London, 23/04/2014. Biofuel Watch, supported by other organizations, held a demonstration outside The Grocers' Hall in the City of London to protest against big biomass and coal. From the website of the organisers: <<Drax power station in Yorkshire is converting 3 of its 6 units to run on biomass. Since its last AGM it has converted and opened one unit and burned up to 5.5 million tonnes of green wood (mostly imported) - that's equivalent to more than half of the UK's annual wood...
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London, 23/04/2014. Biofuel Watch, supported by other organizations, held a demonstration outside The Grocers' Hall in the City of London to protest against big biomass and coal. From the website of the organisers: <<Drax power station in Yorkshire is converting 3 of its 6 units to run on biomass. Since its last AGM it has converted and opened one unit and burned up to 5.5 million tonnes of green wood (mostly imported) - that's equivalent to more than half of the UK's annual wood production. At full capacity this unit alone will have netted them £190 million in subsidies. When all 3 units are converted they'll be looking at almost £700 million a year – paid for through our increased fuel bills. What's more, Drax's conversion actually allows it to burn more coal long into the future. Even after the conversion they'll be burning some 3.7 million tonnes of coal every year from opencast mines in the UK and imported from places like Colombia, where communities have been forced off their land for expanding mines. Come along to our Drax AGM protest to call for an end to big biomass and coal, an end to subsidies that allow operators like Drax to keep profiting from destruction, and for genuinely climate and people-friendly alternatives>>.

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