By Graham Wroe In August 2024, Reclaim the Power was organising a climate protest camp near Drax Power Station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter. But it never happened as police arrested many of the organisers before it began. The protest camp was to involve “six days of workshops, communal living and direct action toContinueContinue reading “Police waste £3m arresting climate protesters while the real criminals continue to overheat the planet.”
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Case Thrown Out for Drax 15 After £3m Police Operation to Prevent Protest
Last August Reclaim the Power were organising a climate protest camp near Drax. But it never went ahead as police arrested many of the organisers before it was even set up. Today the charges against 15 people, including 5 from Sheffield, accused of ‘going equipped to lock on’ were thrown out on the second dayContinueContinue reading “Case Thrown Out for Drax 15 After £3m Police Operation to Prevent Protest”
Campaigners target Sheffield University’s partnership with Drax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByI8Jga7OKc&ab_channel=ExtinctionRebellionSheffield Sign the petition today This fortnight we’ve seen the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high of 430 parts per million and Arctic sea ice hit a record low. As all eyes have been on Ukraine, Climate Change continues to overheat the planet. Climate scientists have been protesting in AmericaContinueContinue reading “Campaigners target Sheffield University’s partnership with Drax”
Protest in Leeds highlights huge subsidies for wood-burning power station
Sheffield XR members joined climate activists from around the North of England in Leeds to express their anger about continuing subsidy of the Drax power station, which has already received £7bn of public money since 2012 (1). Accompanied by music and Extinction Rebellion’s ‘Discobedience’ dancers, they shared information with people in busy City Square aboutContinueContinue reading “Protest in Leeds highlights huge subsidies for wood-burning power station”
Axe Drax!
27 arrests foil Climate Camp but real climate criminals are given Government subsidies. A week-long climate camp planned by Reclaim the Power, to raise awareness of the climate-damaging wood-burning power station near Selby in North Yorkshire had to be cancelled following the arrest of 22 of the organisers and the confiscation of toilets, wheelchair rampsContinueContinue reading “Axe Drax!”
