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DRAX Still Sourcing from Old Growth Forests in BC

msmk89 — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:57:34 +0000

Drax Group Plc is a UK-based company that operates the world’s biggest biomass power station, and is also the world’s second biggest pellet producer, after Enviva. Drax burns pellets from its own production at Drax power station in England, and sells pellets to other companies, mostly in Japan. Drax owns seven pellet mills in British Columbia (BC) after acquiring the province’s largest pellet…

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Pellet Logging Loopholes

msmk89 — Mon, 23 May 2022 03:09:34 +0000

Photo: inland temperate rainforest with a past western hemlock looper (native insect) outbreak in the Goat River area east of Prince George, BC From Justin Castanoso’s latest article in Mongabay: “In a surprising and unprecedented vote this week, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee recommended the scaling back of the EU’s existing subsidies incentivizing the burning of wood…

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Pellet Company’s Anti-Competitive Practices in BC

msmk89 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:38:45 +0000

Matthew Boswell Commissioner of Competition Competition Bureau of Canada Place du Portage I 50 Victoria Street, Room C-114 Gatineau,QC K1A0C9 Dear Mr. Boswell, We write today to formally request that the Competition Bureau of Canada investigate the Drax Group’s dominant position in the wood pellet industry in British Columbia, Alberta and Canada more generally. The company has monopolized…

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Why is BC allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets?

msmk89 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:21:31 +0000

Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group has confirmed that BC is currently allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to stop this practice immediately. “These forests are being ground into pellets to be shipped to Europe and Asia for electricity generation. This is fueling the climate crisis and is short-sighted in this time of…

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Deny license transfer A17007

msmk89 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:43:00 +0000

The BC government is receiving public comment until Wednesday, March 3rd on a proposed forest license transfer in the Forest Nelson Timber Supply Area from Canfor to Peak Renewables. The transfer will enable the creation of a pellet plant that will use as its “feedstock” boreal forest that has never been logged before. There has been no official announcement from the BC government that this…

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Logging Rainforest for Pellets

msmk89 — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:12:27 +0000

Prince George, BC – A northern forest advocacy group recently encountered pink flagging indicating a planned cutblock in the globally-rare inland rainforest just 45 minutes east of Prince George. “Finding flagging isn’t new. What was different here is that it had the name of a local pellet company on it,” explains Sean O’Rourke, a field scout with Conservation North. Mr. O’Rourke…

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