…“The decision to stop feeding the Yorkshire plant with BC pellets will change almost nothing on the ground in BC, unfortunately,” explains Conservation North director Michelle Connolly. “BC pellet mills mainly serve Japan, which has taken about 75% of the pellet export share over the last few years. This trend continues and will get worse if Asian markets expand.” … In 2022 BBC Panorama and CBC Fifth Estate investigations revealed that Drax was logging old growth and other natural forest in B.C. Throughout 2023, Drax obtained logs and chipped wood from the rarest old growth forests in the province. ….The BC government has a crediting system in place whereby logging companies get an equivalent volume of wood for every load of pellet-grade logs harvested and delivered to Drax. …According to Connolly: “As long as Drax is here, we lose the same amount of wildlife habitat whether our forests end up burning in the UK or elsewhere.”