by curly | Feb 27, 2025 | Press Release
Following announcements Drax earned over one billion pounds in 2024 [1], activists have staged a protest calling for no more public money to burning trees for electricity. Drax Group, owner of eponymous wood burning Drax Power Station, has made record profits in the...
by curly | Feb 24, 2025 | Press Release
Bristol based retired GP, Dr. Diana Warner, faces a trial at Leeds Crown Court which could lead to imprisonment. She has been charged with: ‘by wilful obstruction or neglect obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway at Snaith railway station’ [1]. On...
by curly | Feb 12, 2025 | Press Release
Activists have peacefully occupied the offices of controversial Drax lobbyist following the government announcement to further fund the UK’s biggest carbon emitter. Yesterday the government announced four years more subsidies for Drax, the biggest tree...
by curly | Jan 25, 2025 | Actions, Press Release
The Fabian Society’s New Year Conference hosting Wes Streeting as the keynote speaker¹ was disrupted by an activist calling on the Labour Party to end tree-burning subsidies for Drax Power Station. The Fabian conference brings together key government...
by curly | Dec 2, 2024 | Press Release
This is a re-post of the press release that was put out by Greenpeace UK here, after this collaborative coalition action was taken. Ghosts of Biomass Past return to haunt DESNZ Pictures are available here, video of the protest will be available this...
by curly | Oct 1, 2024 | Actions, Press Release
The Reuters Sustainability Awards, which features amongst others, tobacco companies, mining companies, and the UK’s biggest carbon emitter, Yorkshire power station Drax, is being accused of ‘Greenwashing’ by environmental activists who disrupted the...