Biofuels cut threatens farmers

A new power crisis threatens to leave the country short of energy – and destroy the livelihoods of Yorkshire farmers.
The Government is set to slash the amount of biofuels – specially grown crops – that can be burned at Drax power station, near Selby, prompting warnings from campaigners that power supplies will be compromised and the environment damaged.

The decision will also be a massive blow for farmers in the region who have diversified into growing crops such as willow coppice for burning. Biofuels are burned with coal at Drax and other fossil-fuel power stations because they reduce carbon emissions.
But the Government wants to cut limits on burning biofuels by 60 per cent as part of a drive to force the power industry to turn increasingly to wind power.

Yorkshire Today