Eric Worrall essay
A terrible mess of impoverished workers, alleged pollution, state subsidies and a large portion of greenwashing.
Energy secretary in New Drax Greenwashing Row involved
From Calum Muirhead
Updated: 06:51 Aest, April 27, 2025
The Minister of Energy Ed Miliband was accused by US activists to participate in the pollution of a city in Mississippi by being harmful to a British power company that claims the health of the residents.
The Drax Group operates a power plant in Selby, North Yorkshire, which generates electricity by burning wood pellets. Many of them come from forests in the United States and are shipped to Great Britain.
Activists from Gloster in Mississippi, in which Drax operates a wood pellet factory, say that the pollution of its plant has caused health problems for people nearby, including heart disease, cancer and respiratory problems.
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Nevertheless, the company received billions of green energy from the government. In February, Miliband stood up to hand over a taxpayer of more than £ 2 billion over four years.
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Read more: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-14650335/energy-secretary-embroiled-new-dreenwashing
There is a good distance to unpack.
According to the article, Drax has paid fines of millions of dollars in recent years. The local US officials recently rejected permission for the draw to increase emissions.
The city of Gloster in Mississippi is a low income that mainly has black community of 897 people. Drax employs around 49 people.
If Drax is forced to pull out, around 49 jobs are lost in a community where jobs are scarce. However, the green financing provided by the British government helps to spread pollution in a vulnerable community, and is part of the Green Madness, which is the impoverished British people.
Is environmental pollution really problems with the Drax Wood chip plant in Gloster? Who knows – nowadays it is difficult to recognize the difference between fake activist pollution standards and pollution that cause a real problem. But it seems possible that someone was careful before waste and that the wooden creation in this scale creates a lot of waste.
What a mess. I am glad that it is not my job to clarify it.
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