Filter
Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project

Relevant representations (registration comments)

Search by the person or group making the submission or the content of the submission.

Showing 151 to 200 of 283 representations, newest first.

Results per page View 25 results per page | 50 | View 100 results per page

  • John Walford

    To burn waste bio material is a sound way to generate energy but this is not what happens at Drax. The majority of the fuel used is grown specially to burn. This is just as bad as cutting down... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 August 2022

  • Jonathan Mark Bowler

    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: 18 August 2022

  • Nicola Mary Hall

    Dear Sir / Madam, I seek to object to Drax’s application to append carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. I object as I believe this proposal is far from a sustainable development... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 August 2022

  • Shirley A McCarthy

    The proposal is deployment of unproven technology to an electricity production process that itself damages the environment

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 August 2022

  • William Boggia

    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: 18 August 2022

  • Graham Lingley

    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: 19 August 2022

  • Julie Davies

    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: 19 August 2022

  • Liz Carlton

    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 the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 19 August 2022

  • Rowena Bowles

    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: 19 August 2022

  • Vanessa Kelley

    this process is extremely damaging to the environment and wildlife and humans. It is not an environmental solution, the exact opposite. [Redacted] before I retired I specialised in environmental... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 19 August 2022

  • Andrew Gage

    I have read the Government's proposal to build the Drax power station and the various objections against it. I agree with the following grounds for objection and think that this project should be... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 August 2022

  • Christopher Cotton

    I am concerned about the causes and the serious consequences of climate change in general and of the plans for Drax Power Station, which is one of the old coal fired power stations along the Aire... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 August 2022

  • Ian Derek Morris

    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: 20 August 2022

  • Michelle Hayward

    Please reject this planning application and the fraud it represents. If it goes ahead, the carbon footprint of DRAX, the UK's largest single carbon emitter and biggest burner of trees, is about to get... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 August 2022

  • Pravina 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 object because I believe the proposal is not a sustainable development as... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 August 2022

  • Simon Tozer

    Hello, 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. The... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 20 August 2022

  • Action on Climate in Teignbridge (Action on Climate in Teignbridge)

    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: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 22 August 2022

  • Bill Grayson

    I fail to see why it would be appropriate to deploy carbon capture technology for a power station using genuinely renewable sources of energy when the equivalent amount of carbon is already being... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 22 August 2022

  • Liz Lewis

    I am writing to express my belief that the proposed continuation of the Drax Power Station to produce electricity by burning trees and to receive subsidy to invest in exploring carbon capture is... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 22 August 2022

  • Lowis Charfe

    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: 22 August 2022

  • Rohan Lewis

    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: 22 August 2022

  • Simon MacLardie

    Dear Sir / Madam, Firstly burning trees to produce electricity as happens at the Drax biomass power station is not sustainable or renewable. Newly planted trees take at least 15 years before they... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 22 August 2022

  • Tammy Wong

    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: 22 August 2022

  • Tessa Prudence Jones

    I am writing to object to the application by Drax to add carbon capture technology to two of its wood-burning units. My reasons for objection are as follows: I do not consider that the proposed... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 22 August 2022

  • Colin McCulloch

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

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 23 August 2022

  • Leeds Medact (Leeds Medact)

    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: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 23 August 2022

  • National Highways (National Highways)

    National Highways requests to be an Interested Party on this application. There is potential for the proposals to impact upon the safe and efficient operation of the Strategic Road Network,... Read more

    Submitted by: Other statutory consultees
    Date submitted: 23 August 2022
    Contains attachment(s)

  • Neill Talbot

    The application can and should be rejected: 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... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 23 August 2022

  • Simon Erskine

    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: 23 August 2022

  • Stella de la Sauce

    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: 23 August 2022

  • Anthony Riley

    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: 24 August 2022

  • Colin Groves

    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: 24 August 2022

  • Linda Joan Mary 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: 24 August 2022

  • Roger Van Egmond

    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: 24 August 2022

  • Stephen Johnston

    Drax Power Station is already receiving a huge amount of my tax money under the pretence of being "Renewable" yet is destroying forests around the globe. The huge amount of further taxpayers money to... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 24 August 2022

  • Lesley Whybrow

    I strongly object to this scheme. Using wood to generate energy is not renewable. Although theoretically new trees can be planted to replace those that have been burnt, in practice that isn't... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 25 August 2022

  • Nick Hodgkinson

    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: 25 August 2022

  • Oliver Holliday

    Dear Sir / Madam, I writing to you to share my views on the application by Drax to install carbon capture technology to the existing biomass wood-burning units. First of all, I agree with many groups... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 25 August 2022

  • Rotork PLC (Rotork PLC)

    Rotork PLC supports Drax Limited in its vision to reduce the levels of carbon-dioxide emitted from its operations and specifically its current application to implement carbon-capture technology at its... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 25 August 2022

  • Lily Hughes

    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: 26 August 2022

  • Rebecca Warren

    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: 26 August 2022

  • Roger Moses

    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: 26 August 2022

  • Susan Cooper

    It is essential that we preserve existing tree cover. Large scale tree felling, transportation and burning cannot be carbon neutral and it is certainly not ecologically safe. We are in a climate and... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 28 August 2022

  • Timothy John Root

    Dear Sir / Madam, In view of the climate emergency I 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... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 28 August 2022

  • Barry John Cash

    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

  • Caroline Snow

    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

  • David Stafford

    The burning of so called Bio-Mass is more polluting than the burning of coal, causes a huge carbon footprint due to transportation of the Bio-Mass material across oceans and countries and does... Read more

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

  • Else Panayi

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

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

  • John Busbridge

    Problems with carbon emissions has been known about for more than an hundred years and global warming was recognised back then. We are already seeing the effects of our actions on the climate we have... Read more

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

  • Linda Breary

    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