Axe Drax Press Release - Leeds 10.02.2022 CAMPAIGNERS PROTEST AGAINST DRAX AS IT FACES CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OVER RISKING WORKERS' HEALTH Climate justice campaigners have been demonstrating online and outside Leeds Crown Court today in support of health and safety...
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CAMPAIGNERS PROTEST AGAINST DRAX AS IT FACES CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OVER RISKING WORKERS’ HEALTH
Photo by Axe Drax Axe Drax Press Release Leeds 30th November 2021 Climate justice campaigners have been taking part in demonstrations online and at Leeds Magistrates Court today in support of health and safety charges against Drax Power Station, the UK’s largest...
Drax ‘burns its way through COP’ – campaigners demonstrate at forest greenwashing event
Glasgow 10th November 2021 - Climate justice campaigners have been taking part in demonstrations at COP26 in Glasgow today outside a World Bioenergy Association event featuring Drax, [1] and other bioenergy industry executives, to call for an end to Drax Power...
International Day of Action on Big Biomass!
Biofuelwatch joins groups from around the world to raise awareness of the impacts of large scale biomass. We have pulled together two videos for you to watch and share about some of the most common myths about bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, also known for...
Media release: Climate justice activists stage international “Forests Are Not Fuel” online protest during Drax’s AGM
21st April 2021, 11am For immediate release Forest and climate justice activists around the world are taking part in an online and physically distanced protest today to coincide with Drax Plc’s Annual General Meeting. Drax operates the world’s largest biomass power...
Forests Are Not Fuel, #AxeDrax online action
Thank you to everyone who took part in the action on the 21st April to protect forests and the climate #ForestsAreNotFuel #AxeDrax. Read article here from our volunteer Katy Brown in Liverpool Click here to read open letter to BEIS by groups in pellet supplying...
Burned: are trees the new coal
Screening Wednesday 9th June at 19:30 -21:00 BST If you’re free on Wednesday 9th June from 19:30, please join Biofuelwatch, West Bristol Climate Action and Cut Carbon not Forests for an online screening of the award-winning documentary “Burned: are trees the new...
Net Zero or Zero Ambition?
Several big polluters are gathering this week to celebrate the move towards “net zero” emissions. But climate, forest and human rights activists say this event offers false solutions and shows zero real ambition to address the climate crisis. Top sponsors of the ‘Net...
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Press release: Mass online “Love Trees Axe Drax” protest on Earth Day denounces Drax Plc
Climate campaigners join in Earth Day digital action to denounce the world’s biggest wood burner, Drax Power Station 22nd April 2020 - As Drax Plc holds its Annual General Meeting on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, nature and climate campaigners from across the UK...
Campaigners call on Government to stop Drax from fuelling environmental injustice, forest destruction and climate breakdown
Campaigners and communities call on Government to stop Drax from fuelling environmental injustice, forest destruction and climate breakdown For immediate release London, 9th October 2019 - A coalition of campaigners have gathered outside the Department for...
Axe Drax Protest – Thank you to everyone who came along!
Thank you to everyone who joined us to stand against extractivism. On Wednesday 9th October, we gathered outside the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in London to call out Drax Power station and the impacts it's having on forests,...
Protests against International Aviation Emissions Strategy – Press Release
Planned protests in Montreal at International Aviation Assembly (24th of September to 4th of October) // New briefing exposes plans for palm oil in the airplane tank & aviation emissions scheme (CORSIA) as set to fail to reduce aviation emissions Montreal/ Vienna,...
Biofuelwatch is delighted to support the Global Climate Strike on Friday 20th September
On Friday 20th September, millions of people around the world will go on strike and join young climate protestors on the street to call on governments to take urgent climate action. Biofuelwatch is delighted to join the Global Climate Strike and we stand in...
Burned Screening and Q&A in Amsterdam, 27th July
Where? NieuwLand, Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 93-95, 1093 XN Amsterdam When? 7pm for a 7.30 pm start [add-this] What? "Burned - Are Trees the New Coal?" is an award-winning documentary that reveals the destruction of southern US forests for biomass energy, much of it...
Drax wins award for…?
Last week, Drax Plc received a prize for “Green Innovation“ at the Humber Renewables Awards for its carbon capture efforts - despite the fact that no carbon is actually being stored at the power station. Drax announced last year that it would start trialling BioEnergy...
Please join The Time is Now mass lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies
Please join “The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People” and ask your MP to take urgent climate action by redirecting huge renewable energy subsidies from biomass burning to genuine renewables On Wednesday 26th June thousands of individuals and...
Please Join The Time is Now Mass Lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies – Information Page
Join "The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People" and urge your MP to demand that renewable energy subsidies be redirected from high-carbon biomass to true renewables. On Wednesday 26 June thousands of individuals and organisations will gather in...