50 thousand tonnes of wood from these natural forests. That is over a thousand truck loads of trees from 30 rare forest sites.

The plant in the UK makes electricity from the burning of wood pellets in what is supposed to be a sustainable, renewable process taking wood from harvested regrowth forests. 

Location of Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Home to the world's largest wood fuelled power station.
The countryside in this area has many picturesque farming villages. Located approximately half way between the Yorkshire cities of Hull and Leeds. Close to the River Ouse that eventually meanders it's way to the Humber estuary.

 

Making around 5% of UK electricity, their power plant near Selby in North Yorkshire is the world's largest wood fuelled power station.

Drax have received green subsidies of 6 billion GBP (7.5 USD) from the UK government. They had claimed that the wood pellets would be sourced from sustainable sources. They would not take wood from protected areas.

Counted in UK government figures for renewable energy, the plant burns 6.5 million tonnes of wood pellets every year. All of which is shipped from overseas. Mostly from North America where Drax runs several pellet plants in USA and Canada. 

Wood pellets mainly come from sawdust and low grade wood, the best of the tree being made in to timber.

Burning wood emits far higher amounts of climate changing carbon gases in to the atmosphere compared to burning oil to provide the equivalent energy. The UK government is currently considering gifting the company a further 4 billion pound (5 billion USD) subsidy to pay for the installation of carbon capture technologies at the Selby facility. This addition to the power plant would greatly reduce emissions from burning wood.

Climate scientists are no longer in favour of burning wood to make electricity, even from renewable forests as the emissions are too high.