#Drax denies use of #subsidy #loophole to avoid £639m payout to households

#Bloomberg alleges Drax idled an #electricity generating unit and resold its #biomass pellets rather than return money to bill payers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/02/drax-denies-use-of-subsidy-loophole-to-avoid-639m-payout-to-households #ToryPoliciesInAction #ProfitsBeforePeople

#Drax has published its latest financial results, showing earnings up 84% in the last 12 months to £731m!

The UK government must re-examine the billions it hands out in biomass subsidies every year and open its eyes to the impact of burning trees for energy on our #climate, forests, #wildlife, and people.

It’s time to invest in real, #sustainable solutions that benefit our planet and future generations.

https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/drax1?source=EM&subsource=NBRENAPEEM09TV&one_click=true

#Mordi is the #god of #sweep 🎵

#Resolution #C64 #retro #retrogaming #retroscene #retrocomputing #DRAX #mastoradio

https://invidious.sethforprivacy.com/watch?v=tuDHhp7selw

Drax, the UK's largest bioenergy supplier has been told by its own scientific advisers to stop calling biomass 'carbon neutral' - raising "difficult questions" about the future of the controversial energy form when its government subsidies expire in 2027.

#Drax #BioEnergy #CarbonNeutral #ClimateEmergency #Environment #Forests

https://news.sky.com/story/power-giant-drax-told-by-own-advisers-to-stop-calling-biomass-carbon-neutral-12866031

It’s interesting that #Tory MP Richard #Drax isn’t opposed to hundreds of asylum seekers being crowded onto a barge…no his problem with it is they will be docked in his constituency and have freedom to leave the barge.

Never forget his family’s wealth was built on denying people their freedom, chaining them up and enslaving them.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/05/asylum-seekers-to-be-housed-on-dorset-barge-home-office-confirms

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening or good night, #fedizens. Depending on your #timezone 😁.

#PandaSays #Drax #Dance #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.

"The power station operator Drax is applying intense pressure across (UK) government departments to influence energy policy in its favour, DeSmog can reveal.

In particular, the biomass giant is pressing the government to deliver key decisions that could hasten the adoption of a costly and controversial ‘carbon negative’ technology"

Of course, the wood pellets Drax burns are sourced from Canadian forests, some of which are #OldGrowth

#Drax #Energy #UKPolitics #Canada

https://www.desmog.com/2023/01/24/drax-lobbying-efforts-revealed-in-internal-treasury-memos/

Tory MP Richard #Drax who is still living off
the riches of his family’s vast slave plantation says #PublicSectorWorkers should be grateful the government saved their jobs during #Covid and should continue to put up with effectively slave working conditions and pay...I doubt he even bothered clapping on his doorstep of his huge #Dorset estate, because it was just a performative Tory action, what would be the point without a tv camera to see?

@TheEuropeanNetwork I grew up in #Dorset - home to the #Drax Estate. It’s circled by a miserable long wall that cars frequently crash into. Richard Drax before becoming a #Tory MP was a local journalist (BBC South Today). He and his family are still the beneficiaries of wealth derived from slavery. How many decedents of the slaves his family exploited are privately educated, living in a country pile with a safe seat in Parliament, using tax loopholes to maintain their wealth?

🎄 Just finished this holiday special and will definitely watch it on #Xmas again. Very nice indeed 🎄

#gotgholidayspecial #Drax #Mantis #RocketRacoon

The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Thoughts
#guardiansofthegalaxy #groot #mantis #starlord #drax #rocket #nebula #christmas #marvel #mcu

RT @robin_wood
Schaut euch an, wie unsere Zukunft in Deutschland nicht aussehen darf: das monströse Kraftwerk #Drax in Großbritannien verfeuert ganze wertvolle Wälder aus Kanada.
#StopFakeRenewables
#BigBadBiomass
#Energiewende
#Klimakrise https://twitter.com/biofuelwatch/status/1576899195055005696

Jobs are not good if the industry they work for is destroying the planet. #Drax should stop burning the trees and stop pretending to be green energy. It's giving the 🇬🇧 a bogus sense of achievement. We have a filthy power industry importing felled trees at huge carbon cost.
RT @DraxGroup: Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Drax will create and protect 10,000 jobs, rejuvenate Yorkshire & the Humber and help lev…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1523927751325106176