London, UK. 13th April 2017. Environmental campaigners from Biofuelwatch and Axe Drax hand out fliers and speak with city workers outside the offices of Schroders, the major shareholders in Drax, the UK’s largest and most polluting power station, burning mainly coal from Colombia, where open cast mining is causing human rights abuses, land grabs and water and air pollution, as well as 13 millions of tons of wood pellets per year, mainly from clear cutting highly diverse coastal wetland forests in southern USA. Drax receives a huge £ per day subsidy from our electricity bills inten
London, UK. 13th April 2017. Environmental campaigners from Biofuelwatch and Axe Drax hand out fliers and speak with city workers outside the offices of Schroders, the major shareholders in Drax, the UK’s largest and most polluting power station, burning mainly coal from Colombia, where open cast mining is causing human rights abuses, land grabs and water and air pollution, as well as 13 millions of tons of wood pellets per year, mainly from clear cutting highly diverse coastal wetland forests in southern USA. 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 protest was held while the Drax AGM was taking place in York.
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