Drax the Deforester

Dec 10

Drax power station in North Yorkshire, England, converted from coal to biomass

ISF returns to the airwaves on December 30 at 7 PM to challenge the extraction of living western US forests to make wood pellets for European bioenergy plants.

We will be joined by Gary Graham Hughes, Americas Program Coordinator at Biofuelwatch, to talk about the collaboration between British company Drax and Golden State Natural Resources to expand industrial-scale wood pellet production into California. At this scale, wood pellet technology has a proven track record of exacerbating climate change, harming rural communities, and devastating forest ecosystems throughout North America—undermining GSNR’s claims of protecting and enhancing the environment and quality of life in California’s rural communities.

Gray Shaw

Drax the Deforester

Fire Radio 10/7/24 Talk Show

The Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) was formed in 1991 to promote sustainable forest management that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic, and social well-being of forest-based communities in the Pacific Northwest.