News Drax refuse to meet climate campaigners
Drax Power Station representatives declined to meet Christian Aid campaigners as they passed the power station on Friday.
The campaigners are walking 1,000 miles across the country to draw attention to climate change.
The walk aims to tell all major polluters along the route about what they are doing to the environment and to draw attention to the severe damage that climate change is already doing in countries where Christian Aid work.
One of the climate change marchers, Mohamed Adow from Kenya, told of his disappointment at the rejections from both Drax Group and Scottish and Southern Energy, who own the Ferrybridge power station near Knottingley.
"It is quite disheartening that the major emitters of carbon in the UK will not meet us. Their actions, their emissions are hurting us," he said.
"Kenya has been ravaged by climate shocks, shocks that emanate from climate change. Part of it is due to the burning of fossil fuels. Countless people have lost their lives and their livelihoods, had their lives devastated."
He also pointed out that he hoped consumers would force Drax and SSE to reduce their carbon emissions by demanding renewable energy.
Drax power station is the biggest single source of carbon emissions in Britain, with an output capacity of 4,000 megawatts.
They recently promised to clean up their act by 2009 by burning 10 per cent biomass, a reduction of three million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Published on 16th August 2007 in News.
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