 To accompany this phase out, the UK government issued 470 million pounds to Drax to begin its conversion from coal to wood pellets, and protestors of Drax also claim that Drax receives more than 1 million pounds in subsidies per day to add to the wood pellets conversion efforts.The #AxeDrax Campaign and its efforts have provoked a response from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change

This in turn sparked the social media campaign that became the #AxeDrax campaign on social media outlets such as Twitter, where Biofuelwatch and news outlets such as the Ecologist have been promoting the demonstrations and encouraging people to join in the demonstrations.As of 21 December 2017, the government of UK declared its increase in bioenergy production by almost 23 percent compared the year 2016, due to increased availability at Drax.