Is that bullshit still going on? OUTRAGEOUS! @HI_Greens
#SaveTheForest #OldGrowthTrees #Drax #CorporateColonialism #OldGrowthForests #Greenwashing #EnvironmentalActivism
#BigForest #DraxPowerStation
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station
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. »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station
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
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station #Energyindustry #Climatecrisis #Environment #EdMiliband #Yorkshire #Politics #Business #Labour #UKnews #Drax
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station #Energyindustry #Climatecrisis #Environment #EdMiliband #Yorkshire #Politics #Business #Labour #UKnews #Drax
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.
Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/02/calls-for-drax-to-be-forced-to-fully-disclose-biomass-sourcing-renewables-subsidies-scheme #Biomassandbioenergy #Renewableenergy #Energyindustry #Environment #Business #Energy #Waste #Drax
@anna_lillith
Oh that's good, we can add it to the Canadian timber and burn it in the UK at #Drax power station and pretend it is carbon neutral.
(irony alert)
A spokesperson for #ExtinctionRebellion said: “Even the government’s own advisors say we need to end burning trees in power stations by 2027. So the fact that the government has committed billions of pounds of public money so #Drax can keep doing this until 2031 doesn’t make sense. This decision needs to be urgently revisited.” https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/03/04/our-energy-bills-are-torching-the-planet/
‘#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.
‘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.
As soon as anyone actually invents carbon capture that works, there is zero chance that C is being sequestered somewhere. It will be fed into the system to be burned and will not count. See: #drax
“Activists take over lobbyist for toxic Drax and Heathrow – as Starmer ramps up climate attacks”
by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanterlonian
“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”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/02/11/drax-lobbyist-protest/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
#Press #Labour #Starmer #Liar #Authoritarian #Drax #AxeDrax #5654&Company #Lobbyist #Heathrow #Biomass
Just written a letter to my MP, condemning the recent decision to grant further tree burning subsidies to Drax. This decision harms bill payers, forests, communities and our planet.
You can take the same action here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-action-stop-disastrous-decision-to-extend-draxs-subsidies/
#UKpolitics #sustainability #Drax
#Drax power station's further reporting failure exposed by BBC News
Again failed to report burning old growth forest wood.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxnpzzjed1o
Biomass at scale is #Greenwashing
“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.”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/01/28/drax-wes-streeting/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
Burning wood for power not necessary for UK’s energy goals, analysis finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/burning-wood-for-power-not-necessary-for-uks-energy-goals-analysis-finds #Carboncaptureandstorage(CCS) #Greenhousegasemissions #Biomassandbioenergy #Renewableenergy #Energyindustry #Greenpolitics #Environment #EdMiliband #Solarpower #Windpower #Politics #UKnews #Energy #Energy #Labour #Drax