The general election that is scheduled for July 4, 2024, presents a significant chance to demand that subsidies for tree burning in UK power stations are stopped. We are requesting that all candidates running in the general election pledge to support the Stop Burning Trees Election/ Candidate Pledge which states “I support an end to all subsidies for burning wood in power stations.” The prospective parliamentary candidates who have endorsed the pledge are listed below in order of Constituency. We will add the most recent signatures to the list as soon as we can. If your name is not on the list of prospective lawmakers for the general election, click this link to learn how to get in touch with them. If you’re a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the general election is not listed you can click here to find out how you can contact them.
| First name | Last name | CONSTITUENCY | Political Party | QUOTE: WHY HAVE YOU SIGNED THIS PLEDGE? |
| Dave | Doogan | Angus And Perthshire Glens | SNP | Because these subsidies are disgraceful and massive scale biomass is not climate compatibles |
| Alan | Reid | Argyll Bute & South Lochaber | Liberal Democrat | |
| Jason | Zadrozny | Ashfield | Ashfield Independent | I have signed this pledge to end subsidies from tree burning in UK power stations. As a keen environmentalist, I have made protecting our environment my main driver as Leader of Ashfield District Council and will continue this work if elected as the new MP. |
| Chris | Nevile | Banbury | Climate party | The UK needs to prioritise clean renewable energy urgently . The Grid can move to this within 5 years and there will be no further need for carbon fuel generation |
| Arron | Baker | Banbury | Green Party | Trees are a key part of our biodiversity and we need to protect and increase our woodlands and forests |
| Simon | Anthony | Barking | Green Party | Trees should grow, then either be used or allowed to fall and rot naturally. They give us so much, we should take far less. |
| Helen | Tamblyn-Saville | Bassetlaw | Liberal Democrat | Climate change is an existential threat, and we must act to keep global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees. |
| Wera | Hobhouse | Bath | Liberal Democrats | |
| Dom | Tristram | Bath | Green Party | It is important that we end these subsidies. |
| Marsha | de Cordova | Battersea | Labour Party | |
| Ben | Foley | Bedford | Green Party | |
| Ian | Middleton | Bicester and Woodstock | Green Party | It is illogical to grow trees to help capture carbon and then release the same carbon by burning the trees. There are far more advanced and environmentally friendly methods of creating power, we should be investing in those. |
| Joe | Salmon | Bournemouth East | Green Party | |
| Celia | Hickson | Bradford East | Green Party | |
| Freya | Summersgill | Brentford and Isleworth | Green Party | We need to have honest conversations about how we produce our energy. |
| Tim | Norman | Bridlington and the Wolds | Yorkshire Party | Emissions need to be cut to a minimum and especially the destruction of forests create a double whammy and both need to be stopped to minimise the Climate Change Crisis. |
| Sian | Berry | Brighton Pavilion | Green | Instead of burning trees for energy we need a coherent future facing energy policy for a greener fairer future for us all |
| Anna | Williams Westwood | Burton and Uttoxeter | The Green Party | |
| Owain | Sutton | Bury North | Green Party | |
| Louise | McDaid | Central Ayrshire | Socialist Labour Party | The SLP wants the end to deforestation which has already destroyed large areas of rain forests and woodlands worldwide. If one traces back CO2 emissions to a time before deforestation worldwide it can be seen that the rainforests and woodlands generally were the main protector against CO2. We would end all subsidies (public money) to companies who burn our trees. |
| Daniel | Wilson | Cheltenham | Green Party | Tree burning is not green energy |
| Mark | Tebbutt | Chorley | Green Party | Burring trees emits more carbon than coal and most of the wood comes from old growth forests in the USA and Canada and makes no sense when we have renewables and energy storage. |
| Martin | Powell-Davies | Chorley | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | “There aren’t many more outrageous examples as to how big business continues to prioritise profit over the planet – even while pretending to be “green” than this scandal” |
| Mags | Hall | Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy | Scottish Green Party | |
| Matthew | Snedker | Darlington | Green Party | I believe that renewable energy subsidies should not be spent on supporting inefficient, high-carbon and polluting wood-burning power stations that are fuelling injustice and making the climate and nature emergencies worse. |
| Clare | Slater | Daventry | Green Party | Burning trees is not the answer to climate change. We have technology for true clean energy without devastating forests and the vital carbon sink and habitat they provide |
| Helen | Wetherall | Derbyshire Dales | True and Fair Party | |
| Kelda | Boothroyd | Derbyshire Dales | Green Party | Subsidies should be for the best solution. This is totally clean energy like solar and home insulation to reduce people’s bills. |
| Lisa | Scott | Dorking and Horley | Green | out planet is not for profit |
| Karl | Drinkwater | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | Green Party | I’ve been an environmental campaigner since 1990! 🙂 |
| Kate | Crossland | ealing central and acton | Green | |
| Richard | Knight | East Hampshire | Green Party | I know about this and this is greenwashing. |
| Mike | Munson | Eastbourne | Green Party | For Climate Justice |
| Jo | Phillips | Edinburgh South | Scottish Greens | |
| Luke | Balnave | Edmonton & Winchmore Hill | Green Party | The fallacy of wood grown for burning; and moreover burning precious ancient woodland with all the increasingly rare sanctuary it once provided for a multitude of threatened, such as that perpetuated by Drax, is an act of environmental vandalism and grotesque greenwashing in the extreme. Moreover providing subsidies for these private entities to burn woodland, when it should be protecting i believe to be an environmental crime conducted by the government. Drax has no place on a habitable planet |
| Anna | Sabine | Frome and East Somerset | Liberal Democrat | |
| Rachel | Cabral | Gateshead Central and Whickham | Green Party | |
| Kieran | Pritchard | Gower | Plaid Cymru | |
| Chris | Evans | gower | green party | We must end all carboniferous forms of power generation for true renewables. Faux solutions like wood burning are just greenwash. |
| Zöe | Franklin | Guildford | Liberal Democrats | |
| Samuel James | Jackson | Halifax | Liberal Democrats | Producing supposedly green energy by burning wood imported from overseas is self-defeating. |
| Martin | Hey | Halifax | Green Party | The Green Party and myself are committed to a truly sustainable future |
| Natalie | Sommers | Harwich and North Essex | Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats are in favour of withdrawing subsidies for biomass.Renewable energy subsidies should not be spent on supporting inefficient, high-carbon and polluting wood-burning power stations. |
| Freddie | van Mierlo | Henley and Thame | Liberal Democrats | |
| Diana | Toynbee | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Green Party | |
| Ryk | Downes | Leeds North West | Liberal Democrat | |
| Carol | Weaver | Leicester South | Liberal Democrats | |
| Amelia | Jones | Leigh and Atherton | Green Party | |
| Robert | Watson | Louth and Horncastle | Green Party | |
| Andrew | Cooney | Maidenhead | Green Party | |
| Parham | Hashemi | Manchester Central | Workers Party | I am committed to protecting our planet. |
| Sam | Easterby-Smith | Manchester Withington | The Green Party | Burning wood for electricity generation is ridiculous – it flies in the face of achieving decarbonisation and meeting our climate goals. The practice should have been stopped years ago. |
| Richard | Kilpatrick | Manchester Withington | Liberal Democrat | |
| Brian | Mathew | Melksham and Devizes | Liberal Democrats | |
| catherine | read | Melksham and Devizes | The Green Party | Growing trees which absorb carbon only to be chopped down and burnt which then release the carbon is conuterproductive and ridiculous. Paying for that to be done is criminal and that money should be going to subsidise renwable energy from the sun, wind and water. |
| Vikki | Slade | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Liberal Democrats | Burning trees will not support our journey to Net Zero. Trees lock in carbon, and burning them undermines this as well as impacting biodiversity. We need to move to genuinely green solutions |
| David | Watts | Newark | Liberal Democrats | |
| James | McDaid | North Ayrshire and Arran | Socialist Labour Party | |
| Chloe | Turner | North Cotswolds | Green Party | Our Green Party manifesto has a clear commitment that we would “We would end the practice of importing wood for burning at the Drax power station and end subsidies for biomass.” |
| Ellie | Chowns | North Herefordshire | Green Party | |
| Ben | Price | Norwich North | Green Party | |
| Nadia | Whittome | Nottingham East | Labour | |
| Layla | Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats are in favour of withdrawing subsidies for biomass |
| Andrew | Davies | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Green | |
| Vivien | Lichtenstein | Queen’s Park and Maida Vale | Green Party | |
| Ishtiaq | Ahmad | Rotherham | Independent | I SUPPORT THE PLEDGE IN FULL |
| Javed | Bashir | Spen Valley | Independent | As an independent candidate, I sign this pledge reduce state subsidies that do not contribute to sustainable actions for climate change. |
| Martin | Price | Spen Valley | The Green Party | I see the trains regularly going to Drax and it makes me so sad. This is not a green solution but is marketed as one. Greenwashing at its worst. |
| Kathryn | Fisher | St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire | Green Party | |
| Manuela | Perteghella | Stratford-on-Avon | Liberal Democrats | I support the withdrawal of subsidies for biomass. |
| Dan | Jerrome | Stretford and Urmston | Green Party | We have a climate crisis and we need to stop burning trees. Trees offer so much value to our lives and we should protect them as much as possible. |
| Julian | Cusack | Suffolk Coastal | Green Party | |
| Jan | Millett | Tewkesbury | Green | |
| Cate | Cody | Tewkesbury | Green Party | The Green Party completely agrees with this pledge. |
| Alexandra | Jenner-Fust | Thornbury and Yate | Green | |
| Claire | Young | Thornbury and Yate | Liberal Democrats | The Liberal Democrats are committed to ending subsidies for biomass |
| Philip | Davies | Torfaen | Green Party | Tree burning power station must be stopped immediately. |
| Arran | Bowen-la Grange | Watford | Green Party | |
| Ian | Stotesbury | WATFORD | Liberal Democrats | Subsidising biomass is from a bygone era – renewable energy is the cheapest form of generating power and helps protect our planet and our natural environment. |
| Gita | Joshi | WEST BROMWICH | GREEN | PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE |
| Tim | Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | Liberal Democrat | |
| James | Monaghan | Wetherby & Easingwold | Liberal Democrats | |
| Peter | Reisdorf | Wirral West | Liberal Democrats | Burning trees is completely unsustainable. |
| Sonya | Mallin | Worthing West | Green Party | |
| Lars | Kramm | York Central | Green Party | x |