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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jul 24

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at #Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.

Say NO! Sign and share!
#AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees

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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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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Jul 18

HXR just signed the open letter to Peter Kyle and @feryalclark.bsky.social at the Department for Science Innovation & Technology calling on @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to reject Drax's bid to burn even more trees to power AI Data Centres.

No more bungs for biomass!

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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

These #Drax pellet production sites in the US are twice as likely to be located in low-income communities of colour, putting the health of those already marginalised at greater risk. #DropDraxGrayling!
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An Axe Drax activist in London holds a megaphone outside PR company Grayling's offices

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Drax's pellet operations are driving environmental racism & violating the human right to clean air. Making wood pellets emits huge amounts of VOCs; including PM2.5, PM10 and formaldehyde. and hazardous air pollutants (the worst quantified level in the US). #AxeDrax #Grayling
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At lobbyist company Grayling in Leeds an activist from Axe Drax holds a scroll. The words "Drax owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US - Land & Climate Review.
Photo credit : Milo C

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

WHY did we SHUT DOWN #Grayling in #Leeds and #London?
Because lobbyist Grayling's so-called 'ethics policy' is in direct contradiction with having #Drax as a client 🙄
Uh oh! Something needs to be done #DropDraxGrayling!
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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

LISTEN: #Grayling lobbies for #Drax, fossil fuel giants and arms dealers. It's business is built on blood-stained money. Drax is burning forests from Europe, Canada & the US & their operations poison communities in the American South. And UK bill-payers pay for it all
#DropDrax #GraylingDropDrax
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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

LISTEN: #Grayling lobbies for #Drax, fossil fuel giants and arms dealers. It's business is built on blood-stained money. Drax is burning forests from Europe, Canada & the US & their operations poison communities in the American South. And UK bill-payers pay for it all
#DropDrax #GraylingDropDrax
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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Grayling is an international company working on direct political lobbying, alongside crisis management, PR and planning. They're one of the UK’s most powerful lobbying firms with connections to both Labour and Conservatives.
#GraylingDropDrax #AxeDrax
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Activists from Axe Drax hold a banner outside the UK London offices of Grayling PR company, lobbyists for Drax, in London. Banner reads "Grayling Drop Drax" Photo by Axe Drax

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

CRASHED: #Grayling offices in Leeds and London!
Our energy bills are subsidising the UK's biggest polluter - and #Grayling is one of #Drax's main lobbyists, responsible for aggressively lobbying the UK Government to hand them billions more in bill-payer subsidies. #AxeDrax @draxgroup.bsky.social
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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

This 61m scroll lists each of Drax's 11,378 environmental regulation breaches in the US. Lobbying firm Grayling helps Drax get handouts from the UK government to continue burning forests and polluting communities.

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

We've been to visit lobbying firm Grayling in Leeds calling on them to drop Drax. The government recently decided to continue giving Drax billions in subsidies from our energy bills - Grayling facilitates this

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now"
Couldn't agree more @dalevince.com
#AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees
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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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · May 5

Four scientists joined @axedrax.bsky.social to disrupt the Drax AGM last week.

We were joined by people from the US who came to protest the air pollution created by their pellet factories, some who were barred from entry.

Read more from @realmediapress.bsky.social

realmedia.press/drax-agm-2025/

Protests disrupt Drax AGM - Real Media - The View From Below

Drax pockets huge ‘green’ subsidies in the UK, but their Mississippi wood pellet plant is killing and harming racialised communities, while the UK Yorkshire plant is our biggest carbon emitter.

realmedia.press

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

We refuse to stand by as Drax makes money from killing people, forests and the environment, so we took #directaction at their AGM this morning.

If you'd like to see people standing up against corporate #greenwashing, donate and check out our next welcome call on Tuesday 13th May.

Links in bio!

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

🔴Drax SILENCED 2 frontline community members from Southern US — denying them the right to speak after they travelled thousands of miles to expose Drax’s crimes.

⏰By 11:30am, Drax shut the AGM down.
🌬️Cowards.
You can burn forests, Drax — but you can’t face the people.

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

🚧 Outside Drax’s AGM today, activists dropped a massive banner calling out the truth:

“DRAX KILLS: PEOPLE, FORESTS, PLANET.” ☠️🌳🌍 #AxeDrax

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

🚨Drax AGM SHUT DOWN while execs🏃‍♂️hide from the truth and refuse to listen to frontline community members 🎤✊

#AxeDrax #ClimateJustice 🌍🔥

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

📍LONDON: Join the Stop Burning Trees Coalition protest OUTSIDE the AGM!

⏰ 9:30am today
📍Convene Sancroft, Rose Street, Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DQ
Bring your energy. Bring your rage. Let’s #AxeDrax together. 🌍✊

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

📣 That’s why we’re taking action.

💥 Join @axedrax.bsky.social
today to demand an end to tree-burning, toxic pollution & public money for destruction.

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

Meanwhile, Drax pockets billions in UK subsidies — your money — for wrecking the planet.

There is nothing sustainable about this.
It’s corporate greed dressed up as climate action.

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

The pollution from Drax’s supply chains causes:
☣️ Asthma
💔 Heart disease
🧬 Cancer
💀 Death
And it disproportionately affects poor & Black communities. This is environmental racism.

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

Drax burns millions of tonnes of wood every year — entire forests clear-cut and shipped across oceans.

This isn’t "clean" or "green" energy.
It’s industrial-scale deforestation. 🌳➡️💨

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · May 1

🚨 BREAKING: Drax's AGM is TODAY 🚨
Drax is:
🔥 The UK’s biggest carbon emitter
🌲 The world’s biggest tree burner
☠️ Poisoning communities
💰 Raking in billions in public subsidies
Here’s what they don’t want you to know 🧵👇

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · Apr 25

#AxeDrax 1/3

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant

Spending watchdog warns £6.5bn in funding may not offer value for public money amid ongoing sustainability concerns

www.theguardian.com

Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Apr 25

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