Greenpeace respond to Drax profit announcement

Responding to the Drax profit announcement, Greenpeace UK’s head of UK climate, Mel Evans, said:

“It’s maddening to see Drax announcing record profits while its workers strike to avoid a real-terms pay cut, and its customers suffer fuel poverty.

“Meanwhile Drax’s biomass power is built on deforestation, environmental racism and questionable carbon accounting.

“The Government needs to end the subsidies supporting this unsustainable business, claw back these massive profits and use the money to insulate people’s homes and scale up real renewable energy like onshore and offshore wind and solar.”