There could be no better symbol of the
madness of Britain’s energy policy than what is happening at the giant
Drax power station in Yorkshire, easily the largest in Britain.
Indeed,
it is one of the biggest and most efficiently run coal-fired power
stations in the world. Its almost 1,000ft-tall flue chimney is the
highest in the country, and its 12 monster cooling towers (each taller
than St Paul’s Cathedral) dominate the flat countryside of eastern
Yorkshire for miles around.
Every
day, Drax burns 36,000 tons of coal, brought to its vast site by 140
coal trains every week — and it supplies seven per cent of all the
electricity used in Britain. That’s enough to light up a good many of
our major cities.
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