Stop Burning Trees Coalition

Stop burning trees say climate campaigners Climate campaigners condemn new Government subsidies for tree burning at Lynemouth Power Station in Northumberland

Converted from coal to biomass in 2018, Lynemouth burns up to 1.5 million tonnes of wood every year. The UK’s 2nd biggest such power station also sources wood from Drax’s pellet mills in British Columbia. thenortherneco.substack.com/p/stop-burni... @stopburningtrees.bsky.social

Never trust Drax; be it with jobs or climate solutions. Drax will always prioritise profit above all else.

Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show Company publicly denied allegations that primary forests were being cut down to fuel UK’s biggest power plant

Responding to this will require a thread, not yet sure how long!
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Let's start with what we know...

Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions In Subsidies? Drax Faces A Reckoning Policymakers are rethinking biomass as new research shows wood pellets may increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them. The focus is now on subsidies.

Burning wood pellets for power receives billions in subsidies, but according to scientists, it may not be clean energy. Companies like Drax are clear-cutting forests and trees for energy and harming communities in the process. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

It’s #CleanAirNight! Did you know that wood burning is the most polluting way to heat your home? Air pollution from domestic burning contributes to nearly 2,500 deaths in the UK each year.

Visit cleanairhub.org.uk from globalactionplan.bsky.social to find out more

Why not kick start 2026 by taking action against Drax?
🔗 Follow the link in our bio to download our action toolkit for ideas and to get involved!

✊ The tides are turning. Drax is being sued by communities they operate in and UK workers, as well as their own shareholders. It's high time they were held to account...

❗ BREAKING: DRAX HAS VIOLATED U.S ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS 18,000 TIMES ❗

📰 A new report by land and climate review shows even more brazen violations by the UK's biggest carbon polluter Drax, who continue to choke and harm communities in the southern U.S whilst profiting from UK billpayers.

✊ The university of York has a responsibility to lead by example when it comes to the climate crisis and this means cutting ties with polluters. ✍️ Add your name to our open letter if you are a graduate.

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The corporation is also under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority, and has violated environmental regulations 11,378 times since 2014 in the US alone.

☣️ Drax is currently being sued by communities in the southern U.S for poisoning residents, as well as by it's own workers in the UK for failing to protect employees from wood dust pollution.

🧑‍🎓 Are you a York uni graduate?
👀 The university claims to uphold the values of sustainability, human rights and academic integrity. 🔥 Yet, the university has partnered with the UK's biggest carbon polluter, Drax, for a bid to build an AI data centre

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This is absurd. Drax is currently under investigation by the FCA, being sued by communities in Mississippi AND workers here in Yorkshire over relentless air pollution - and now we're handing them over £1m a day to keep burning trees and destroying our planet.

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Govt and Drax have now finalised this contract, with a slightly lower price of £110/MWh in 2012 prices (£153/MWh)

Key points remain as below

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Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests​. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees

$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...

Industrial biomass isn’t clean or green. According to @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social, it’s more carbon-intensive than coal, destroys forests, and harms communities. It’s time to end biomass subsidies & the industry’s expansion. More: rachelcarsoncouncil.org/wp-content/u...

#BackDownBigBiomass

Drax, the "corporate assassins" still lobbying for billions in subsidies - Corporate Watch Drax likes to cast itself as a green champion – Britain’s largest power station has ditched coal and now runs on allegedly ‘sustainable’ wood pellets. But scratch beneath the branding and a different ...

🎧 In a powerful new podcast, community leaders Dr Krystal Martin and Kathy Egalnd share the truth about how #Drax is fuelling "environmental racism", “pimping poverty,” & devastating lives - while pretending to save the planet, & reaping billions in subsidies.

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It's outrageous that a UK company, subsidised by us bill payers, has been causing so much harm to communities like Gloster with their poisonous pollution.

Expanding Drax's pollution limits is the LAST thing Gloster needs.

➡️Read the full letter here: stopburningtrees.org/resource/ope...

For years, Gloster has suffered under Drax's deadly pollution, leaving young children with asthma unable to play outside, and elderly community members relying on costly breathing medication.

We stand in full solidarity with Gloster.

📸Sophia Knight

Today the Gloster community is fighting Drax's appeal to expand its pollution

Together w 85 orgs inc @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
& @friends-earth.bsky.social we wrote to the Governor in support of Gloster, calling on Mississippi to uphold their decision and reject Drax's appeal

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Photo showing demonstrators in a London street in front of a large plastic barrel saying "Make Polluters Pay" and, in front of it, a banner saying "Drax the destroyer".

#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!

Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station Fifteen people are cleared of planning to lock themselves to objects during climate protest.

Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station - BBC News
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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

Say NO to Drax's Dirty AI Data Centre

➡️✍️Sign the petition today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Fears Drax-powered AI centre may 'burn a tree every time it is used' A new data centre which will get its energy from Drax power station "could end up burning a tree every time it is used", opponents say.

New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward

If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet

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Drax is scheduled to pocket £10 billion in subsidies.

That’s public money funding deforestation and destruction. It is time to #AxeDrax

UK power company Drax investigated over source of ‘renewable’ fuel Move by UK watchdog FCA relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024

#Drax being investigated by FCA

It should be unthinkable for the Govt to give further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports

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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

Drax is currently bidding to build a AI Data Centre run off, you guessed it, burning trees...

All whilst the Gov intends to hand billions more in subsidies over to Drax.

✍️➡️Sign the petition opposing Drax's data centre today: tinyurl.com/drax-data-ce...

UK power company Drax’s shares plunge amid investigation over source of ‘renewable’ fuel Investigation by UK watchdog relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024

Drax shares plumet as FCA opens investigation into their sourcing.

It's past time the Government stops handing bill payer money over to fund Drax's dirty business.

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UK power company Drax investigated over source of ‘renewable’ fuel Move by UK watchdog FCA relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024

How much more evidence of duplicitous behaviour does this government need before it realises it has to #AxeDrax?
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