Laut Experten verbrennt Drax immer noch 250 Jahre alte Bäume aus Wäldern in Kanada | Drax | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say
Laut Experten verbrennt Drax immer noch 250 Jahre alte Bäume aus Wäldern in Kanada | Drax | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say
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To be fair he IS called Drax the destroyer for a reason
If you’re going to cut down old growth I’d think you could make much more money selling it as lumber than to a power plant burning it where the age doesn’t really matter. Even if you don’t care about the forests or environment this doesn’t make much sense financially.
If those are the logs in question in the article, I can assure you we don’t care here in Canada. Those are pecker pole pines, might even have beetle infestation. Fun story time! Decades ago Canada agreed to research the effects of the Asian pine beetle on forest for Europe. They cleared a massive area aside from a test forest in the middle of the clearing and released the beetles into the test forest. A few years later, they lost funding for the project and just left them. Now alot of our forests are ruined.
I work in environmental compliance, and was also a forest technologist for years in British Columbia. The amount of old growth trees scattered within a supposed low value single harvest area, aka “cut-block”, was very common.
Statistic volume sampling (timber cruising) averages the numbers and the output doesn’t usually represent the true number of mature trees over 250 years old in the harvest area. So numbers get boiled down and the harvest is scheduled to the statistical lumber grades. If the harvesting and loading process is sloppy thanks to grading the cut block as “pulp” quality, there’s a lot of good trees that are cut for no good reason. The amazing old growth scattered in that same harvest area basically become graded as a waste product.
Canada’s forests are at the mercy of such poor compliance management and lack of responsible forestry companies, it’s what drove me to get out of forestry and pursue adjacent environmental work.
BC Ministry of forests is calling them „waste products.“ There were large wildfires in 2023 that ravaged a lot of the area in that cutblock. Someone goes out and marks „waste products“ that are specific trees or features that should be removed. That could be underbrush or potential fuel reduction for future years. That’s how it should work anyway. „Waste“ evaluations take place after cuts, but also other substantive ecological changes, like wildfires. The narrative in the article is very alarmist, I’d argue modern forest management calls for some degree of harvest.
Drax makes pellets out of “waste wood” from Canada. Very misleading title (propaganda)
Not sure why Drax is being made to be the bad guys here. Surely it’s Canada. If this was a developing country maybe Drax was taking advantage and greasing some palms or turning a blind eye. It’s Canada, they should be appropriately regulating and managing their forests.
Drax is surely just going to a lumber company in Canada and buying some pellets to be delivered to their power plants. They aren’t picking out trees to cut down.
Didn’t Drax get sucked out of the airlock in the Moonraker movie? Why is he back?
Drax. The guardian.
Bruh. They trying to make me think of guardians of the galaxy