A report by The Times has outlined how Drax attempted to ‘silence’ an employee, after she raised concerns that it had misled British energy regulator Ofgem about its true sustainability credentials. In a London-held tribunal, Rowaa Ahmar, who was head of Drax’s public affairs and policy team, claimed she was unfairly dismissed, months after expressing concerns to executives about the claims of utilising sustainable wood. Rowaa Ahmar said the biomass giant tried to ‘deliberately conceal’ the truth about its operations. A 2022 BBC documentary alleged the company’s felling of old-growth forests in Canada. …In legal submissions, Ahmar said that, in the weeks after the BBC documentary’s broadcast, she received information that increasingly showed Drax had been ‘misleading the public, government and its regulator’. According to Ahmar, she began making whistlelowing complaints, including a letter to Drax chief executive Will Gardiner.