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With a new Government just elected it’s vital that we ensure the new Secretary of State for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, is aware of the devastating impacts of the wood biomass industry, and stops any new subsidies for tree burning.
Earlier this year, the previous Government proposed and consulted on brand new subsidies to fund planet-wrecking tree burning at power stations like Drax in Yorkshire and Lynemouth in Northumberland. Ed Miliband has the power to stop these subsidies in its tracks, but we need your help to make him do it.
Please write to Ed Miliband today asking him to stop the new subsidies for burning trees in UK power stations.
The climate impacts of new subsidies for burning trees would be catastrophic. Drax is the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner. In 2023 alone, Drax emitted over 11 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Drax is already receiving nearly £2m per day from UK bill payers to burn trees whilst making record profits. According to the consultation, the cost of new subsidies to UK bill payers could be anything up to £2.5 billion a year. This is money that will not be available to support a transition to genuinely renewable wind and solar power.
New subsidies would allow both power stations to keep burning trees and destroying forests at our expense for years to come, with no time limit for the funding mentioned in the Government consultation.
And new subsidies for burning wood won’t do anything to lower our energy bills, or help to tackle the climate emergency with scientists around the world warning that burning wood for energy increases global warming for decades to centuries.
We say: no more. No more wasting our money on dirty tree burning. No more funding of an industry that is driving environmental injustice, wrecking ecosystems and ruining our chances at a liveable future by destroying the very forests we need to absorb carbon emissions.
For the sake of our planet, we need as many people as possible to speak out and tell Ed Miliband to stop new tree-burning subsidies. With a new Government, we have the chance to get these proposals entirely rejected. But we need your help to do this.
Will you write to Ed Miliband today to call on him to say no to new subsidies for burning trees in UK power stations?
