Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year

Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia's most environmentally important forests

The owner of Drax power plant has started reducing the amount of Canadian wood pellets it burns, and will stop burning trees from British Columbia entirely within the next year.

The FTSE 250 company Drax Group said its Canadian wood pellet plants, which once supplied millions of tonnes of biomass to be burnt in its North Yorkshire power plant, had cost the company almost 200m in financial impairments last year.