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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year

Drax power plant in Yorkshire
Drax shares have soared to 20-year highs recently after better than expected earnings in 2025. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

The owner of Drax power plant has started reducing the amount of Canadian wood pellets it burns, and will stop burning trees from British Columbia entirely within the next year.

The FTSE 250 company Drax Group said its Canadian wood pellet plants, which once supplied millions of tonnes of biomass to be burnt in its North Yorkshire power plant, had cost the company almost £200m in financial impairments last year.

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