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ROSS CLARK: This polluting green sham has been mocking taxpayers for years 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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Preposterously, the Government encouraged Drax, through tax incentives, to convert from burning coal to wood pellets because our net zero tsars regard this as a green way to generate electricity. That is in the face of overwhelming evidence that its chimneys spew out large clouds of CO2. According to a report by Chatham House in 2021, burning wood pellets at Drax is responsible for 13-16million tonnes of CO2 a year – equivalent to that produced by six to seven million petrol cars.
In fact, wood has a lower combustion efficiency than even coal, meaning that for every megawatt-hour of electricity produced, Drax spews out around 10 per cent more CO2 than a traditional coal-fired power station does. Were its carbon footprint to be entered on Britain's CO2 balance sheet, our national emissions would be between 2.8 per cent and 3.6 per cent higher than they are officially stated.
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