Action on climate emergency
Drax pulls out of the government’s climate plan, meaning that long standing commitments by Drax that it would ‘help keep the lights on’ are now in serious doubt. The biomass company, which generates energy by burning wood pellets imported to its North Yorkshire plant near Selby, has controversially been backed by successive British governments since …
Less carbon capture investment is to be made by Drax just weeks after the government agreed to pay extra public subsidies worth about half a billion pounds a year to help the company develop its carbon capture project after 2027, as we recently reported. The Drax Group said it will provide less carbon capture investment …
Drax carbon capture and AI is now in the news as Artificial Intelligence use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water. It also indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs, as Yale Environment 360 reports. …
Drax will raise carbon emissions as thousands marched in London yesterday demanding action on polluted water. The Guardian reported earlier today that Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire, will keep raising the levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere until the 2050s despite using carbon capture technology, according to scientific research. An earlier study …
No more subsidies for Drax. Fossil Free North Yorkshire (FFNY) along with other environmental groups have called on Ed Miliband Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero not to agree any extension of subsidies for tree burning power stations at Drax in Selby and Lynemouth in Northumberland. In a letter to the Secretary …
Burning household rubbish a “disaster for the climate” the BBC reports having just released a major investigation into incineration. It found that nearly half of the rubbish produced in UK homes, including increasing amounts of plastic, is now being incinerated. Scientists warn it is a “disaster for the climate” – and some are calling for a …
Drax the largest CO2 emitter was responsible for four times more carbon emissions than the UK’s last remaining coal-fired plant last year, despite taking more than £0.5bn in clean-energy subsidies in 2023, Jillian Ambrose the Guardian’s correspondence reported on 9 August. The power station near Selby in North Yorkshire burns wood pellets imported from North …
Taxpayer billions for Drax carbon capture, it is claimed, are being made to a company that generates around 4% of the country’s power and 9% of the UK’s renewable electricity by output and is seen as an energy source when weather conditions preclude significant wind and solar power generation. Drax has received government permission to …