In addition, the new power station is expected to qualify for significant ongoing subsidies paid via a surcharge on electricity bills. [4] Campaigners warn that the project will waste large amounts of public money on a technology shown not be economically viable, whilst exacerbating Drax's current global coal mining and biomass sourcing impacts. Drax's existing power station burns more biomass than any other plant in the world and more coal than any other UK power station. Wood burned at the power station has been shown to come from the clearcutting of biodiverse wetland forests in the southern US, [5] while Drax also burns coal from an opencast mine in Northern Colombia for which whole communities have been evicted. [6] " White Rose is an evocative name, but White Elephant would be more apt." Said Oliver Munnion, Biofuelwatch Co-Director. "Drax is symbolic of all that is wrong with energy policy in the UK.