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Wood pellet maker Drax denied pollution permit after small town Mississippi outcry

Jimmy Brown has lived less than a mile from the Drax wood pellet manufacturing plant in the tiny town of Gloster in Amite County, Mississippi, since it opened in 2016. The impact on his quality of ...
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New report finds Drax Contributes $1 Billion to Canadian Economy

Independent analysis illustrates the positive impact of Drax's wood pellet operations and how it helps support more than 3,000 Canadian jobs VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It’s come at a cost for Black people in the South.

Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets during a tour of a Drax facility in Gloster, Miss., Monday, May 20, 2024. Wood pellet production skyrocketed across the U.S. South to feed the ...
St. Louis American

Drax Donates More Than $291,000 to Non-Profits Focused on STEM Education and the Environment

The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME), which was awarded $80,000, creates equitable experiences for students from underrepresented groups to explore futures in engineering. “Drax’s ...
The Daily World on MSN

Wood pellets: Biomass project in Longview put on hold

While the Longview pellet plant is on hold for now, it could be resurrected. Drax could decide to resume work on the facility ...
BBC

Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood

A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, the BBC has found. Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber ...
The Guardian

‘Everything is worse since Drax came here’: US residents say wood-pellet plant harming their town

Residents of Gloster, Mississippi, are suing plant that exports wood pellets to UK and Europe. Company says it is reducing emissions When Helen Reed first learned about the bioenergy mill opening in ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Apollo’s Graanul Nears Deal to End Wood Pellet Dispute With Drax

Wood pellet supplier Graanul Invest AS is inching closer to ending a price dispute with UK biomass generator Drax Group Plc, according to people familiar with the matter. Graanul, backed by Apollo ...
Yahoo

Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. But it's come at a cost for Blacks in the South

GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town's expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins' home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...
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Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It’s come at a cost for Black people in the South

GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...
Los Angeles Times

Wood pellets production boomed to feed European demand. It comes at a cost for Black people in the South

GLOSTER, Miss. — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...