Axe Drax

Demo: No Subsidies for Burning Trees
2024-12-02 08:00 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Department for Energy, 3 Whitehall Pl, London, SW1A 2AW, United Kingdom

Resisting Britain's dirtiest power station: Axe Drax welcome call
2024-11-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-10-28 18:00 - 19:00
Ed Miliband is facing a choice to extend the life of Drax, the UK’s single biggest carbon emitter and worlds biggest tree burning power station that fuels environmental racism across the world. But what does this mean, and more importantly how can we resist it?
Join Axe Drax for an short online call to find out what Drax is, and the threat we face if Drax is allowed to burn their way through the worlds precious forests.
Most importantly we will talk about the strategy to win and how you can be part of the resistance against Drax.
Sign up here to get the Zoom link to join the call.

Reclaim the Power Camp Targeting Drax
2024-08-08 - 2024-08-13

Drax Train Occupation Trial
2024-06-10 09:30 - 2024-06-13 16:30 | Leeds Crown Court, 1 Oxford Row, Leeds, LS1 3BG, United Kingdom
In Nov 2021, an Axe Drax supporter blocked and climbed on top of a Drax train full of wood pellets heading to the power station

Support the #Drax2 as they face trial
2024-04-22 10:00 - 2024-04-26 16:30 | Southwark Crown Court, 1 English Grounds (off Battlebridge Lane), Southwark, London, SE1 2HU, United Kingdom
Jointly charged with conspiracy to damage the department that props up Drax, Fergus and another face Southwark Crown Court for a 5 day trial on 22nd to 26th April.
This includes one person who has been taken to the courts because they had a spec of paint on their nose.

Drax AGM Protest: Stop Drax's Money Tree
2024-04-14 08:00 - 17:00 | etc.venues 133 Houndsditch, etc.venues, 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX, United Kingdom
✊PROTEST DRAX’S AGM WITH US! ✊
On the 25th of April at 10am, Drax will be gathering with all their shareholders to celebrate how much money they’ve made from burning trees, polluting communities, and ripping off bill payers.
In the last year, Drax made RECORD profits of £1.2 BILLION – £850 MILLION of that was from public subsidies! This is after a year when Drax has once again been exposed for sourcing from primary, rare, old-growth forests in British Columbia, from sourcing from Natura 2000 sites in Portugal and emitting huge amounts of air pollution causing devastating health impacts to environmental justice communities in the Southern US.
It’s an absolute disgrace that this company is destroying our planet, our communities, our forests – and taking our money to do it. Drax is the UKs single largest carbon emitter, and world’s biggest tree burner, and yet receives GREEN subsidies.
We cannot allow this dirty scam to continue for a second longer. The Government is now considering giving Drax £billions more in subsidies for business as usual tree burning and pollution.
Join us to say Enough is Enough, No More. It’s time to #AxeDrax and #StopBurningTrees.
Bring placards, banners, noisy things and your friends! It’s up to us to show Drax that we will not allow this disastrous scam to continue.

Support the Drax Train Obstruction Trial
2024-04-02 09:30 - 2024-04-05 16:30 | Leeds Crown Court, 1 Oxford Row, Leeds, LS1 3BG, United Kingdom
Support Diana Warner as she stands trial for allegedly obstructing a Drax train in December 2021.
Charged with obstructing a Drax train on a private train line that only carries wood pellets to Drax by the thousand tonne load, Diana needs support outside the court building during the trial.
The trial is running from 2nd to 5th April, and court will be in session from 9:30 to 16:30 each day. You don’t need to be there the whole time, but any support is appreciated.

Stop Drax: Emergency Demo
2024-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, Greater London, SW1A 2EG, United Kingdom
STOP DRAX: EMERGENCY DEMO!
Drax is the UK’s biggest carbon emitter. The UK gov has already approved DRAX’s planning application and is clearly intending to lock us in to dirty tree burning energy for decades to come. Paid for by your energy bills!
The UK gov is now considering giving £billions more in subsidies to tree burning polluters Drax and Lynemouth. Drax is already receiving £1.7m per day from UK bill payers to burn trees whilst making record profits. According to the consultation, the cost of new subsidies to UK bill payers could be anything up to £2.5 billion a year. This is money that will not be available to support a transition to genuinely renewable wind and solar power.
We say: no more. No more wasting our money on dirty tree burning. No more funding of an industry that is driving environmental injustice, wrecking ecosystems and ruining our chances at a liveable future by destroying the very forests we need to absorb carbon emissions.
It’s more important now more than ever to put pressure on our government and let them know that we will not stand by whilst £billions more could be given to polluters! Join us to take action.
Join us at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to demand an end to tree burning subsidies.
Please help us stop tree-burning power plants getting billions more by responding to the government’s consultation! The deadline is 29th February. If you have the time, please send a personalised response, but otherwise, please just add your details below. And please share this widely. Thank you.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-action-stop-new-subsidies-for-burning-trees-in-uk-power-stations

MPs have the power to stop these wood-burning subsidies and to transfer the funding to real climate solutions like home insulation and wind and solar power. This would create new green jobs and help protect forests, wildlife, communities and the climate.
For the sake of our planet, we need as many people as possible to speak out and tell their MPs to stop new tree-burning subsidies before the consultation closes on the 29th of February.
Will you write to your MP today to call on them to say no to new subsidies for burning trees in UK power stations?
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-action-please-call-on-your-mp-to-stop-new-subsidies-for-burning-trees
