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Stop Burning Trees Coalition
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The Stop Burning Trees Coalition is a coalition of groups that collectively oppose the burning of trees in power stations like Drax. https://linktr.ee/sbtcoalition
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 6d
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
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · 6d
$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...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · 11d
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
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 13d
🎧 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.

corporatewatch.org/drax-the-cor...
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 ...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · 13d
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...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · 13d
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
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · 13d
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
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · Sep 25
#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!
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".
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · Sep 25
Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station
Fifteen people are cleared of planning to lock themselves to objects during climate protest.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · Sep 26
Say NO to Drax's Dirty AI Data Centre

➡️✍️Sign the petition today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · Sep 26
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...
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.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Aug 29
Drax is scheduled to pocket £10 billion in subsidies.

That’s public money funding deforestation and destruction. It is time to #AxeDrax
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · Aug 28
#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...

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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
www.theguardian.com
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · Aug 28
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...
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...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · Aug 28
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’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
www.theguardian.com
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justtransitionw.bsky.social @justtransitionw.bsky.social · Aug 28
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Jun 21
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · Jun 7
#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
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · Jun 2
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
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Cut Carbon Not Forests @ccnfuk.bsky.social · May 23
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
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · May 29
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 ...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · May 29
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 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 ...
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · May 29
‼️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...
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...
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Romayne Phoenix @romaynephoenix.bsky.social · May 16
#CutCarbonNotForests
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · May 16
🚨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...
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...
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