Why wood from B.C. forests is burning to fuel U.K. energy needs - The Fifth Estate
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- Amid the ongoing fight to protect British Columbia’s forests, The Fifth Estate investigates how the province has become a leading exporter of wood pellets that are burned to fuel energy needs in the U.K., Japan and South Korea. The industry is billed as “green” and “renewable,” but many scientists disagree and activists say Canada has made a mistake in supporting the industry.
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producer/director
HARVEY CASHORE
LYNETTE FORTUNE
written by
LYNDSAY DUNCOMBE
editing
ALICIA LEE
editing support
LORETTA HICKS
senior videographer
JOHN BADCOCK csc
JONATHAN CASTELL
additional cinematography
ANDY HINCENBERGS
GIAN PAOLO MENDOZA
MIKE ZIMMER
JASON POPE
Satellite Imagery
AIRBUS DS / EARTHRISE
USGS / NASA LANDSAT / EARTHRISE
archival material
AXE DRAX GROUP
BC LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
CONSERVATION NORTH
CPAC
DESTINATION BRITISH COLUMBIA
DRAX
EXTINCTION REBELLION NORTH
FACEBOOK
GETTY IMAGES
PINNACLE PELLET
POND5
SCIENCE CHANNEL MEGA SHIPPERS
THE MOTHER TREE MOVEMENT
WOOD PELLET ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
CZcams
special thanks
THE PULITZER CENTRE RAINFOREST INVESTIGATIONS NETWORK
additional thanks
KUANG KENG KUEK SER
EDWARD BOYDA
CALEB KRUSE
GOLDEN BALL
graphic designer
JAKE BOONE
graphic director
JEFF GOLDHAR
visual research
LESLIE MORRISON
media management
MATT GUERIN
post audio
RON SEARLES
RICK STARKS
colourist
SCOTT McINTYRE
rollout producer
LEANNE STEPNOW
social media producer
AVNEET DHILLON
digital producer
JANET DAVISON
theme music
STEVE D'ANGELO
project manager
VICTOR KERR
associate director
CARMEN SMITH
packaging editor
ALESSIA PROTOMANNI
resource coordinators
MEGAN BEECKMANS
CHAHAT DESAI
SAM NAR
coordinating associate director
RHONDA KIRKPATRICK
senior producer
ALLYA DAVIDSON
executive producer
DIANA SWAIN
original broadcast
OCTOBER 6, 2022
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I live on Vancouver Island, it was a life long dream. What I didn't realize was how the island was 90+% owned by logging companies. 😳
This is despicable. Somehow these Biomass plants have become clean energy, but cutting down some the last untouched rain forest for power, is a terrible mistake.
I am in the US. We all get mad with Brazil for destroying the Amazon but we are not aware of what is going on in our neighborhood (country).
Drax power station stand on top of the Selby coalfield, Millions upon millions of tons of unmined coal, The main modernised coal mine nearby, the last in the UK, closed a couple of years ago.
Very disturbing crisis. Thank you Fifth Estate for revealing this horrific devastation of Canada’s forests.
I live in northern BC, and the government has totally sold out the province. The trucks leave this area by the hundreds, every day of the year,,,the clear-cut areas are horrendous, and no local forest industry is left, from the strong forest economy that used to flourish here. As well, the wildlife has vanished,,,its a crime.
I am from the UK and the Canadian government needs to ban logging. Recycle as much paper as possible and end the logging culture.
I was planning to get a pellet stove this winter. After watching this report I changed my mind. The big question is what the government going to do to stop this massacre of our forests.
those "piles of waste" should be future soil, not future carcinogens and greenhouse gas
Who is putting pressure in the government to stop these corporations? We cannot just talk. We have to stop this crime .
Been a pellet user for 28 years. In the heart of BC. Have watched one pellet plant after another being bought up first by Pinnacle then by Britain. Now we buy our pellets from Washington? Go figure. Cost of this energy source is up 500% over the past 28 years. Little guy gets screwed again.
Shame on you Diane Nicholas shame on you
Around 60+ years ago the trees that my uncle would let us cut for firewood would be trees that were dead, dying or malformed/leaning etc..
Bad politicians create bad policies and bad decisions.
Fifth estate thank you , never knew this , just wow ,thinking this would be a no no ! Beautiful British Columbia 😢
Don't think we in the UK are happy about it either. Quite frankly it's ludicrous.
What a nightmare world we are in.
Michael Moore's documentary "Planet of the Humans" attempted to call attention to this "greenwashing" he was criticized by "climate experts" . Drax is the company perhaps named after "Hugo Drax".
I really hope this brings more Canadians and BCites on the side of the land defenders & warriors fighting for our old growth forests in BC. Thank you to the people of the UK who are also fighting 🇨🇦🖖🏻🖤
This what many "environmental organizations" advocate for, biomass. It's ridiculous