Name: Biomass burning debate with Duncan Brack and Chris Huhne
Uploaded: 2017-02-23T20:50:58+00:00
Duration: 8 min 24 s
Description: Britain has spent £450m subsidising power stations to burn American wood pellets that are as bad for the environment as the coal they replaced. That's the findings of a new report by a former Government adviser who questions years of environmental policy. Earlier we spoke to the author of the…

Britain has spent £450m subsidising power stations to burn American wood pellets that are as bad for the environment as the coal they replaced. That’s the findings of a new report by a former Government adviser who questions years of environmental policy. Earlier we spoke to the author of the report – the former Government adviser Duncan Brack and from Paris by his former boss – the former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne.