Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show

Company publicly denied allegations that primary forests were being cut down to fuel UK's biggest power plant

Senior executives at Drax raised concerns internally about the validity of the energy company's sustainability claims while it publicly denied allegations that it was cutting down environmentally important forests for fuel, court documents have revealed.

Britain's biggest power plant assured ministers and civil servants of the company's green credentials as it scrambled to defend itself against claims in a BBC Panorama documentary that it had burned wood sourced from old-growth" forests in Canada.