BEIS building coated in paint by activists protesting Drax

BEIS building coated in paint by activists protesting Drax: An environmental campaign group covered the government building in orange paint as one of the the protests against energy firm Drax.This happened 2 weeks following Extinction Rebellion‘s campaigners gluing themselves to the same building’s walls.The protest is part of a sequence of other actions against Drax Group on the day the firm held its annual general meeting.Protesters joined up in Liverpool, Leeds, York, Hull and in London outside Drax’s AGM to campaign against the government’s backing for the Drax biomass power station.“The criminal injustice of Drax fills me with despair & needs to stop.“Drax power station is accelerating the climate crisis, whilst being labelled as the solution, costing taxpayers in their energy bills & is in court with the HSE for their work conditions.” the person that covered the building in paint stated.It was announced, a few days earlier, that Drax gained £893 million in government subsidies for burning forest biomass in 2021.A spokesperson for BEIS stated: “People’s day-to-day lives should not be disrupted & any criminal activity will not be tolerated.“Sustainable biomass is considered a renewable, low carbon energy source & forms a key part of our plan to strengthen Britain’s energy security.”A spokesperson for Drax said: “Converting Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire to use sustainable biomass has transformed it into the UK’s largest producer of secure, renewable power.“Drax does not cut down trees. Our pellets are produced from the waste material that is left behind from the construction & furniture making industries, such as sawdust from sawmills, off cuts, tree tops and smaller, diseased, or misshapen trees that have little commercial value & thinnings.“If we didn’t take this material, it would mostly be sent for disposal, burned by the side of the road, or left to rot on the forest floor.”BEIS building coated in paint by activists protesting Drax