Just before Christmas, I appeared on the regional BBC Look North evening News in a series organised by BBC Look North weatherman, Paul Hudson.  The series was part of the countdown to the UN Climate change talks in Copenhagen last December. The BBC wanted to profile Drax powersation as it is one of the main reasons why the Yorkshire region has the largest carbon footprint in the UK.

You can watch the clip below. Scroll to about 5 mins in for the start of the Drax feature. In this clip, the production manager at Drax powerstation, Peter emery states that Drax will reduce its carbon emissions by 20% by 2011 based on 2006 figures. This seems a huge and promising decrease, and I am currently seeking clarification on these figures.

I also did a follow up interview on Look North two days later, in response to the launch of a new multimillion pound nuclear research facility in the Yorkshire region. Again i made a similar argument that we need to make a transition to a low carbon economy not through coal or nuclear, but through demand reductions, energy efficiency and a shift to renewables. Watch how well those arguments were received!