Great investigative reporting by the BBC on DRAX’s destruction of primary forest southeast of Prince George. Reporter Joe Crowley, with assistance from BC’s Ben Parfitt, shows that whole logs from primary forests are being used as feedstock for the manufacture of wood pellets that are then shipped thousands of kilometres to the UK to be burned for generation of “green” electricity in the UK.
As Conservation North’s Michelle Connolly says in the video, “That is absolutely insane. There’s no other word for it.”
(The BBC video is no longer available but the Fifth Estate covered this issue, too.)
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