Press Release
Drax Announcement
Prince George, B.C. (March 3, 2026) – Drax, a UK-based energy company that controls much of the trans-oceanic wood pellet trade has announced that its Yorkshire, England power plant will stop burning wood from BC within the next year. Drax owns seven plants in BC, which turn wood from primary forests into pellets that are shipped overseas to be burned for electricity.
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