owner Drax The power plant abandoned its annual meeting of the shareholders after a confrontation with the activists who organized a protest against the burning of trees to generate electricity.
The Guardian realizes that between 10 and 20 activists were forcibly removed from London’s place after the FTSE 250 board challenged its use of the wooden biomass in the north Yorkshire Facility.
The demonstration included groups claiming that Drax contributed to air pollution in low -income black societies in the United States, where Pele’s production facilities run the biomus.
Drax has been criticized by green groups Claiming billions in renewable energy subsidies To generate electricity by burning wooden cells. The company claims that wood is sustainable, but it was asked He paid 25 million pounds to the regulator last year After I found that Drax provided inaccurate data about her cells.
The Board of Directors described the end of the meeting at approximately 11:30 am on Thursday, before many shareholders were able to put questions managers, and blamed the “threatened behavior” of activists.
The shareholders have been waived CompanyThe claim that the activists “strongly disrupted” the meeting on several occasions, claimed that the campaign was designed to silence the opposition.
“We have come a long way to attend this meeting today, and unfortunately we were not allowed to speak,” said Crystal Martin, the environmental activist who joined the meeting of the Mississippi in the United States.
Martin said that she was absent from the beginning of the meeting after security officials prevented her from entering the place to carry a laptop, and the meeting was closed before she could raise her concerns with the council.
She said, “It was a deliberate and deliberate attempt to silence our voice. I know I am the most prominent – I am a black girl from the Mississippi state – so I felt that their actions were intentional.”
Catherine Eagland, another green campaign that traveled from Mississippi to the meeting, said that she felt “insulting and frustrated” after “treated as a terrorist” when trying to enter the meeting. She claimed that she was initially prevented from entering to carry the iPad and finally entered after the shareholder voting ended.
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“It was a non -violent protest,” said Eagland. “There was no reason to close the meeting. There was no way for anyone to feel that it is not safe.”
A spokesman for Drax said that the meeting was closed after the official work of the meeting and decisions, and that “many people” had the opportunity to put questions in the board of directors.
“Unfortunately, activists have disrupted the power of Q+A on multiple occasions. As a result of this threatened behavior, to protect the safety of shareholders and employees, our president made a decision to conclude the meeting early,” the spokesman said.
