Bertie Harrison-Broninski

London

Senior Editor at Land and Climate Review

Senior Editor @LandClimate. Now posting on Bluesky, @bertiehb.bsky.social

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Articles

Drax fined again over pollution: "I'm afraid to go outside," say residents

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This two part series is published in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part two, which focuses on Drax’s planned operations on the West Coast, by clicking here. All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology.
What are Drax's plans on the West Coast?

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This is the second article in a series produced in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part one, about Drax’s operations in the Southeast US, by clicking here. Since 2022, Drax Group has had its sights fixed on a new pellet mill, in the small northwestern city of Longview, nestled on the Columbia river in Washington state, some 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon.
The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S

Sep 30, 2024 | theintercept.com | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology. In 2014, an industrial facility producing wood pellets opened so close to her house in Gloster, Mississippi, that she could overhear conversations between managers and staffers as they worked and smell the fumes the plant pumped into the air. Dobbins, a 59-year-old mother of two, relies on an oxygen tank to breathe, as do her sister and her brother-in-law, who also live in the town.
The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S

Sep 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

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Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka's financial crisis?

Jun 21, 2024 | landclimate.org | Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Gunadasa* doesn’t follow politics, so the 72 year old farmer learned the news in May 2021 at a local meeting run by the Department for Agrarian Development. He would no longer receive the subsidised fertiliser he and his wife Kusuma* had long used to grow paddy, sesame, corn, and beans at their small farm in Anuradhapura District. Neither, in fact, would any other farmer in Sri Lanka.
Drax’s pellet mills violated environmental law 189 times in Canada

May 14, 2024 | landclimate.org | Jaysim Hanspal |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Canadian wood pellet mills have illegally polluted rivers and lakes, destroyed wetlands, and breached emissions limits, while exporting biomass fuel to countries including the UK and Japan. An investigation by Land and Climate Review, as reported by BBC Newsnight, has found years of repeated lawbreaking at facilities that export wood to burn in the UK’s largest power station, Drax.
Canada Urged to Boost Regulation, Not Subsidies to Avoid UK’s Bioenergy Blunder

May 9, 2024 | theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Bertie Harrison-Broninski |Richard L. Robertson

Two years ago, BBC journalists visited Canada to investigate the wood pellet industry. Their findings, broadcast in the documentary Drax: The Green Energy Scandal exposed, sent shockwaves through climate politics in the United Kingdom.
Canada Needs to Get Tough on Wood Pellet Exports

Apr 29, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Two years ago, BBC journalists visited Canada to investigate the wood pellet industry. Their findings, broadcast in the documentary Drax: The Green Energy Scandal Exposed, sent shockwaves through climate politics in the U.K. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Dive Into Award-Winning Films for Indigenous History Month Local movies from Haida Gwaii to Siksika Nation are streaming across the Knowledge Network this June. A sneak peak.
Canada should avoid the mistakes the U.K. made in biomass for energy

Apr 9, 2024 | treefrogcreative.ca | Bertie Harrison-Broninski |Richard Robertson |Kevin Mason |David Elstone

Canada should avoid the mistakes the U.K. made in biomass for energy By Bertie Harrison-Broninski & Richard Robertson Policy Options April 9, 2024 Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy Two years ago, BBC journalists visited Canada to investigate the wood pellet industry.
Richard Robertson

Apr 8, 2024 | policyoptions.irpp.org | Bertie Harrison-Broninski |Richard Robertson

Richard Robertson Richard Robertson is a forest campaigner at Stand.earth and is an expert in international forestry practices, forest certification and illegality in the timber trade. He is based on the territories of the shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia.