A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world’s most precious forests, the BBC has found.
Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were “no go areas”.
It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm’s Yorkshire site billions more in environmental subsidies funded by energy bill payers.
There is plenty of this nonsense going on, like the increasingly farcical carbon credit system. Fiddling with the numbers is easier and cheaper than making real change, so that’s what is being done.