Stop Burning Trees Coalition

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.

stopburningtrees.org/act

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

📸Sophia Knight

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

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...

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

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social

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.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social @axedrax.bsky.social @ccnfuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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, says campaigner Dale Vince

Why have I tabled a motion against the continued funding of Drax to burn US trees, to be heard on Monday in #HouseofLords?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#ThinkAgainRachel

💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis

🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉 open.substack.com/pub/andrewbo...

💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate and ecology

We're hearing Clive Lewis might have been removed from the #Drax committee?

Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social?

@compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social

Here's a US pellet mill that produces biomass, which is then sent to UK power stations.

Isn't it incredible that cutting down forests, turning them into pellets, shipping them thousands of miles, and setting them on fire, is completely carbon neutral?!

#CutCarbonNotForests

Emergency action - Please call on your MP to speak out against new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning at crucial vote on June 2nd At 6pm on the 2nd of June, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant huge new subsidies to the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax. Drax already ...

On Monday, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant Drax huge new subsidies:
- AGAINST 2019 rules blocking subsidies for polluting biomass
- NO time limit
- NO carbon capture requirement

Any MP can attend and speak at the meeting (only the committee members will vote). Write to your MP:

Emergency action - Please call on your MP to speak out against new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning at crucial vote on June 2nd At 6pm on the 2nd of June, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant huge new subsidies to the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax. Drax already ...

While only these 17 MPs get a vote, any MP can attend and speak out against the disastrous plan to hand BILLIONS more in subsidies to Drax, the UK's single biggest carbon emitter.

➡️✍️Write to your MP today and ask them to attend:
actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...

Emergency action - Please contact the MPs who will vote on new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning 📣URGENT ACTION 📣 On the 2nd of June at 6pm a committee of just 17 MPs will vote on legislation to extend Drax’s subsidies. 💰If it passes, this legislation will open the door for Drax’s subsidies to...

‼️URGENT: On the 2nd of June just 17 MPs will vote on legislation allowing the extension of Drax's tree burning subsidies.

➡️✍️Write to these MPs today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...

#CutCarbonNotForests

Emergency Action: Call on your MP to say no to new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning The UK Government is currently trying to bring in legislation to allow Drax to receive billions more in bill payer money. This legislation is currently going through Parliament, but our MPs have the c...

🚨Emergency action: Gov trying to sneak through Drax subsidies🚨

🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter

➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...

YouTube video by Real Media Protests at Drax AGM

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Mississippi residents local to Drax facility have suffered increases in health problems associated with air pollution

Katherine & Krystal from Mississippi joined @axedrax.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
& others protesting at Drax's AGM in London

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ez...

In a new series we're exploring different renewable energy sources.

First up is clean, green, totally 100% sustainable (don't worry, we asked Drax) BIOENERGY.

For those who don't know, that's...

*checks notes*

burning trees in power stations. 🌳🔥

#CutCarbonNotForests