on advertorials when it receives over £2m in subsidies every day - money that comes out of our energy bills.

Burning wood is not renewable, and it never will be. It releases more carbon into the atmosphere per unit of electricity than coal, leading Drax to be the UK’snumber one carbon polluter. And the trees it burns release their stored carbon into the atmosphere and lose their ability to absorb carbon - a disaster for the climate.

 

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