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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Power move: UK ministers eye big energy profits for tax raid

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The Drax power station in North Yorkshire is among companies that have benefited from historic green energy subsidies. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters

Dressed in overalls with “leave it in the ground” scrawled on their backs, climate protesters shovelled coal over the side of a goods train bound for the Drax power station in 2008.

It is now 14 years on from the train “hijack” and government officials are considering their own raid on the North Yorkshire power station – this time on the company’s finances.

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