London, UK. 13th April 2017. Environmental campaigners from Biofuelwatch and Axe Drax protest outside the offices of Schroders and Invesco, the major shareholders in Drax, the UK’s largest and most polluting power station. A giant cheque for £600m emphasizes that Drax receives a huge £ per day subsidy from our electricity bills intended to finance clean renewable energy despite scientific studies showing burning wood is environmentally disastrous, producing large amounts of carbon dioxide when burnt and eliminating for many years the capacity of the forests which are felled to absorb
London, UK. 13th April 2017. Environmental campaigners from Biofuelwatch and Axe Drax protest outside the offices of Schroders and Invesco, the major shareholders in Drax, the UK’s largest and most polluting power station. A giant cheque for £600m emphasizes that Drax receives a huge £ per day subsidy from our electricity bills intended to finance clean renewable energy despite scientific studies showing burning wood is environmentally disastrous, producing large amounts of carbon dioxide when burnt and eliminating for many years the capacity of the forests which are felled to absorb carbon. The coal it burns comes mainly from Colombia, where open cast mining is causing human rights abuses, land grabs and water and air pollution, and the 13 millions of tons of wood pellets per year mainly from clear cutting highly diverse coastal wetland forests in southern USA. The protest was held while the Drax AGM was taking place in York.
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