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more than 25 violations took place after drax took ownership. most relate to air pollution. those who did this research say the number of breaches is significant. i would say so, especially given the repeated nature of many of these offences. given that locals in some of these towns are already very concerned about the specific air pollutants that drax is breaching, sometimes two times more than they're allowed, in one case three times over the limit. we see a lot of repeated violations here. inspectors seeing the same thing again and again. why can't those separately rather than grouping issues together? yeah, that was something that we put a lot of thought into and we were actually much more conservative than lawyers would be about this. when you've seen similar cases in the us, the violations often get into the thousands because they will count every hour or every day that violations continued, whereas we just looked at every event. given that, 189 we think is a pretty large number. not everyone would agree the scale of these environmental breaches is egregious. if you lo
more than 25 violations took place after drax took ownership. most relate to air pollution. those who did this research say the number of breaches is significant. i would say so, especially given the repeated nature of many of these offences. given that locals in some of these towns are already very concerned about the specific air pollutants that drax is breaching, sometimes two times more than they're allowed, in one case three times over the limit. we see a lot of repeated violations here....
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from 2021, the drax group purchased pinnacle and additional mills. i've seen the smoke columns coming out of those plants. the one in houston, the column of smoke reaches smithers, and you can see it in the wintertime, in particular coming up the valley and adding to our air pollution issues. now all sources of energy have some impact on the environment. but drax has been in the spotlight because it has received hundreds of millions of pounds of green subsidies annually. payments given to the biomass industry. and funded in part by bill payers. earlier this year, the bbc reported drax burned timber from rare forests in canada, places it had claimed were no go areas. now newsnight has been given data by land and climate review about the next step in drax's supply chain, these pellet mills. and it shows that since drax started sourcing wood pellets from them in 2012 across ten mills, they've breached canadian environmental regulations 189 times. more than 25 violations took place after drax took ownership. most relate to air pollution. those who did th
from 2021, the drax group purchased pinnacle and additional mills. i've seen the smoke columns coming out of those plants. the one in houston, the column of smoke reaches smithers, and you can see it in the wintertime, in particular coming up the valley and adding to our air pollution issues. now all sources of energy have some impact on the environment. but drax has been in the spotlight because it has received hundreds of millions of pounds of green subsidies annually. payments given to the...
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and i'm for all saying to richard drax, the first person to pay reparations should be you. why don't we get the uk state to say, okay, instead of asking the public purse to pay, let's seize richard drax's assets as as one of the wealthiest mp, as one of the wealthiest mps in parliament, whose entire net worth is based upon colonial history and who was trying to sell his plantation in barbados. his the plantation he inherited. >> what about people who've got no links? what what about people who've got no links whatsoever? would you would you would you be would you agree with that then, martin? >> would you agree with that? would you agree with seizing richard drax's assets and using that money to repay the victims of the descendants of victims of slavery instead of the public purse? because that seems to be not not without not without a full. you're making a not without a full analysis for me of where that money came from . of where that money came from. >> we know and richard and that would be that would be a matter of him to decide or a court of law what i'm talking about
and i'm for all saying to richard drax, the first person to pay reparations should be you. why don't we get the uk state to say, okay, instead of asking the public purse to pay, let's seize richard drax's assets as as one of the wealthiest mp, as one of the wealthiest mps in parliament, whose entire net worth is based upon colonial history and who was trying to sell his plantation in barbados. his the plantation he inherited. >> what about people who've got no links? what what about...