Questions Rise Over Drax Power Station Subsidies Amid Sustainability Scrutiny

Why are UK subsidies for Drax power station being questioned? Find out about sustainability doubts and calls to halt government funding.

#DraxPower #UKEnergy #Sustainability #GovernmentSubsidy #WoodPellets

https://newsletter.tf/why-drax-power-station-subsidies-questioned-wood-sustainability/

Drax power station's subsidies are under review due to concerns about the sustainability of its wood pellet fuel. This is a major change from previous support.

#DraxPower #UKEnergy #Sustainability #GovernmentSubsidy #WoodPellets

https://newsletter.tf/why-drax-power-station-subsidies-questioned-wood-sustainability/

Devastating Community Health Study on #Drax #WoodPellet Plant

Written by Naya Black, August 7th, 2024

"#GlosterMississippi is a small, rural, mostly Black community in Amite County, Mississippi. It spans 1.8 square miles with around 900 residents. Residents are facing the harsh reality of a median income below $15,000 in 2021.
Introduction of the #AmiteBioEnergy Pellet Plant

"In 2015, Amite BioEnergy, a part of the UK’s #DraxGroup, started making #WoodPellets pellets in Gloster. Industry markets wood pellets as #ecofriendly . They get big subsidies from the #EU to supposedly fight climate change. Drax has a permit to emit up to 25 tons of harmful #AirPollutants and 249 tons of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) per year. But since 2016, Drax has consistently gone over these limits. Drax even paid a $2.5 million fine for it.

What Types of Pollutants Do Wood Pellet Plants Produce?

"#WoodPelletPlants emit many #AirPollutants , including:

nitrogen oxides (#NOx)
#GreenhouseGas like carbon dioxide, methane, and sulfur dioxide
volatile organic compounds (#VOCs)
particulate matter (#PM) 2.5

"Sleep is critical to health, so 24/7 #NoisePollution is also a concern.

What Are the Short-term Effects of This Air Pollution?

"These air pollutants are harmful to residents breathing them in. They can cause:

coughing
trouble breathing
skin rashes
severe allergic reactions

What Are the Long-term Effects of This Air Pollution?

"The long-term effects of air pollution are #chronic. They’re also much worse than the short-term effects. Some are even life-threatening. Added to the short-term effects, the long-term effects can be:

shortness of breath
nausea
headaches
cardiovascular disease
lung disease
heart attack
stroke"

Read more:
https://dogwoodalliance.org/2024/08/devastating-community-health-study-on-drax-wood-pellet-plant/

#EnvironmentalRacism #AirPollution #ProfitOverPeople
#CorporateColonialism
#SaveCanadianForests #SaveUKForests #SaveCaliforniaForests #SaveTheForest
#OldGrowthForests #Greenwashing #EnvironmentalActivism
#BigForest #DraxPowerStation

Greenwashing energy company Drax is in the news again, this time for violating Louisiana's permitted limits for hazardous air pollutants.

Not only does Drax cut down Canada's old growth forests, it pollutes America too. The new Labour government in the UK should stop using our public money to subsidise this corporate welfare cheat.

#Drax #AirPollution #Louisiana #WoodPellets #Greenwashing #Forests #CleanAirAct #Environment

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-louisiana-british-mississippi-new-orleans-b2595275.html

#Fash much, #UK? #Preemptive arrests of #ClimateActivists, but it's perfectly fine to be a #FarRight #AntiImmigrant #Fascist?

Mass pre-emptive arrest of #ReclaimThePower #activists in #Yorkshire

Aug 8, 2024

22 held as police foil plot to bring #CompostToilets and #wheelchair track to #Drax #ClimateCamp

"UPDATE 13.30: the climate camp has now been cancelled

"Officers from the Metropolitan police this morning led local forces in a raid on Bentley Urban Farm in Doncaster, said eye witnesses. They arrested twenty two activists, who were preparing to transport infrastructure, sanitation and accessibility equipment to the upcoming climate camp at Drax power station.

"Crashing sounds were heard from outside the site as vehicles and equipment were impounded. The detainees were taken to York police station, where they are being held for conspiracy charges: in this case, to interfere with key national infrastructure at Drax Power Station in Selby between 8 and 13 August. Media repeated the police’s claim they are “not against protest but against crime”.

"This morning’s pre-emptive arrests, ahead of a peaceful protest, contrast sharply with the State’s failure to foil recent far right violence, said Reclaim the Power. 'Black and Brown communities are under attack with fire and bricks and the police have made the unfathomable decision to divert resources away from those communities to arrest 22 people taking equipment to make a peaceful climate protest safe and accessible', said the group in a statement."

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/08/mass-pre-emptive-arrest-of-reclaim-the-power-activists-in-yorkshire/

#UKPol #SilencingDissent #ClimateProtest #Activism #OldGrowthForest #WoodPellets #SaveTheForest

Large scale wood pellet production in the US is hurting poor and minority families. Same old story: Those without a voice are trampled upon by those who have or can pay for one.

https://youtu.be/IG-dYNchYmg?si=2Ybh04WwC8kIe3OM

#pollution #woodpellets #asthma #bigbusiness