Ed Miliband

UK Secretary of State for Energy, Ed Miliband is under pressure from MPs to suspend subsidies worth £2m a day paid to the owner of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire after court documents cast doubt on the company’s sustainability claims. …The politicians said they were “deeply concerned” that Drax may have been given “substantial billpayer subsidy” while the company “may have knowingly and consistently concealed information” about the green credentials of its wood sources. …The letter revealed that senior executives at Drax had privately raised concerns about the accuracy of its public sustainability claims, after allegations that it was burning wood from some of Canada’s most environmentally important woodlands. …Drax said: “These allegations were investigated by our regulator, Ofgem, who concluded that they did not find any evidence that we had been issued with [subsidy certificates] incorrectly. …They also found no evidence of deliberate misreporting.”