The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.
Drax, Britain's biggest power station, generates electricity by burning millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets
Ecologist Michelle Connolly told Panorama the company was destroying forests that had taken thousands of years to develop. The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them. Drax told the BBC it had not cut down the forests itself and said it transferred the logging licences to other companies.
Panorama wanted to see if logs from primary forests cut down by logging companies were being transferred to Drax's Meadowbank pellet plant. The programme filmed a truck on a 120-mile round trip: leaving the plant, collecting piles of whole logs from the forest and then returning to the plant for their delivery.
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