The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S.. Based on dubious carbon accounting, Drax, which runs the U.K.’s biggest power plant, is rapidly expanding its wood pellet operations across America.
All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology.
In 2014, an industrial facility producing wood pellets opened so close to her house in Gloster, Mississippi, that she could overhear conversations between managers and staffers as they worked and smell the fumes the plant pumped into the air.
Dobbins, a 59-year-old mother of two, relies on an oxygen tank to breathe, as do her sister and her brother-in-law, who also live in the town. Her husband Neal depended on an oxygen tank as well, but passed away in 2017, just as Dobbins was experiencing an acute health crisis that led to her diagnosis with heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. She tears up when discussing how her own hospitalization left her unable to care for her husband of 36 years before he died.
“I was on life support,” said Dobbins, who wore a tracheotomy tube with a speaking valve. “I couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk. And through all this, my husband was sick and I didn’t even know it.”
The company that owns the plant, the U.K.-based power giant Drax Group, originally claimed that the pellet mill would bring hundreds of millions of dollars of investments to the local economy and touted the possibility of growing renewable power within the state.
So, they're doing everything they can to shut down coal, oil, and natural gas power plants (while also obstructing nuclear), but burning wood for energy is taking off?
Make it make sense.
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They're the big guys at the top, they are good at subjecting the powerless under the law while they go ahead breaking the same law. This is tyranny. The only solution is to take away that which they've stolen from the everyone else: the money. Thank goodness for bitcoin.
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I seem to recall Marty Bent talking about this well over a year ago. The absurdity of it all is to much.
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One more example of how large industries that destroy the environment leave pollution and destruction in their wake just to obtain their own benefit without caring about anything or anyone.
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Its weird that a UK owned company would be operating in the USA. Especially something as critical as electricity.
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That's fiat at work.
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