The protest was outside Schroders, one of the largest investers in
Drax
with £209 m invested. Drax burns both coal and wood #axedrax
says 'leave the coal in the hole
and the wood in the woods.' Using wood is a fake decarbonisation project,
actually both
producing more carbon when generating electricity and cutting down
the area of wood
which remove carbon from the atmosphere.
City workers on their lunch break stopped to talk with the protesters
The UK government spends £1.6m a day of our money subsidising
Drax to created extra pollution - money that
is supposed to be subsidising 'green energy' is doing the opposite.
Without subsidies Drax would not be economic - and we would get more
cheap green energy
from wind and solar.
Drax mainly gets its coal from environmentally disastrous open mining
in Cerrejon Colombia, where
people are forcibly displaced, losing land and work and there is pollution
of air and water.
Most of the wood comes from the USA and causes environmental damage
there.
'Biomass Power is a fool's errand'
Handing out fliers outside the entrance to Schroders
The protesters were going on to protest outside another major investor in
Drax, but I left for home
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