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Anti-Drax protesters disrupt London biomass conference
Drax Power Station near Selby

FOUR activists were removed from the Argus Biomass conference today after disrupting the Drax-sponsored event.

Posing as conference attendees, they interrupted a keynote speech by Drax chief sustainability officer Miguel Veiga-Pestana, challenging him on the company’s sustainability record and shouting: “Drax poisons people.”

The wood-burning power plant in Yorkshire, which claims to be sustainable, was recently awarded new government subsidies. 

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