Stop Burning Trees Coalition

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?

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#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