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Boggin"Protesters told mega-polluter #Drax to ‘hit the road’ and don’t come back on the day of its AGM"
Musical protest!
DegrowthUK@anna_lillith
Oh that's good, we can add it to the Canadian timber and burn it in the UK at #Drax power station and pretend it is carbon neutral.
(irony alert)
ScienceCommunicatorProtests disrupt Drax AGM - Real Media - The View From Below
https://realmedia.press/drax-agm-2025/
> #Drax pockets huge ‘green’ subsidies in the #UK, but their #Mississippi wood pellet plant is killing and harming racialised communities, while the UK #Yorkshire plant is our biggest carbon emitter.
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/
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 […]
Juggling With Eggs‘#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.
‘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.’
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.
George BailyAs 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
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