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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