Stop Burning Trees Coalition Welcome Call: Take action to stop the destructive biomass industry!

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Who are the Stop Burning Trees coalition?

The Stop Burning Trees Coalition is a coalition of groups that collectively oppose burning of trees in power stations like Drax. We're made up of environmental groups, trade unions and campaigns across the North and the UK.

About Drax

Drax, located in Yorkshire, is one of our main focuses as the worlds biggest tree burner. They make claims about bold aims of becoming the first carbon negative power station by... burning forests. Since 2015, Drax has been burning more wood than the UK produces each year, making it the UK's single largest carbon emitter.

The (failed) logic behind this is that there is no difference between trees dying and rotting than entire forests being clear-cut by huge machines, compressed and dried in huge factories, shipped across the Atlantic ocean, delivered to Drax and be incinerated at a rate of ~ 400kg per second. We'll let you make up your own mind on that one!

In fact, on their own website , Drax quotes their carbon emissions as 12,795 ktCO2e... yet they also admit that CO2 emissions resulting from generation are miraculously counted as zero on paper. Despite the fact that the EU regulations that permit this practice were protested in this letter signed by over 800 scientists.