World’s Largest Wood Power Station Approved in the UK will Threaten Climate and Forests
31 Mar 2011
Plans were approved on 14 March 2011 to convert RWE npower’s Tilbury B power station from coal to burning imported wood pellets – over 7 million tonnes per year. Biofuelwatch estimates that this would, if implemented, push the UK’s planned demand for biomass to around 60 million tonnes of wood per year (1). This is more than six times the UK’s annual wood production (2) and poses a major threat to forests, local as well as forest-dependent communities and to the …
