Hello Friend,

Imagine for a moment that you would burn wood to make energy.

Here in the 21st century, this quaintly anachronistic notion seems
ridiculous.

But it's true and it's happening on a huge industrial scale and it is
taking mountains of Canadian lumber to do it.

The company's name is DRAX. It operates a thermal electricity plant in the
United Kingdom fuelled almost entirely by wood pellets and is the biggest
of its kind in the world. This converted coal plant in Yorkshire produces
12% of Britain's "renewable" electricity: labelled as "renewable" because
trees grow. But they are burning wood to make energy.

Canadian wood is turned into pellets on a massive scale at plants
throughout Western Canada. DRAX now controls a majority of this pellet
production in the west, and stands accused of using entire trees, and not
just wood waste, to make these pellets that are shipped and burned. The
company benefits from 6 billion pounds of British taxpayer dollars to do
so. Their furnaces belch out massive amounts of CO2 and contribute to the
pollution that is choking off our skies and adding to the on-rush of
climate change.

The federal Competition Bureau is being asked to investigate, and the Green
Party of Canada is joining that call for Canadians to come together and
demand an end to this medieval practice. This an awful example of industry
ruining the environment and it has to stop.

Join with us as we fight for better sources of energy. "Renewable" here is
a mask for licence to pollute. "Sustainable" should be the goal and we are
doing everything we can to convince industry and governments to start
acting like the future is important.

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DANA TAYLOR
Interim Executive Director

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