Will you help us end Drax’s planet-wrecking tree burning?

Drax has already received billions of pounds in renewable subsidies from our energy bills to burn trees. Much of the wood that it burns comes from the clear-felling of some of the most biodiverse forests in the Southern USA, Canada and Europe, with catastrophic impacts on  wildlife, communities and the climate. 

The Guardian has reported that the Government could announce huge new subsidies for Drax’s planet-wrecking tree burning on Monday.

If granted, the new subsidies would likely cost UK bill payers hundreds of millions of pounds a year, and they would do nothing to lower UK energy bills or support a transition to clean energy. 

Instead, they would allow Drax to keep burning trees, polluting communities in the Southern USA and destroying forests at our expense for years to come, at enormous cost to human health, nature and the climate. 

Please help us to call on Ed Miliband to say no to new subsidies for burning trees in power stations. 

Instead, the Government should invest in genuine climate solutions like home insulation and wind and solar power that could create new green jobs and help to tackle both the climate emergency and the cost of living crisis.