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Website of Stop Burning Trees: find more information for action in #GB against #Drax, UK's single largest #carbon emitter, emitting more carbon dioxide than 29 countries, and world's biggest tree burner (woody biomass burning power station). https://stopburningtrees.org/issue
#activism #climateActivism #CO2 #climateCrisis #forest #trees #wood #biodiversity #clearcuts #StopBurningTrees #environment
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‘Everything is worse since Drax came here’: US residents say wood-pellet plant harming their town https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/mississippi-wood-pellet-industry-energy
Tristan Baurick: ‘Everything is worse since Drax came here’: US residents say wood-pellet plant harming their town
#Mississippi #pollution #biofuel #drax #US #UK #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/mississippi-wood-pellet-industry-energy
'After Gloster Biomass Plant Gets OK to Increase Emissions, Residents Take Issue to Court'
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/after-gloster-biomass-plant-gets-ok-to-increase-emissions-residents-take-issue-to-court/?ms=Newsletter&emci=2044447e-59c5-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=9ee1d3f1-05ca-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=7084677
#usa #uk #drax #airpollution #biomass #environment
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say
"#Drax UK burning old growth BC timber"
Well, Drax hired BC's ex-Chief Forester. Makes you wonder.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say?CMP=GTUK_email
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say #Drax #Canada #OldGrowthForests #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say. #Drax is NOT "green", & should not be getting #subsidies for #renewable #energy!
#Drax still burning 250-year-old #trees sourced from #forests in #Canada, experts say https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say?CMP=share_btn_url
#Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say stop these obscene subsidies
Sure, #Musk is like #Drax from #Moonraker, but I never enjoyed that film anyway, because it just isn’t good.
Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/24/drax-faces-lawsuits-over-claims-workers-developed-asthma-from-wood-dust #FinancialConductAuthority #Energyindustry #Workers'rights #Environment #Regulators #Yorkshire #Business #Society #Health #Asthma #UKnews #Drax
October 21: The International Day of Action on Big Biomass 2025
On 21st October groups all around the world are taking part in a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the #biomass industry and you are invited to join them!
https://environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa-25/ #AxeDrax #Drax #biofuels
@AlisonCreekside @northernlights @dyckron And just to be clear, those reports I linked are from 2024 and 2025 - this is ongoing, as Alison says they just keep changing how it's happening very slightly.
Amidst claims to the contrary, Drax sourced logs from old growth forests in BC in 2024. In a recent radio interview, Drax representative Joe Aquino claimed that Drax stopped sourcing logs from old growth forests in 2023. However, findings by UK and BC-based environmental groups found that this is not the case
https://www.evergreenalliance.ca/forest-news/41/
Drax: Wood pellet production up in Q1 2025
https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/drax-wood-pellet-production-up-in-q1
Since BBC Panorama and CBC Fifth Estate exposed Drax’s logging of Primary forest in 2022, including Old Growth forest in a Priority Deferral Area, Drax’s sourcing policy appears to have shifted towards procuring all of its wood from other companies. However, as this investigation shows, this has done little to prevent trees from Old Growth forests from being fed into Drax’s BC mills
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drax-in-BC-report.pdf
And what does this get us? In their own words:
having 127 full-time employees in the region (70 full-time employees at Burns Lake), the company has spent $68 million in the northwest on fibre, wages and salaries, rail and external contractors. It has also spent $4.61 million on capital expenditures,
https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/eTrending/drax-a-positive-impact-on-b-c-s-northwest-region/
yeah that's right, 127 jobs and a few million spent. Compare wood burning to the MW/$ for solar. This is only commercially viable because we're (as in taxpayers of Canada and the UK) funding it, which is a whole other rabbit hole of anger.
They sure do admit they wish they could pollute more on main!
the annual production target is currently 320,000 MT, the plant has the potential to produce a higher capacity. However, meeting emissions targets places a cap on production targets.
“We try and put out as much as we can. But with our dryers, for example, we can only put so much through them. They have a point where we can’t go any higher because of emissions,” Bedford says.
@AlisonCreekside @dyckron and in BC our precious rare primary and old growth forests are STILL being CHIPPED FOR BURNING in the UK!
I'm sorry for yelling it just makes me so angry!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/government-urged-to-end-subsidies-as-drax-accused-of-burning-old-forest-wood-b2503871.html - or even "conservative" papers like the Financial Times reported on it https://www.ft.com/content/34550e7d-9d65-4756-8ffa-53f821dd14d0 . It's hard to believe but it's true. They're cutting down the last of the giants to chip up to burn in the UK.
They call it green and sustainable, but these trees are older than Canada. If you've never seen one of these giants, please I beg you just look at this https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tree-cedar-truck-viral-social-media-1.6042822 and imagine chipping that to burn for electricity.
Better but less famous coverage: https://www.evergreenalliance.ca/forest-news/41/ and https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2024/drax-bc-pellets-investigation/
The case against the #Drax 15 has been thrown out of court, with the judge citing a lack of evidence.
Activists with Reclaim The Power want to know why the police spent millions on the botched operation, instead of focusing on the far-right riots taking place at the time.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
Case against ‘Drax 15’ dramati...
UK's #FCA investigates energy company #Drax over #Biomass sourcing disclosures | Reuters https://share.google/gKAs4C8n3fhP770hF
#Ofgem
Wow, not before time but great to see investigation of #Drax by #FCA #StopBurningTrees
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/28/drax-investigated-by-uk-watchdog-over-historical-statements-on-biomass-sourcing?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
