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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

#UnitedStates #USA #US #Canada #UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #forest #trees #deforestation #Drax #subsidies

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

#climateCatastrophe #science #sustainability #energy #UKpolitics

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/02/calls-for-drax-to-be-forced-to-fully-disclose-biomass-sourcing-renewables-subsidies-scheme

#UK #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy

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

This skeleton of a trade deal with Gilead is already looking to harm the Environment for profit. Bet Fash Boy Starmer doesn't have a problem with that, fuck the world his children will be inheriting, their wealth will somehow shield them from it he thinks.

I wonder if it was money, empty promises or naked threats which made Ed Miliband change his mind?

Oh wait, was it the "sound reasoning of the Trump administration", yeah? /s

#Drax #ClimateChange #UKUSTradeDeal #EdMilliband

28mago 14.54 BST

UK could be buying more wood pellets from US for Drax biomass
power station, Trump's agriculture secretary signals

8) elena orton

Helena Horton is a Guardian environment reporter.

The UK could buy more wood pellets from the US for the Drax biomass
‘power station in north Yorkshire, Brooke Rollins, US agriculture secretary,
has suggested.

Speaking to reporters in London, Rollins said she had convinced energy
Secretary Ed Miliband to take more of the

These are used to power the Drax power station - even though
environmental experts have claimed is unsustainable because burning wood
emits carbon and the pellets used to power it are shipped across the ocean.

The Drax plant accounts for around 6% of the UK’s electricity supply but it
had its subsidies halved last year, and it was directed by government to only
use sustainable wood. Last year, Drax was forced to pay £25m to the energy
regulator Ofgem after it was found to have submitted inaccurate data on the
sourcing of its wood pellets. There have been reports some of the pellets
used in the power station have been from rare forests.

Rollins said:

44 We are 100% confident that [the wood pellets] does meet your sustainability
requirements here in this country yesterday. That was one of the key things that
Ispoke to [Miliband and energy minister Michael Shanks] about. And they
agreed.

Idon’t want to get ahead of them, but in that meeting they felt fully assured
that what we are doing in America does meet your sustainability requirements.
In fact, we could potentially be opening up more markets for our wood pellets
into the UK, as other countries that you’re importing here into this country are
clearly not meeting those marks.

Heat distortion

#Drax #PowerStation #HeatDistortion #Farming #Farm #Yorkshire #NikonZ50

"Protesters told mega-polluter #Drax to ‘hit the road’ and don’t come back on the day of its AGM"

Musical protest!

#Edinburgh #ClimateJustice #protest #TheCanary

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/01/drax-agm/

@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)

Protests disrupt Drax AGM - Real Media - The View From Below

https://realmedia.press/drax-agm-2025/

> #Drax pockets huge ‘green’ subsidies in the #UK, but their #Mississippi wood pellet plant is killing and harming racialised communities, while the UK #Yorkshire plant is our biggest carbon emitter.

#Environment #ClimateChange #polluters

‘#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.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/drax-of-drax-hall-by-paul-lashmar-review-forensic-expose-of-a-british-dynasty-built-on-slavery

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