Biomass: Power Generation - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:06 pm on 13 March 2024.

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Photo of Lord Rooker Lord Rooker Labour 3:06, 13 March 2024

At the risk of upsetting a few colleagues, I ask: is the Minister aware that some of the forests in Canada and America were originally planted for paper? The paper mills closed because paper was not wanted; towns were decimated because they were one-product towns for the paper mills. Drax came along and saved some of those towns in the early days.