A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world’s most precious forests, the BBC has found.

Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were “no go areas”.

It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm’s Yorkshire site billions more in environmental subsidies funded by energy bill payers.

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    9 months ago

    Rishi, you can’t creative accounting your way out a climate catastrophe. The CO2 bill still gets paid and the working class will eat you if there’s no food left.

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      9 months ago

      Oh, he’ll be gone before it gets too bad. So no need to worry about Rishi.

      My money’s on California. House near the Beckhams and Prince Harry.