The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as part of an ‘AI Growth Zone’ in Yorkshire. Drax claims that an AI data...
UK Campaign against Drax & biomass power subsides
Drax’s greenwashing and lobbying efforts in the UK
Summary: Drax uses advertising, lobbying meetings, donations, educational resources, academic research and sponsorship of events to gain public and political support for its tree burning and to present the company as benevolent and part of the climate solution when...
What’s wrong with the newly announced subsidies for burning wood for electricity?’ MP Briefing – March 2025
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‘What’s wrong with burning wood for electricity?’ MP Briefing – January 2025
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MP briefing on subsidies for biomass electricity by Cut Carbon Not Forests
Bioenergy: The Fake Renewable Energy Burning through the World’s Forests 1st August 2024 Click here to download the briefing. Click here to find out more about the Cut Carbon Not Forests coalition.
Video expose of Portuguese pellet supplier of Drax
video investigation by Biofuelwatch and Portuguese NGO Zero shows impacts of drax's pellet supplier pinewells on pine forests, including on natura 2000 site A new video investigation by Biofuelwatch and the Portuguese NGO ZERO reveals that the Pinewells pellet...
Climate activists stage musical protest over Government proposals for new tree-burning subsidies
Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees Press Release For immediate release Climate justice campaigners from across the UK environmental movement gathered outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)1 in London today in a colourful and...