I would just like to point out that drax never stopped or slowed down production of electric from europes cleanest coal fired power station

Well lets see, Drax's bucket wheel machines are used to put coal out on to stockpile and collect it in if a train is delayed. So if its not turning, its because all trains are on time!!

As for minimal smoke, Drax might be coal fired (for now) but it is the cleanest coal fired power station in the UK, try looking at any other power station if you want to look for smoke!!

Maybe you should research your facts a bit more indepth before make fools of yourself. Pro-action rather than re-action is the best way, so go buy your own mini wind turbine then you wouldnt need Drax's power

There's no point in going for Drax by itself. What you need to do is go to the source. Close down the coal mines!

Hello, whilst I understand your aims, it would be more beneficial to you as an organisation that if you got your facts correct, then made statements referring to the facts there would be more chance of you been supported in the future if you didn't make claims that were unable to be factually supported. What I mean by these are:-

Trains stopped. Yes the trains were stopped - but by the security forces , the station & the train operators. They were stopped to prevent injury to any potential trespasser who may have accidently colided with rolling stock. The station does NOT need a continous feed of trains to function. Infact there are enough stock levels onsite to operate the station for months without a single train arriving / departing site.

Coal grinders - these are actually bucket wheel machines - there are 2 on site and each is capable of stocking out and reclaiming. Neither machine has to operate continously even when there are no trains so seeing the bucket wheels stopped did not indicate that anything untoward was happening - they only operate when required. The station has coal bunkers that carry several hours worth of coal - so once they are full - the station can operate quite happily without any coal flow from any source.

Smoke from chimney. The video footage actually pointed at the smaller gas turbine chimney - yes there are several of them too. The gas turbines only operate very very occassionally for a variety of reasons so the lack of smoke was highly normal - in fact you were on the day they had actually operated for several weeks. If you viewed the main stack you would have noticed it was very much business as normal.

Also,

Claims made that a slag processing machine was stopped. There are no such machines - there are 2 Boomstackers which do stock out pfa at barlow - but guess what these hardly run now especially in the summertime as the majority of pfa is sold and taken off site for a variety of reasons so losing either of the machines is not a worry to Drax. The only reason 1 machine was running was for maintenence testing reasons. The machine was shut down to prevent potential harm to any unauthorised person on the machine. The other machine was on summer shutdown for maintanance too.

Just thought I set the records straight - and yes I do know what I'm talking about - I know Drax well through a reliable source.

ta

On Thursday 31st August, no coal went from trains or by any other means into Drax, for the whole day. The conveyors that take coal from the stockpiles were also stopped most of the day by people locking on to the bucket wheel machines. Locals (including Drax employees who are are more straightforward than you lot!) came and told us that the station had turned up their filters and were burning cleaner coal than usual, hence less smoke, for the time we were there.

People involved in the camp have done much research, and thought well and long about targets, why etc etc. A bit of solidarity & respect is due, or go somewhere else to snipe.

how to split hairs, funny how this is the only way some people can make their point. since it is known that the police and drax told the media a load of rubbish about how many people got inside, about how they were going to stop this demo blah blah blah, why on earth would you lower your IQ to listen to them???

THE ACTION WAS SUCCESSFUL!!! a thousand cheers to all those activists who felt it was necessary to be at Selby and make their point. The camp worked brilliantly, there were countless examples of the neighbourhoods working together to ensure the activists were looked after and fed and therefore the camp was a two fingered salute to all those who think autonomous spaces don't work.