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Protesters demand government end ‘green’ subsidies for Britain's largest carbon emitter
Greenpeace, Axe Drax, Friends of the Earth and Stop Burning Trees Coalition protest outside DESNZ to call for an end to Drax subsidies and for genuine clean power

PROTESTERS descended on Westminster today to demand that the government stop using taxpayers’ money to bankroll the destruction of forests.

More than 100 environmental activists from groups including Axe Drax, Fossil Free London and Greenpeace gathered outside the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, calling for an end to the vast subsidies granted to the Drax biomass power plant.

The North Yorkshire plant is Britain’s largest carbon emitter, yet receives almost £1.5 million a day for burning biomass wood chips, a fuel source that Drax claims is “carbon neutral.”

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