Organizational Sign-On to Make Dirty Drax Clean Up Their Act

This form allows organizations to add their name to the petition to Make Dirty Drax Clean Up Their Act. To sign-on as an organization, please fill out the form below. If you are an individual and would like to sign, please click here.

We will deliver all petition signatures to Drax during their annual general meeting in April 2024.

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Dear [Drax leadership],

Drax causes significant damage across US Southern forests and communities. Drax destroys more than 59,000 acres of Southern forests every year. Drax can't rely solely on waste wood to meet bioenergy demand. Wood pellet production releases carbon at every stage. Drax's plants release toxic air pollution and harmful dust in surrounding communities. When burned, wood pellets release more carbon emissions than coal.

Drax's air and noise pollution is harming residents living near facilities. We petition Drax to take immediate action:

1.Establish a Good Neighbor Fund. Help improve the quality of life harms that your operations cause. This includes, but is not limited to, funding:

  • Air purifiers and filters for affected communities for life.
  • New community health centers in affected communities.
  • A study of the health impacts and associated treatments/costs in affected communities. An independent stakeholder must perform this study. The state health department or a university public health program are suitable.

2. Stop Air & Noise Pollution:

  • Notify the community and regulators of any pollution violations.
  • Stop exceeding air pollution limits.
  • Reduce emissions of toxic chemicals as required by the Clean Air Act.
  • Install air quality monitors with filters. They must be within a quarter mile of your operating and proposed facilities.
  • Install fugitive dust controls at all your operating and proposed facilities.
  • Install Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEMS) for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and other toxins.
  • Stop operation of any facility that is unable to stay within pollution limits.
  • Limit nighttime operations of heavy equipment between the hours of 8pm to 6am. Use noise abatement structures. Install noise barriers such as tree buffers and vegetated berms.

3. Stop accepting government renewable energy grants and subsidies.
4. Stop expansion. This includes BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage) facilities.
5. Stop sourcing from natural forests.
6. Stop claiming that bioenergy is a “carbon-neutral”, clean, and renewable energy.

Your corporation claims it's serious about providing clean and renewable energy. Take corporate responsibility. Act now to address these concerns.


Join the organizations that have already signed on!

198 methods 
350 Seattle 
350 Triangle 
AbibiNsroma Foundation 
ACFAN: Athens County's Future Action Network 
Alabama Interfaith Power & Light
Beyond Extreme Energy
Biodiversity Conservation Center 
Biofuelwatch 
Biomass Action Group 
Black Warrior Riverkeeper 
Blue Dalian 
Cascadia Climate Action Now 
Chatham Research Group 
CleanAIRE NC 
Clean Water for North Carolina 
Climate Communications Coalition
Climate Crisis Working Group of Moore County, NC 
Coastal Plain Conservation Group
Colectivo VientoSur
Concern Citizens of Northampton County 
Concerned Citizens of Richmond County 
Cypress Group of the NC Sierra Club 
Cultivator, Inc. 
Dogwood Alliance 
Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition 
Earth Thrive 
Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO)
Environmental Protection Information Center 
Fellowship of Scientists and Engineers 
Fern 
Forest Keeper 
Forum Ökologie & Papier 
French Film Festival - Richmond, Virginia 
Friends of the Earth Japan 
GASP 
Georgia Conservation Voters 
HTM 
Landelijk Netwerk Bossen- en Bomenbescherming.nl 
Leefmilieu 
Mighty Earth 
Mississippi Rising Coalition 
Mountain Maryland Movement 
NAACP Charlotte- Mecklenburg Branch 
Natural Resources Defense Council 
Nature Nova Scotia 
NC Climate Solutions Coalition 
Pivot Point 
Protect Our Woods 
Rachel Carson Council 
RESTORE: The North Woods 
Sandhills Cooperation Association 
Save Estonia's Forests
Solutions For Our Climate
Southern Coalition for Social Justice 
Southern Forests Conservation Coalition 
SouthWings
Stand.earth
Stop Burning Trees Coalition 
Tennessee Heartwood 
Terra Advocati 
The People's Justice Council 
Trend Asia 
U2U 
UK Friends of the Earth (Hull) 
Young Peoples Guild

*This list is updated periodically, not in real time.

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