ScienceCommunicatorMar 31

A spokesperson for #ExtinctionRebellion said: “Even the government’s own advisors say we need to end burning trees in power stations by 2027. So the fact that the government has committed billions of pounds of public money so #Drax can keep doing this until 2031 doesn’t make sense. This decision needs to be urgently revisited.” https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/03/04/our-energy-bills-are-torching-the-planet/

#UK #environment #ClimateChange

Our energy bills are torching the planet - Extinction Rebellion UK

Activists from Extinction Rebellion North and Axe Drax staged a banner-burning action on the day that tree-burning power station Drax announced earnings of over one billion pounds in 2024. The action called for an end to public money to burning trees for electricity. The action came the day after the Climate Change Committee said large […]

Extinction Rebellion UK
Show threadJuggling With EggsMar 30

‘#Drax of Drax Hall is not just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it is an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past.

Lashmar’s book is a necessary, damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent.’

This is not my first post about the Drax family. Their exploitation and the dominance they still hold deserves to be known and scrutinised…and ultimately there must be a reckoning.

Show threadJuggling With EggsMar 30

‘James #Drax, the family’s 17th-century patriarch, was not merely a plantation owner but the founder of a system of control and punishmen.

Arriving in #Barbados in 1627, he was instrumental in shifting the island’s labour force from white indentured servants to enslaved Africans. By the 1640s, he had devised the plantation model that would dominate the #Caribbean for centuries – a vast industrial machine, extracting staggering wealth through calculated cruelty.’

Juggling With EggsMar 30

Great news on the exposing the current British elite’s links to the slave trade.

A certain rightwing Brexiteer #Dorset ex #Tory MP who really does deserve to be better known for his family’s cruelty, exploitation and the fact their wealth was entirely built on #slavery, is the subject of a new book…’#Drax of Drax Hall’ by Paul Lashmar.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/drax-of-drax-hall-by-paul-lashmar-review-forensic-expose-of-a-british-dynasty-built-on-slavery

Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery

This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery

The Guardian
George BailyMar 22
As soon as anyone actually invents carbon capture that works, there is zero chance that C is being sequestered somewhere. It will be fed into the system to be burned and will not count. See: #drax
Patrick SudlowMar 21
'Ask Mississippi to Axe Drax’s Pollution'
https://dogwoodalliance.org/actions/axe-draxs-ms-permit-2025/?sourceid=1119306&ms=Blog
#uk #drax #usa #pollution #climatechange
ScienceCommunicatorMar 2

#ClimateChange? Leaders or crooks?

To say our leaders have ‘failed’ implies they tried

No commitment to a stronger net zero target

Pledging billions of taxpayers’ money on non-solutions lobbied for by oil companies

Expanding aviation

Subsidising the burning of trees by #Drax after accepting their donation

No coherent plan across the entire #economy

Locking up activists using laws written by the #FossilFuel companies while the #climate criminals walk free

https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/01/17/its-2025-now-what/

#XR

It's 2025... now what? - Extinction Rebellion UK

Lack of action is a death sentence for millions of people, including people right here in the UK. XRUK on 2025, at a glance: It’s now official that in 2024, global average temperatures exceeded the target limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Meanwhile, the mega rich billionaires in the world burned through their carbon budget […]

Extinction Rebellion UK
ScienceCommunicatorMar 2

"Can you imagine being the UK's biggest emitter of CO2, having already been awarded £7bn in 'green subsidies' and set to receive another £2bn (XR)"

#Drax power station in the #UK burns wood, contributing to deforestation & CO2 emissions, & they lie & call that "green" (they know that's #greenwash) https://youtu.be/v3gABWJhIuw?feature=shared

Drax is simply another example of human dishonesty, especially in regards to the #environment, on an industrial scale.

Now what https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/01/17/its-2025-now-what/

#ClimateChange #XR

Beep starring Ambika Mod

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UK Railway and Transport NewsFeb 28
GBRf goes all HVO over Drax http://dlvr.it/TJDy71 #Class60 #Class66 #Class99 #drax
GBRf goes all HVO over Drax - VibeWire Magazine

British rail freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRf) has pledged to run its roster of biomass trains on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). The operator supplies imported…

VibeWire Magazine - Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything
RailpageFeb 28
GBRf goes all HVO over Drax http://dlvr.it/TJDwf2 #Class60 #Class66 #Class99 #drax
GBRf goes all HVO over Drax - VibeWire Magazine

British rail freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRf) has pledged to run its roster of biomass trains on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). The operator supplies imported…

VibeWire Magazine - Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything