Joe CrowleyBbc Panorama

Feb 28, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Joe CrowleyBbc Panorama |Joe Crowley

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 from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were "no-go areas". It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm's Yorkshire site billions more in environmental subsidies funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are "sustainable and legally harvested".

Dec 4, 2023 | news.zordo.in | Joe CrowleyBbc Panorama |Joe Crowley

Image caption, Raw sewage was pumped into Windermere for more than three hours in June 2022By Joe CrowleyBBC PanoramaWater companies can make sewage pollution disappear from the official figures, a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed. Leaked records suggest one firm, United Utilities, wrongly downgraded dozens of pollution events, including at a famed English lake in north-west England. The Environment Agency signed off all the downgrades without attending any of the incidents.

Dec 4, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Joe Crowley |Joe CrowleyBbc Panorama

Water companies can make sewage pollution disappear from the official figures, a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed. Leaked documents suggest one firm, United Utilities, wrongly downgraded dozens of pollution incidents in north-west England last year. The Environment Agency signed off all the downgrades without attending any of the incidents. United Utilities denies misreporting pollution. Water companies in England are set environmental targets by the regulator, Ofwat.