MORE than 50 activists disrupted Drax’s annual investor meeting in London today, bringing proceedings to a halt for an hour.

The firm operates a wood-burning power plant in Yorkshire, which has received some £6 billion in green subsidies, while operating as Britain’s largest carbon emitter.

Despite a BBC investigation finding that it has burned wood from rare forests in Canada, the firm is set to continue to receive taxpayer money until at least 2031. 

Activists blocked the entrance to the venue, preventing shareholders from entering, and dropped a large banner reading “Drax Kills.”

Inside, activists physically disrupted proceedings, rushing to the stage shouting “Drax kills,” before the meeting was forced to close.

Axe Drax spokesperson Sam Johnson said: "We’ve seen over the last year repeated desperate attempts from Drax to silence dissent — from spending millions working with the police to shut down peaceful protest, to silencing whistleblowers. 

“Drax’s operations target poor, black communities and are leaving people unable to leave their homes, reliant on oxygen tanks to survive, their operations are destroying vital forests and driving us ever closer to climate collapse all whilst ripping off bill payers in this country.

“We will not be intimidated by Drax — Drax is killing people.”

On Saturday, Axe Drax reported that one of its supporters was arrested and had their house raided following a protest outside one of Drax’s biggest suppliers, Enviva.

Their phone and laptop were seized and they were denied a phone call for 13 hours.

They are alleged to have written on some windows and whiteboard with a dry wipe pen in a private office and have been released under investigation for burglary.