We dont take whole trees. You do. And how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. Logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. Theres no other word for it. This is britains biggest Single Source of electricity. The Drax Power Station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but its switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uks drive to cut Carbon Emissions. And that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. Theres just one problem. Burning wood pellets actually gives out more Greenhouse Gases than coal. Now, Carbon Dioxide is invisible to the human eye, so you cant actually see all of the carbon coming out of that chimney, but wood burning releases plenty of it, even more than coal. So were actually paying for this Power Station to kick out more Greenhouse Gases than before. And drax is in line to get billions more from the taxpayer. Actually coming out of those chimneys right now is mo
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stormont elections before christmas. keeping the lights on this winter a new scheme launches which will see customers offered discounts on their energy bills if they agree to use less electricity at peak times. with the key us midterm elections just four days away, donald trump drops his strongest hint yet that he plans another run for the white house. and now, in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, 0k? very, very, very probably. we are going to find the solutions to repair our planet. prince william has announced the finalists for his global environment awards, the earthshot prize. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using the migrant camps of northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the uk drugs industry on arrival. it comes as record numbers of migrants are us
support to give to ukrainians in the long term. with the former business and long term capital correspondent in the washington post anchor. hello welcome to the programme. for the past five years, the conservative party has at times, appeared to stray into labour territory. when theresa may came to power in 2016, the conservatives she said would be the party of the ordinary working class . the 2017 manifesto promised to stand up for the weak , restore fairness, there would not be, she said, untrammelled free markets . then came borisjohnson, nominally of the right, but with a plan to redistribute wealth to the north, and on the back of what became, post pandemic the highest tax take in 70 years. today, in her first prime minister s questions, liz truss returned to something that looked much more, like the conservative orthodoxy of old. i m on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing. that s why we will reverse the ni increase and why we will keep corporation