Events and Protests
Find out about upcoming talks, webinars, briefings and events where you can learn more, connect with others and engage with Biofuelwatch’s work.
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#AxeDrax, October 22
(and October 19th in London) Update: See here for a report on these two demos, including photos and links to video footage, and here for notice of the next one in April 2017. Demo and celebration at Drax Power Station (near South Gate), 22nd October 2016, 1 - 5 pm....
Extreme Energy Gathering Leeds – June 4th 2016
Coal Bioenergy Fracking POST Event Update: Extreme Energy Gathering in Leeds on Sat 4th June 2016 Thank you to all who attended this successful event. If anyone else would like to join the new local campaign against Drax, please get in touch –...
#AxeDrax AGM Protest 2016
Axe The Draxosaurus Scores of demonstrators took to the streets on April 20th 2016 to demand an end to subsidies for Drax power station, during the Drax PLC Annual General Meeting in the City of London. Highlight moments captured in this engaging video,...
UK’s largest power station hit by simultaneous protests at AGM in London and in Yorkshire, protesters demanding an end to subsidies
For immediate release London, 20th April 2016 - Environmental and human rights activists have gathered in London today for a colourful protest organised by Biofuelwatch [1] and Coal Action Network. [2] The protest targeted the AGM of Drax PLC, whose power station in...
Press release: Drax targeted at power station in Yorkshire, on day of company AGM
Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and the single greatest emitter of carbon in the UK and is now the biggest biomass power station in the world. People and Planet Sheffield, a human rights and environmental activist group, is protesting at Drax Power...
US forest destruction for UK power stations: Public meeting 14/3
What’s actually happening in US forests? Two United States landowners are coming to the UK on March 14th to share with us their stories of the destruction of forests in North Carolina. This event is an opportunity to meet with Jack Spruill & Terri Moffat, who...
System Change, Not Climate Change! Biofuelwatch events at COP21
In Paris for #COP21? The full Climate Space programme of events has just been published, and there's loads going on! Biofuelwatch is co-organising a number of them, including: December 5th - System change not climate change: uniting struggles for climate justice,...
Film premiere and public meeting (London 17/11): ‘Threatened Forests’ – from UK biomass energy policy
'Threatened Forests' (Morgane Productions, 2015, directed by Benoît Grimont) Join us for the UK premiere of this powerful new film ('Threatened Forests' trailer). The film shows the impacts of UK and EU biomass energy policies on native forests in North...
US National Day of Action: SOS! Stop the burning of bear habitat for electricity
Plantations are not Forests: Civil Society Demonstration Against World Forestry Congress in Durban
Thousands demonstrated outside the World Forestry Congress in Durban on 10th September. The protest, organised by the Civil Society Alternative Programme in Durban, denounced the false definition of industrial tree plantations as forests by the Food and Agriculture...
Giant White Elephant delivers over 110,000 signatures against White Rose
update September 2015: Drax has pulled out of the consortium which was to build this coal power station, which makes it highly unlikely that the proposal will go ahead. read the full background briefing here read the Press release here At 9am this morning,...
100k people say NO to new power station at Drax: petition hand-in
18th June 2015 · 09:00-10:00 · DECC 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW Join the facebook page here! The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is planning to award up to £1bn in support for a new coal and biomass power station at Drax. The White Rose Project,...