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  1. UK's single biggest source of CO2 emissions, subsidised by taxpayers (and responsible for deforestation and toxic pollution in North America, even before they set fire to anything... ) Good clear article in advance of AGM. Protestors always show up, but sounds like the board will give it a miss this year #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax #UKPolitics
    thecanary.co/global/world-anal

  2. A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer.

    Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood.

    More at theguardian.com/business/2025/

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    Drax was to have been the target of a #ReclaimThePower protest, preemptively stopped by police action in Aug'24.

    reclaimthepower.org.uk/who-we-

    #AxeDrax

  3. Today is the International Day of Action on Big Biomass

    Please ask your UK MP to speak against Drax’s tree burning funding: tinyurl.com/yddsnsx7 & sign the petition against Drax's tree powered data centre plans tinyurl.com/y8b3ah3u

    #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees

  4. "The Public Accounts Committee has said that biomass generators have been left to “mark their own homework” when it comes to proving that their fuel met the sustainability standards set by the subsidy scheme."
    #AxeDrax #greenwash #journalism
    theguardian.com/business/2025/

  5. "...the BBC's discovery of further misreporting of sustainability data by Drax comes as the government is expected to announce an extension of Drax's subsidies imminently" Still lying about primary forests #AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees
    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxnpz

  6. "... The Drax factory received a permit to emit up to 25 tons of harmful air pollutants and 249 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) per year. But since 2016, Drax has consistently gone over these limits, in one instance being fined $2.5 million. ..."
    freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/12/
    #stopburningtrees #AxeDrax

  7. Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests.

    This is not new news, but glad the BBC has finally picked it up.

    ⁦‪We need to #axedrax, it’s doing more harm than good.

    ⁦‪@axe_drax‬⁩

    bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ

  8. Interview: Biofuel Watch
    Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/
    #AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition

  9. Interview: Biofuel Watch
    Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/
    #AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition

  10. Interview: Biofuel Watch
    Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/
    #AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition

  11. Interview: Biofuel Watch
    Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/
    #AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition

  12. Interview: Biofuel Watch
    Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/
    #AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition

  13. Drax announces £150m share buyback after record profits theguardian.com/business/2023/

    These fuckers are chopping down virgin Canadian forest, turning them into pellets, shipping them to UK, burning them to make energy and have the temerity to call it ‘carbon neutral’. Oh, and UK gov gives them £1.7m PER DAY in subsidy to do so. No wonder it’s so bloody profitable.

    #axedrax #climatevandalism #ecocide

  14. « En Angleterre, le mouvement "#AxeDrax" ("Mettons la hache dans Drax") exige la fin de cet #écoblanchiment. Ces contestataires de Drax affirment qu'il est faux de dire qu'une telle utilisation de la #biomasse est une énergie durable car, si on prend en considération l’empreinte totale de la filière des granulés de bois, leur combustion produirait autant, sinon plus de carbone que celle du charbon. »

    Mettons la hache dans #Drax

    #forêt #greenwashing

    #LAutJournal

    lautjournal.info/20230203/mett

  15. « En Angleterre, le mouvement "#AxeDrax" ("Mettons la hache dans Drax") exige la fin de cet #écoblanchiment. Ces contestataires de Drax affirment qu'il est faux de dire qu'une telle utilisation de la #biomasse est une énergie durable car, si on prend en considération l’empreinte totale de la filière des granulés de bois, leur combustion produirait autant, sinon plus de carbone que celle du charbon. »

    Mettons la hache dans #Drax

    #forêt #greenwashing

    #LAutJournal

    lautjournal.info/20230203/mett