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ScienceCommunicator

A spokesperson for 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 can keep doing this until 2031 doesn’t make sense. This decision needs to be urgently revisited.” extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/03

Extinction Rebellion UK · Our energy bills are torching the planet - Extinction Rebellion UKActivists 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 […]
#UK#environment#ClimateChange
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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.

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Juggling With Eggs

‘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.’

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Juggling With Eggs

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.

theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

The Guardian · Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slaveryBy Alex Preston
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George Baily

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:

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ScienceCommunicator

? 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 after accepting their donation

No coherent plan across the entire

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

extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/01

Extinction Rebellion UK · It's 2025... now what? - Extinction Rebellion UKLack 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 […]
#XR
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"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)"

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

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

Now what extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/01

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Just written a letter to my MP, condemning the recent decision to grant further tree burning subsidies to Drax. This decision harms bill payers, forests, communities and our planet.
You can take the same action here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge
#UKpolitics #sustainability #Drax

actionnetwork.orgUrgent Action: Stop Disastrous Decision to Extend Drax’s Subsidies The Government has just made the disastrous decision to hand billions more in subsidies to tree burners Drax and Lynemouth. This is a decision to push up emissions, energy bills and profits for Drax’s shareholders. Rather than listening to the science, the Government is pouring billions more into the economic black hole of Drax. While this decision is disappointing, it is not the end of this campaign. The fight to end dirty tree burning, and to transition to genuinely clean energy and green jobs is far from over. We need our MP’s to take action in Parliament and do everything they can to put a stop to this reckless decision. Please take the time today to make it clear to this Government and your MP that we will not stand by and allow them to pour our money into forest destruction and pollution.
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Richard Ashwell

Urgent Action: Stop Disastrous Decision to Extend Drax’s Subsidies

The Government has just made the disastrous decision to hand billions more in subsidies to tree burners #Drax and Lynemouth. This is a decision to push up emissions, energy bills and profits for Drax’s shareholders. Rather than listening to the science, the Government is pouring billions more into the economic black hole of Drax.

While this decision is disappointing, it is not the end of this campaign. The fight to end dirty tree burning, and to transition to genuinely #CleanEnergy and #GreenJobs is far from over.

We need our MP’s to take action in Parliament and do everything they can to put a stop to this reckless decision. Please take the time today to make it clear to this Government and your MP that we will not stand by and allow them to pour our money into forest destruction and #pollution.

Write to your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge

actionnetwork.orgUrgent Action: Stop Disastrous Decision to Extend Drax’s Subsidies The Government has just made the disastrous decision to hand billions more in subsidies to tree burners Drax and Lynemouth. This is a decision to push up emissions, energy bills and profits for Drax’s shareholders. Rather than listening to the science, the Government is pouring billions more into the economic black hole of Drax. While this decision is disappointing, it is not the end of this campaign. The fight to end dirty tree burning, and to transition to genuinely clean energy and green jobs is far from over. We need our MP’s to take action in Parliament and do everything they can to put a stop to this reckless decision. Please take the time today to make it clear to this Government and your MP that we will not stand by and allow them to pour our money into forest destruction and pollution.
#Trees#Biomass#Climate
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