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  • Mark Tonks

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Mr. Christopher Symonds

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Mrs Ruby Homawala

    Capturing and compressing CO2 takes a lot of energy – 28% of all the energy produced by each unit, according to Drax but possibly even more – so there’s a high risk of the resultant shortfall in... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Mrs Ruth Webb

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture  technology to two of its wood-burning units.  I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Steve Smith

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Susan Francis

    I wish to object to Drax's application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable development as defined in... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Susan Poole

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 29 August 2022

  • Alexander (Alick) Munro

    I am not aware that that the carbon cost of forestry, milling and transport of woodchip is included in assessing the overall benefit of Drax. I am not aware that Drax burns only waste wood. Waste wood... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Carol Ann Oladipo

    This scheme will have a huge and destructive environmental impact, and is not the best way forward. Our planet is being destroyed at an ever inceasing speed, and we are not meeting agreed targets. how... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Denise Dowdell-Stent

    Good afternoon, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable development... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Dominic Sbresni

    Transportation of raw materials over long distances, high energy costs creating products such as wood pellets, and furthermore burning these highly controversial pellets due to the high cost and... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Michael Ellard

    Cutting down forest to use as biomass is a disgrace. Government keeps telling us to plant trees when they use other peoples trees to use as an expensive source of power.

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Mike Perkins

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Robert Frank

    Drax is one of the biggest polluter companies in UK history. From its fracking proposals to large-scale wood-burning and exponentially multiplying carbon emissions in the UK, leading to the worsening... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Robert Seymour

    Biomass power generation is mainly dependant on imported wood pellets from USA produced by destruction of woodlands and forests which will take decades to recover, if replanted, to their current level... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Sara Ellis

    The national infrastructure project is not to my liking biomass is not green Forests are destroyed to gather fuel for biomass large areas of forest will be destroyed. The quantity of biomass burnt in... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Sophie Barber

    Earth is warmer than ever before and every day that DRAX power station continues to burn Wood for fuel it warms the atmosphere more. Trees are essential to sequester Carbon, by cutting down and... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Brian David Webster on behalf of Webster Family (Webster Family )

    Denuding virgin forest, processing into wood pellets before shipping long distances by land and sea comes at unquantified environmental costs. Clearing the Drax site and repurposing to capture... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 30 August 2022

  • Dilys Beaumont

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 31 August 2022

  • James E Hewitt

    I object to the application. It seems ambiguous or misleading in a number of instances. These include the proposal's energy penalty, the unroven ability of the technology proposed to capture the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 31 August 2022

  • Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)

    We object to the purpose of this application due to concerns about carbon capture technology which have been articulated by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) and other NGO’s, relating... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 31 August 2022

  • Canal & River Trust (Canal & River Trust)

    The Canal & River Trust (“the Trust”) are the charity who look after and bring to life 2000 miles of canals & rivers. Our waterways contribute to the health and wellbeing of local communities and... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Cut Carbon Not Forests (Cut Carbon Not Forests)

    The Cut Carbon Not Forests (CCNF) coalition represents environmental and social justice groups from the U.S., Canada, and the UK concerned about the impacts of the UK’s wood-based bioenergy industry... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Emma Downing-Warren

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Environment Agency (Environment Agency)

    Dear Sir/Madam DRAX POWER STATION BIOENERGY WITH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE EXTENSION DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER: RELEVANT REPRESENTATION BY THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY. Drax Power Limited have advised that... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • GDPR Protected 001

    I object to this project as I stand against the burning of trees that Drax is proposing to do, I also object to the fact that they are labeling it as an eco freindly solution

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Guy Johnson

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Jamie Russell

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Kirsten de Vos

    I’m very concerned that we currently give subsidies to firms like Drax. Burning wood is NOT sustainable. Trees take decades to capture and sequester CO2 and when burned release it into the atmosphere... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • National Grid (National Grid)

    Relevant Representation of National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc in respect of the DRAX Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage DCO (the “Project”) This relevant representation is submitted on... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 1 September 2022

  • Aidan Francis

    The scientific community do not believe this unproven technology will work. This is purely a greenwashing exercise by the worst polluter in the UK. Furthermore they want to secure billions from the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Associated British Ports (Associated British Ports)

    Please see email attachment from 2 September 2022.

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Jessica Upton

    We are in a climate crisis NOW. We can see the effects of it already across the world. England has got off lightly so far but it won’t escape unless we lead in carbon emission reduction & this... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Kathryn Pybus

    Negative health impacts on workers and wider community. Local environmental impacts on important wildlife sites. Large amount of public money already spent on Europes largest Carbon emitter that... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Martin Roberts

    This is a complete con and waste if money, better off putting the funds to build into renewable energy sources

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Martin Stern

    I am complaing about the drax progect

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Pat Temple-Murray

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022

  • Southern Environmental Law Center (Southern Environmental Law Center)

    Please see representation attached.

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 2 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Ben Long

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 3 September 2022

  • Harry Partridge

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 3 September 2022

  • Hull Friends of the Earth (Hull Friends of the Earth)

    I am writing on behalf of Hull Friends of the Earth (HFOE) in objection to the current application by Drax to fit carbon capture to two wood-burning units. The following summarises our reasons for... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 3 September 2022

  • Kirsten Ellis

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 3 September 2022

  • Adam Myers

    Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to register my objection to Drax’s application to add BECCS carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning towers. My objection is based in my belief that the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 4 September 2022

  • Deborah Clare Cobbett

    Many aspects of the proposal concern me, not least the highly questionable claim that burning trees is a sustainable way to produce energy when this is causing deforestation around the world,... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 4 September 2022

  • Julie Williamson

    burning trees for energy, in the short term, emits more carbon dioxide than coal or gas. It is adding to the climate emergency, which many politicians are choosing to ignore, as they continue to put... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 4 September 2022

  • Sophie Curtis

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 4 September 2022

  • Amari Young

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Andrew Morrice

    I am concerned that this project relies on faulty CCS technology and will worsen the climate crisis, with devastating effects for all of us.

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Biofuelwatch (Biofuelwatch)

    I am writing on behalf of the environmental organisation, Biofuelwatch, to respond to the application by Drax to fit carbon capture equipment to two of the power station’s wood-burning units.... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group (Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group)

    Firstly, we would argue that BECCS technology should be considered as a separate technology in its own right, rather than merely as an addition to an already consented biomass burning installation.... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Carla Smith

    The main issues with this project: burning wood for energy increases the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere. Cutting down trees to create energy reduces forests ability to act as a carbon sink.... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Carolyn Whitehead

    I would like to object to the planning application for the Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project (BE with CC&S), on four grounds: the potential harm to the health and well-being of... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Climate Emergency Planning and Policy (Climate Emergency Planning and Policy)

    Dr Andrew Boswell, Climate Emergency Planning and Policy I am an independent environmental consultant specialising in climate science, policy, and law. I object to Drax’s application to add carbon... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • CPRE North and East Yorkshire (CPRE North and East Yorkshire)

    PRE North and East Yorkshire ('CPRENEY') would like to register their strong objection to this application for a DCO to be awarded for the Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project ('the... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • James Pitt

    Burning wood increases toxic emissions. Carbon capture technology is unproven at scale. Subsidies to Drax would be more effective if used on insulation in homes, workplaces and community facilities.

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Joseph Irving

    Dear Sir / Madam, I would like to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its tree-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Julia Mary Stewart

    Burning wood is not environmentally friendly by any stretch of the imagination.

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Just Transition Wakefield (Just Transition Wakefield)

    I am writing on behalf of Just Transition Wakefield, to comment on the planning application from Drax Power to retrofit CCS units to two furnaces. We believe the following issues are relevant and... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Katy Brown

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Leeds Trades Union Council (Leeds Trades Union Council)

    As a trades union council it is our policy to support a just transition for workers from high emissions industries into jobs that can actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions whilst providing secure... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • BDB Pitmans LLP (BDB Pitmans LLP ) on behalf of National Grid Carbon Limited (National Grid Carbon Limited)

    This is a Relevant Representation submitted by National Grid Carbon Limited (NGCL) requesting that NGCL is treated as an Interested Party throughout the Examination process of the Development Consent... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Natural England (Natural England)

    Natural England will provide detailed comments on the proposed project, relating to our key areas of remit: • Internationally designated sites • Nationally designated sites • Protected species •... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • North Yorkshire County Council and Selby District Council (North Yorkshire County Council and Selby District Council)

    Relevant Representation of North Yorkshire County Council and Selby District Council The following representation is made on behalf of North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) and Selby District Council... Read more

    Submitted by: Local authorities
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Pete Keal

    I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable development as defined in... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Richard Michael Blaber

    BECCS is a nonsense. Chopping down trees, then burning the wood, to provide heat to drive turbines for electricity, and storing the emitted CO2, rather than allowing it to escape to the atmosphere, is... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Simon Bowens

    Please see representation attached to email sent from [Redacted]

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Simon Oldridge

    The Government’s Net Zero Strategy is dangerously reliant on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS). According to the latest science, these technologies will make the situation worse, wasting... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Stephen Grace

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Stop Burning Trees Coalition (Stop Burning Trees Coalition)

    Dear Sir/Madam, As the Stop Burning Trees Coalition (SBTC), we are highly concerned with a number of issues within Drax’s Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) application. Drax’s application... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Veronica Clark

    Dear Sir / Madam, I wish to object to Drax’s application to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I am objecting because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Wakefield Trades Council (Wakefield Trades Council )

    I am writing on behalf of Wakefield Trades Council to comment on the planning application from Drax Power to retrofit CCS units to two furnaces. Because we have climate change policy, and because we... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • West Yorkshire Eco Educators Network (West Yorkshire Eco Educators Network )

    I am writing on behalf of West Yorkshire Eco Educators Network to comment on the BECCS planning application from Drax Power for a number of reasons. As educators our concern is always for the future... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Yorkshire and Humber Climate Justice Coalition (Yorkshire and Humber Climate Justice Coalition)

    We are a coalition of groups in Yorkshire and the Humber concerned about the need to help workers transition to jobs that reduce GG emissions, and protect the health of people and environment in the... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 5 September 2022

  • Michael Tranter

    I was told you will attach my submission, here it is again for reference: I wish to make representation regarding the planning: Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project. I tried to... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 7 September 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Leeds City Council (Leeds City Council)

    Dear Madam or Sir, On 30th August 2022 the Applicant (DRAX Power Ltd) informed Leeds City Council that they had not been notified about the opportunity to make Relevant Representations on the above... Read more

    Submitted by: Local authorities
    Date submitted: 13 September 2022

  • Hargreaves Industrial Services Ltd (Hargreaves Industrial Services Ltd)

    Following review of the Drax Power Station Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Extension Development Consent Order Application, we confirm that we are a current supplier at Drax Power Station... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 15 September 2022

  • Scarborough Borough Council (Scarborough Borough Council)

    The study areas for each environmental impact of the Drax BECCS proposal include no land within Scarborough Borough. Therefore, Scarborough Borough Council acknowledge that the Drax BECCS proposal... Read more

    Submitted by: Local authorities
    Date submitted: 28 September 2022

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council (East Riding of Yorkshire Council)

    I write in connection with the Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project (“the Scheme”), on behalf of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council (“the Council”) in its capacity as a landowner... Read more

    Submitted by: Local authorities
    Date submitted: 13 January 2023
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Roger Pickering on behalf of Investors in Court House Farm/Delta Enterprise Park (Investors in Court House Farm/Delta Enterprise Park)

    Our representation and comments are restricted to the Change Request that was accepted by the ExA on 13th December 2022 and in particular to "area 4" as shown on the plan entitled "DRAX BECCS DCO"... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 January 2023

  • Kevin Robinson

    Objection to Compulsory Acquisition in respect to proposed provision request ( App Ref EN010120) It can be shown by studies and evidence that the Carbon Capture and storage system proposed will... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 January 2023

  • Natural England (Natural England)

    Natural England’s Relevant Representations for the Proposed Changes (PC-02) Summary of Natural England’s Advice Natural England’s advice is that, in relation to identified nature conservation issues... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 9 February 2023

  • Derby/South Derbyshire Unfriends the Burning Earth (Derby/South Derbyshire Unfriends the Burning Earth)

    We object to the compulsory acquisition of additional land for the incorrectly named, totally experimental high-carbon and polluting 'Drax power station bioenergy with carbon capture, and storage... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 12 February 2023

  • Northern Gas Networks (Northern Gas Networks)

    Firstly, we should confirm that this response is in relation to notice of amendments received by post, dated 3rd May 2023 that informs us we have until 11th June 2023 to comment, whilst this form only... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 8 June 2023
    Contains attachment(s)