Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada- PublishedA company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.Panorama discovered Drax bought logging licences to cut down two areas of environmentally-important forest in British Columbia.Drax's own responsible sourcing policy says it "will avoid damage or disturbance" to primary and old-growth forest.But documents on a Canadian forestry database show that only 11% of the logs delivered to the two Drax plants in the past year were classified as the lowest quality, which cannot be used for wood products.They also said that Drax applies stringent sustainability standards to its own pellet production as well as suppliers, with verification from third-party certification schemes."