On Friday, the Lifescape Project rewilding charity, backed by the Partnership for Policy Integrity, filed an application for a judicial review over the Government’s Biomass Strategy with the High Court. It alleged that the policies, a key part of the plans to get towards Net Zero, are unlawful and will undermine the country’s ability to hit its climate targets.
The company’s North Yorkshire biomass power plant is set to use BECCS technology if it receives the desired level of backing from the Government. Drax has received billions in green energy subsidies from the Government in recent years, but has recently come under scrutiny over allegations that its supply of pellets is not sustainable and comes from healthy trees in protected forests in North America, something the company denies.