Stop Burning Trees Coalition
@stopburningtrees.bsky.social
The Stop Burning Trees Coalition is a coalition of groups that collectively oppose the burning of trees in power stations like Drax. https://linktr.ee/sbtcoalition
This is absurd. Drax is currently under investigation by the FCA, being sued by communities in Mississippi AND workers here in Yorkshire over relentless air pollution - and now we're handing them over £1m a day to keep burning trees and destroying our planet.
stopburningtrees.org/act
stopburningtrees.org/act
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is absurd. Drax is currently under investigation by the FCA, being sued by communities in Mississippi AND workers here in Yorkshire over relentless air pollution - and now we're handing them over £1m a day to keep burning trees and destroying our planet.
stopburningtrees.org/act
stopburningtrees.org/act
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Govt and Drax have now finalised this contract, with a slightly lower price of £110/MWh in 2012 prices (£153/MWh)
Key points remain as below
www.drax.com/press_releas...
Key points remain as below
www.drax.com/press_releas...
THREAD: New UK govt contract with Drax biomass power plant
* 4-yr contract 2027-2031
* £113/MWh (2012 prices – £155 in today's money)
* Output cap of 6TWh (<2% of UK supplies, cf recent yrs 12-15TWh)
* CfD cost ~£500m/yr
* 100% of fuel must be "sustainable", up from 70%
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* 4-yr contract 2027-2031
* £113/MWh (2012 prices – £155 in today's money)
* Output cap of 6TWh (<2% of UK supplies, cf recent yrs 12-15TWh)
* CfD cost ~£500m/yr
* 100% of fuel must be "sustainable", up from 70%
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November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Govt and Drax have now finalised this contract, with a slightly lower price of £110/MWh in 2012 prices (£153/MWh)
Key points remain as below
www.drax.com/press_releas...
Key points remain as below
www.drax.com/press_releas...
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Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
Industrial biomass isn’t clean or green. According to @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social, it’s more carbon-intensive than coal, destroys forests, and harms communities. It’s time to end biomass subsidies & the industry’s expansion. More: rachelcarsoncouncil.org/wp-content/u...
#BackDownBigBiomass
#BackDownBigBiomass
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Industrial biomass isn’t clean or green. According to @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social, it’s more carbon-intensive than coal, destroys forests, and harms communities. It’s time to end biomass subsidies & the industry’s expansion. More: rachelcarsoncouncil.org/wp-content/u...
#BackDownBigBiomass
#BackDownBigBiomass
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🎧 In a powerful new podcast, community leaders Dr Krystal Martin and Kathy Egalnd share the truth about how #Drax is fuelling "environmental racism", “pimping poverty,” & devastating lives - while pretending to save the planet, & reaping billions in subsidies.
corporatewatch.org/drax-the-cor...
corporatewatch.org/drax-the-cor...
Drax, the "corporate assassins" still lobbying for billions in subsidies - Corporate Watch
Drax likes to cast itself as a green champion – Britain’s largest power station has ditched coal and now runs on allegedly ‘sustainable’ wood pellets. But scratch beneath the branding and a different ...
corporatewatch.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎧 In a powerful new podcast, community leaders Dr Krystal Martin and Kathy Egalnd share the truth about how #Drax is fuelling "environmental racism", “pimping poverty,” & devastating lives - while pretending to save the planet, & reaping billions in subsidies.
corporatewatch.org/drax-the-cor...
corporatewatch.org/drax-the-cor...
Today the Gloster community is fighting Drax's appeal to expand its pollution
Together w 85 orgs inc @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
& @friends-earth.bsky.social we wrote to the Governor in support of Gloster, calling on Mississippi to uphold their decision and reject Drax's appeal
📸Sophia Knight
Together w 85 orgs inc @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
& @friends-earth.bsky.social we wrote to the Governor in support of Gloster, calling on Mississippi to uphold their decision and reject Drax's appeal
📸Sophia Knight
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today the Gloster community is fighting Drax's appeal to expand its pollution
Together w 85 orgs inc @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
& @friends-earth.bsky.social we wrote to the Governor in support of Gloster, calling on Mississippi to uphold their decision and reject Drax's appeal
📸Sophia Knight
Together w 85 orgs inc @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
& @friends-earth.bsky.social we wrote to the Governor in support of Gloster, calling on Mississippi to uphold their decision and reject Drax's appeal
📸Sophia Knight
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#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!
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Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station
Fifteen people are cleared of planning to lock themselves to objects during climate protest.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Activists cleared of locking on charges at Drax power station - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...
Fears Drax-powered AI centre may 'burn a tree every time it is used'
A new data centre which will get its energy from Drax power station "could end up burning a tree every time it is used", opponents say.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...
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#Drax being investigated by FCA
It should be unthinkable for the Govt to give further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
It should be unthinkable for the Govt to give further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
UK power company Drax investigated over source of ‘renewable’ fuel
Move by UK watchdog FCA relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#Drax being investigated by FCA
It should be unthinkable for the Govt to give further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
It should be unthinkable for the Govt to give further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
Drax shares plumet as FCA opens investigation into their sourcing.
It's past time the Government stops handing bill payer money over to fund Drax's dirty business.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It's past time the Government stops handing bill payer money over to fund Drax's dirty business.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK power company Drax’s shares plunge amid investigation over source of ‘renewable’ fuel
Investigation by UK watchdog relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Drax shares plumet as FCA opens investigation into their sourcing.
It's past time the Government stops handing bill payer money over to fund Drax's dirty business.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It's past time the Government stops handing bill payer money over to fund Drax's dirty business.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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How much more evidence of duplicitous behaviour does this government need before it realises it has to #AxeDrax?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social @axedrax.bsky.social @ccnfuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social @axedrax.bsky.social @ccnfuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK power company Drax investigated over source of ‘renewable’ fuel
Move by UK watchdog FCA relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
How much more evidence of duplicitous behaviour does this government need before it realises it has to #AxeDrax?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social @axedrax.bsky.social @ccnfuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social @axedrax.bsky.social @ccnfuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Why have I tabled a motion against the continued funding of Drax to burn US trees, to be heard on Monday in #HouseofLords?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Why have I tabled a motion against the continued funding of Drax to burn US trees, to be heard on Monday in #HouseofLords?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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#ThinkAgainRachel
💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis
🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉 open.substack.com/pub/andrewbo...
💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate and ecology
💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis
🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉 open.substack.com/pub/andrewbo...
💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate and ecology
June 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#ThinkAgainRachel
💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis
🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉 open.substack.com/pub/andrewbo...
💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate and ecology
💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis
🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉 open.substack.com/pub/andrewbo...
💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate and ecology
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We're hearing Clive Lewis might have been removed from the #Drax committee?
Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social?
@compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social?
@compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We're hearing Clive Lewis might have been removed from the #Drax committee?
Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social?
@compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social?
@compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
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Here's a US pellet mill that produces biomass, which is then sent to UK power stations.
Isn't it incredible that cutting down forests, turning them into pellets, shipping them thousands of miles, and setting them on fire, is completely carbon neutral?!
#CutCarbonNotForests
Isn't it incredible that cutting down forests, turning them into pellets, shipping them thousands of miles, and setting them on fire, is completely carbon neutral?!
#CutCarbonNotForests
May 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Here's a US pellet mill that produces biomass, which is then sent to UK power stations.
Isn't it incredible that cutting down forests, turning them into pellets, shipping them thousands of miles, and setting them on fire, is completely carbon neutral?!
#CutCarbonNotForests
Isn't it incredible that cutting down forests, turning them into pellets, shipping them thousands of miles, and setting them on fire, is completely carbon neutral?!
#CutCarbonNotForests
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On Monday, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant Drax huge new subsidies:
- AGAINST 2019 rules blocking subsidies for polluting biomass
- NO time limit
- NO carbon capture requirement
Any MP can attend and speak at the meeting (only the committee members will vote). Write to your MP:
- AGAINST 2019 rules blocking subsidies for polluting biomass
- NO time limit
- NO carbon capture requirement
Any MP can attend and speak at the meeting (only the committee members will vote). Write to your MP:
Emergency action - Please call on your MP to speak out against new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning at crucial vote on June 2nd
At 6pm on the 2nd of June, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant huge new subsidies to the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax.
Drax already ...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On Monday, a committee of 17 MPs will vote on whether to grant Drax huge new subsidies:
- AGAINST 2019 rules blocking subsidies for polluting biomass
- NO time limit
- NO carbon capture requirement
Any MP can attend and speak at the meeting (only the committee members will vote). Write to your MP:
- AGAINST 2019 rules blocking subsidies for polluting biomass
- NO time limit
- NO carbon capture requirement
Any MP can attend and speak at the meeting (only the committee members will vote). Write to your MP:
‼️URGENT: On the 2nd of June just 17 MPs will vote on legislation allowing the extension of Drax's tree burning subsidies.
➡️✍️Write to these MPs today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
➡️✍️Write to these MPs today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
Emergency action - Please contact the MPs who will vote on new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning
📣URGENT ACTION 📣
On the 2nd of June at 6pm a committee of just 17 MPs will vote on legislation to extend Drax’s subsidies.
💰If it passes, this legislation will open the door for Drax’s subsidies to...
actionnetwork.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‼️URGENT: On the 2nd of June just 17 MPs will vote on legislation allowing the extension of Drax's tree burning subsidies.
➡️✍️Write to these MPs today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
➡️✍️Write to these MPs today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
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🚨Emergency action: Gov trying to sneak through Drax subsidies🚨
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
Emergency Action: Call on your MP to say no to new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning
The UK Government is currently trying to bring in legislation to allow Drax to receive billions more in bill payer money. This legislation is currently going through Parliament, but our MPs have the c...
actionnetwork.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨Emergency action: Gov trying to sneak through Drax subsidies🚨
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
Emergency Action: Call on your MP to say no to new subsidies for Drax’s tree burning
The UK Government is currently trying to bring in legislation to allow Drax to receive billions more in bill payer money. This legislation is currently going through Parliament, but our MPs have the c...
actionnetwork.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨Emergency action: Gov trying to sneak through Drax subsidies🚨
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
🔥💸 In Feb, the Gov announced disastrous plans to use our energy bills to extend wood-burning subsidies for Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter
➡️Email your MP today: actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...
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Mississippi residents local to Drax facility have suffered increases in health problems associated with air pollution
Katherine & Krystal from Mississippi joined @axedrax.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
& others protesting at Drax's AGM in London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ez...
Mississippi residents local to Drax facility have suffered increases in health problems associated with air pollution
Katherine & Krystal from Mississippi joined @axedrax.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
& others protesting at Drax's AGM in London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ez...
Protests at Drax AGM
YouTube video by Real Media
www.youtube.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Mississippi residents local to Drax facility have suffered increases in health problems associated with air pollution
Katherine & Krystal from Mississippi joined @axedrax.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
& others protesting at Drax's AGM in London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ez...
Mississippi residents local to Drax facility have suffered increases in health problems associated with air pollution
Katherine & Krystal from Mississippi joined @axedrax.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
& others protesting at Drax's AGM in London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ez...
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In a new series we're exploring different renewable energy sources.
First up is clean, green, totally 100% sustainable (don't worry, we asked Drax) BIOENERGY.
For those who don't know, that's...
*checks notes*
burning trees in power stations. 🌳🔥
#CutCarbonNotForests
First up is clean, green, totally 100% sustainable (don't worry, we asked Drax) BIOENERGY.
For those who don't know, that's...
*checks notes*
burning trees in power stations. 🌳🔥
#CutCarbonNotForests
May 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
In a new series we're exploring different renewable energy sources.
First up is clean, green, totally 100% sustainable (don't worry, we asked Drax) BIOENERGY.
For those who don't know, that's...
*checks notes*
burning trees in power stations. 🌳🔥
#CutCarbonNotForests
First up is clean, green, totally 100% sustainable (don't worry, we asked Drax) BIOENERGY.
For those who don't know, that's...
*checks notes*
burning trees in power stations. 🌳🔥
#CutCarbonNotForests