Christopher Booker reviews the madness of the decision to convert the UK's biggest power station from coal to biomass.
As from next month, Drax will embark on a £700 million switch away from burning coal for which it was designed, in order to convert its six colossal boilers to burn millions of tons a year of wood chips instead.
Most of these chips will come from trees felled in forests covering a staggering 4,600 square miles in the USA, from where they will be shipped 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain.
I know of several people who have bought home generators. Booker's article may push a few more that way.