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Ancient trees from US and #Canada are shipped to the #UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies.
Stop this madness now by Dale Vince

« After BBC’s Panorama investigation into the company’s destruction of primary forests, #Drax asked auditor KPMG to investigate, hoping for a clean bill of health.

However, the evidence was so damning that the reports are being hidden from the public. »

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness nowPar Dale Vince

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now
Dale Vince

The evidence against the #Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness nowPar Dale Vince

Calls for #Drax to be forced to fully disclose its #biomass sourcing | Drax | The Guardian

Drax used to be a huge #coal-fired #PowerStation which switched to burning biomass and so earned a label of being green (debatable, IMHO). However it has been sourcing at least some #wood #fuel from #NorthAmerica, which obviously involves #shipping it over and so has been accused of #GreenWashing its credentials.

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcingPar Jillian Ambrose
Suite du fil

#Drax of Drax Hall is not just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it is an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past.

Lashmar’s book is a necessary, damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent.’

This is not my first post about the Drax family. Their exploitation and the dominance they still hold deserves to be known and scrutinised…and ultimately there must be a reckoning.

Suite du fil

‘James #Drax, the family’s 17th-century patriarch, was not merely a plantation owner but the founder of a system of control and punishmen.

Arriving in #Barbados in 1627, he was instrumental in shifting the island’s labour force from white indentured servants to enslaved Africans. By the 1640s, he had devised the plantation model that would dominate the #Caribbean for centuries – a vast industrial machine, extracting staggering wealth through calculated cruelty.’

Great news on the exposing the current British elite’s links to the slave trade.

A certain rightwing Brexiteer #Dorset ex #Tory MP who really does deserve to be better known for his family’s cruelty, exploitation and the fact their wealth was entirely built on #slavery, is the subject of a new book…’#Drax of Drax Hall’ by Paul Lashmar.

theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

The Guardian · Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slaveryPar Alex Preston

“Activists take over lobbyist for toxic Drax and Heathrow – as Starmer ramps up climate attacks”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanterlonian

@UKLabour

“Grassroots network Axe Drax has targeted a key lobbyist for the UK’s largest carbon polluter. This comes as Keir Starmer’s compromised corporatist Labour Party government ramps up its attacks on the climate”

thecanary.co/trending/2025/02/

#Press #Labour #Starmer #Liar #Authoritarian #Drax #AxeDrax #5654&Company #Lobbyist #Heathrow #Biomass

Canary · Activists take over lobbyist for toxic Drax and Heathrow - as Starmer ramps up climate attacksAxe Drax peacefully occupied the offices of controversial Drax & Heathrow lobbyist 5654 & Company, forcing staff to leave for the day

“What better way to end the month than to watch Wes Streeting being heckled?”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“The Fabian Society’s New Year Conference hosting Wes Streeting as the keynote speaker was disrupted by an activist calling on the Labour Party to end tree-burning subsidies for Drax Power Station.”

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/01/2

Canary · Wes Streeting versus Barry Gardiner over DraxWes Streeting got heckled by a protester over planet-wrecking Drax. By contrast, Barry Gardiner was on point. A tale of two Labour MPs?