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we then follow it back to the highway. this is the road. yeah, this is the pavement. and it all goes to the right, so we re all good. drax says it avoids damaging primary forest, but these logs are heading towards its pellet mill. ok, this should be the moment of truth. and he s braking. he s braking, he s braking, and he s indicating left. that s it. so clearly, we ve tracked the logs all the way back to the pellet plant. and we know these have come from a primary forest. and now they re destined to be made into pellets.
you see all the logs piled up, and there s a whole truckload to add to them here. there he goes, he s turning in. and straight onto the weigh scales. and you can see, welcome to drax meadowbank. you very publicly say that you avoid damage or disturbance to high carbon forests. there is no way you can make that statement. that s a lie. but we re not taking whole trees. we take the sawdust. no, no, you are. ..from the sawmills. i saw the truck with whole trees going from primary forest that had just been destroyed to your pellet plant. so let s talk about the business model for drax. no, no, can wejust engage with what i ve seen? you re saying you don t destroy primary forests but how are you not destroying primary forests when you take trees from primary forest that s been destroyed? so we take sawdust from the sawmills. our business model is not built around taking whole trees from forests as you described.
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we ve proved drax does damage primary forests. the company did it to get sawdust. but where do all these logs come from? so, we re sitting outside one of drax s pellet plants in a place called meadowbank. it sjust gone 10:00am, and i ve seen a big lorry with three lengths of logs, so it s a truck and a trailer, turn in to meadowbank. so it s clearly dropping off some rather big logs to the pellet plant. drax gets most of its logs from other companies. we re going to follow this truck to see if they re coming from a primary forest. so, this is our truck that we re following. he s gone north out of drax s pellet mill. and all we can do now is see where he goes. we follow the truck for 60 miles before it turns off