UK biomass – a strategy for BP and Drax profits, not decarbonizing

In November 2021 the UK government outlined a broad strategy around the use of biomass in energy, stating that it must be used ONLY in hard to decarbonize sectors with no low carbon alternatives, and that it should be used alongside carbon capture utilization and sequestration. This week it produced a confused and contradictory statement on biomass, in a more detailed strategy document debating whether we should allow imports, detailing how UK waste would not rise much by 2050, and writing just as much about human waste and manure slurry, as it does about vegetable residues and depleted cooking oil and wrapping that in with food waste at the farm level, at the supermarket level, and at the home level.…