Every pantomime needs a villain, and in the UK’s route to net zero emissions, it appears that Drax is determined to play the part. As natural gas continues to face resistance, the company has now turned its attention to biomass, but under current practices, little has been done to reduce its overall carbon footprint. This Thursday, along with its annual financial results, Drax finally buckled under environmentalist pressure, announcing that it would scrap plans for its 3.6 GW gas fired power plant in North Yorkshire, UK – a plant which would have been the largest of its kind in Europe. Initially approved in 2019, the initial proposal for this project was to replace the two coal-fired units with gas generators…