Three days before the national Demonstration and Celebration outside Drax power station in Yorkshire,( Biomassive held a banner protest outside the government department now responsible for energy policy (BEIS). of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. ( Drax is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass and petcoke, and its name comes from the nearby village of ...the very same name )

Telling the new Dept. of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy that they should follow the science advisers and not the dollar: and remove subsidy from Biomass electricity, whose negative effects upon r the climate, forests, biodiversity and the indigenous people it is estimated that power company Drax alone will get around £600m per year in subsidized payments

activists and demonstrators listened to guest speakers from Colombia, from an area where coal is mined and exported to be burnt in the UK .
she spoke through an interpreter from Germany , and told of the suffering which begins with displacement, pollution and loss of food and water sovereignty as a result of opencast coal mining. On the International Day of Action on Biomass, protesters from the AxeDrax campaign outside the new Dept of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy urge the government to acknowledge the scientific research that shows that producing electricity from Bio fuels is harmful to the climate, forests, biodiversity and people and remove the subsidy which encourages its use.