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Drax

since 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 07:22 UTC

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4 days ago

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince

found 2025 › Jun › 21 (Sat) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding

How green is this? We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the …

55 days ago

Drax takes ancient trees from near my Carolina home and burns them 4,000 miles away. This greenwashing scandal utterly shames Britain

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 01:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

There will be plenty of backslapping among the highly paid executives of Drax, Britain's biggest power station, at today's AGM held in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral.

76 days ago

How controversial woodburning power station Drax's claims about just how green it really is went up in smoke - thanks to a whistleblower it tried to silence

found 2025 › Apr › 10 (Thu) @ 01:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Rowaa Ahmar was Drax's head of public affairs and policy. But she left the role in hostile circumstances, making a sensational claim: she'd been unfairly dismissed for making whistleblowing complaint…

83 days ago

British taxpayers subsidised power firm Drax to the tune of £869million last year - the equivalent of £2m a day - despite concerns about pollution and the cost of burning imported woody biomass, thinktank report claims

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 00:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The controversial Drax wood-burning plant in North Yorkshire has received billions of pounds from the Government in recent years due to imported biomass being treated as renewable fuel.

3 months ago

Ofgem boss admits energy watchdog cannot ensure all wood burned at Drax is sustainable - following reports it burnt pellets from rare forests

found 2025 › Mar › 04 (Tue) @ 06:38 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The head of Ofgem has admitted that it cannot ensure Drax only uses sustainable wood following reports it burned pellets from rare forests

Drax climate protester says judge ‘bullied’ jury to find her guilty

found 2025 › Feb › 28 (Fri) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Jurors had difficulty reaching a verdict in case of Diana Warner, who obstructed train in protest over power plant

A retired doctor has been found guilty of obstructing the railway during a climate pr…

4 months ago

Massacre of the oak, maple, pine, cypress and hickory trees - all in the name of Miliband's great green energy hoax - the inconvenient truth of where Drax's energy pellets come from

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 09:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Tom Leonard visits Hertford, North Carolina, to gauge a sense of the destruction caused by Labour's green energy hoax as thousands of trees are felled thanks to EU loophole.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Does burning trees really help the planet?

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 07:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: To describe shipping cutdown Canadian trees to burn at the Drax power station (pictured) in the UK as renewable energy stretches the limits of credulity to breaking point.

New subsidies deal for Drax wood-burning power station

found 2025 › Feb › 10 (Mon) @ 10:40 UTC

a story from BBC ✅ › BBC News

The government has agreed a new subsidy arrangement with the controversial wood-burning Drax power station in north Yorkshire.

Ed Miliband faces fresh humiliation as he prepares to hand more millions of taxpayers' cash to Drax power plant

found 2025 › Feb › 10 (Mon) @ 06:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The Energy Secretary will announce that Drax power station is to receive hundreds of millions of pounds more in 'renewable' subsidies.

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